Greetings
John and doves,
With September 23rd and Rosh Hashanah coming up this week I
thought I would rerun an article I wrote back in March about
"no one knows the day or hour" and how not only can we know
the day but, where I believe that the Lord even tells us
what hour He's coming. I'm including another one by
Mark Taylor that seems very Timely I hope everyone enjoys
it. See you soon
Charles
Holler Sr
No
Man Knoweth The Day Or Hour
By Mike Taylor
“But of that
day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which
are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father”
(Mark 13:32).
But of that
day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven,
but my Father only” (Matthew 24:36).
For the last
two thousand years, there has been much theological
interpretation of what Jesus was saying in these verses
recorded by the men who sat at Jesus feet:
“And as he
sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him
privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And
what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the
world?” (Matthew 24:3)
As you read
either chapter found in the gospels, Jesus explains to His
disciples what the signs will be of the end of the age and
His return. Note one thing as you read this chapter: Jesus
was living as a mortal man -- God in the flesh, a Jewish man
that was speaking to other Jewish men who had customs and
idioms that modern men must come to understand, in context
of what Jesus was teaching to His followers. His disciples
were going to have to teach these very things to the rest of
the world, so they would have to be able to grasp what these
signs were. So Jesus used familiar speech patterns or idioms
that each were easy to understand to convey their meaning.
I want you
to focus on one passage that Jesus spoke of and it starts
the sermon off with what can only be described an idiom that
any Jewish man of those times would have understood
immediately because it was part of their culture─their very
life─and unless we understand these idioms of speech, then
the meaning gets lost in translation. What was Jesus
referring to when He made the statement, “no man knoweth the
day or the hour?”
Our Lord was
saying that He was going to return on a certain day of the
Jewish calendar that was celebrated each year. It was a
phrase that was used to illustrate what the event held to
each of them listening. It was a most Holy Day and a special
Sabbath of worship that was celebrated in the fall of the
year and was signified by the blowing of trumpets, which was
to mean the “return of the King.”
Let us
examine this topic, which is important to each of us in
these last days with a proper explanation of all points,
which I will cover. I shall split this article into two
parts. This first part will deal with a day, which I
believe, Jesus was giving reference to and when all of His
church should be watching for as the end grows ever closer.
The second part of this article will be focused on signs
that were given by God, as it was in the “days of Noah” and
an event that could signal that the day is upon us and we
must be getting our houses in order and develop an urgency
to reach as many people as possible to get them into the
kingdom of God through belief in our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.
The next
article will be titled “Blood Moons Rising/Day of the Lord.”
It is a sign in the heavens to us, which may I repeat, may
have a connection to the day I wish to talk about in this
article.
But note one
thing, I make no prediction of the Lord's return, as we
cannot know for proof positive, but am referencing Scripture
that gives us the information that points to a specific set
of days as clues in His Word. These are found in the New
Testament, as well as the Old Testament. These are
expressions of culture at the time Jesus and His disciples
lived in and were ingrained into their lives. Now back to
the focus of this sermon.
God's Plan
for Mankind
God has
given us a plan to show how He wishes to draw men unto
Himself. Many have discarded this knowledge as being Jewish
(to their great error) and having no relevance to the modern
church. But what if I told you that God has used each of
these signs to reveal the timing of the first coming of His
Son into the world, to die and to be resurrected and will
use these signs to announce the Second Advent of His Son
coming back into this world leading up to Him ruling and
reigning for 1000 years? Would you stand up and take notice?
I urge you to take due diligence and study the Scriptures
and these words I give you.
The old
saying, “Don't believe me, believe your Bible” is what I
want you to do. Put this information next to the text. Look
in the Strong’s Concordance and find the original Greek and
Hebrew words and how they are expressed. In other words, do
you homework and your own study. These commandments coming
from the voice of Almighty God gave us God's appointments
with the salvation of mankind. They show exactly what has
happened in the past, and will most definitely fulfill His
plan in the near future. Let us dive right into what God
gave us nearly four thousand years ago to reveal His plan
for the salvation of mankind.
“Speak unto
the children of Israel, and say unto them, concerning the
feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are MY feasts.
These are
the Lord's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are
to proclaim at their appointed times” (Leviticus chapter
23:2, 4, emphasis added).
Note that
God says that these are the “Lord's” feasts not belonging to
any one people, not the gentile nations, not the Jews, not
the Hebrew children, not any other people but they belonged
to Him. In another Scripture is emphasized, “These are MY
feasts.” Now some think that the word “feast” denotes
something with food. It has nothing to do with food, but
denotes a commandment for a gathering of His children, His
people to acknowledge and worship Him, as a “Holy
Convocation” or commanded meeting time/gathering. To the
people of the time of ancient Israel these “feasts” meant
one thing, which was descriptive of their national
relationship with Jehovah post Exodus leading into their
agricultural life and had specific date events that were
connected to each day or set of days.
But to the
modern day church of the living God, it means something
entirely different. We are not Israel, but each of these
days pointed to one thing and One Person─Jesus Christ. To
His church it points to the historically completed events
that God has already accomplished or one-half of His plan
for the salvation of mankind. He waits to complete His work
and fulfill His plan to redeem His creation to live with Him
for all eternity. These are prophetic rehearsals of God's
Son coming into the world the first time as a suffering
servant and ultimately our Savior and High Priest, but the
second time or noted by the last half of these commanded
days, as the conquering King and Lord of lords. He came
first as a Lamb but the next time He sets foot on this
earth, He will come as a conquering warrior, a roaring Lion
of Judah─full of the wrath of Almighty God.
To describe
His plan in language that we can understand, God chose to
bring His Son to come into the world to complete the first
part of His plan on the exact days of His appointed times
the Bible calls, His “feasts” that were given to Moses. They
were divided up into observances: four in the spring of the
year, and in the fall of the year the remaining three. The
spring appointed days were Passover, Feast of Unleavened
Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost. What happened on these
days that were completed on the exact date that these times
of worship were given by God in the Old Testament and
completed in the New Testament that affects the church?
Passover
Jesus offered Himself as the sinless Lamb of God. His
shedding of His blood was for the salvation of the world and
the payment for our sins.
Feast of
Unleavened Bread His death and burial removed our sins
outside of the camp.
Feast of
First Fruits On the first day after the Sabbath on this
Passover week, the priest waved a sheaf of barley in the
temple as an offering of first fruits of the harvest, and
simultaneously, Jesus was offering Himself to the Father in
heaven as the First Fruits of those born of the dead in
resurrection and full-payment for the sins of the world.
Pentecost or
the Feast of Weeks Fifty days from First Fruits, The Holy
Spirit came in power exactly on time! Three thousand were
saved and the church was birthed!
Note, that
Jesus completed His act of salvation by His death and burial
on the exact days of these original God-given appointed
times. He sent God's Holy Spirit, as our comforter,
counselor and advocate on the exact day that was given in
the Old Testament and the church was born. These are called
God's spring Holy Days and they have significant impact on
the Christian's life and his understanding of what has
happened in the past and what is coming in the near future.
Believe one thing, God is always right on time.
He does
nothing by chance, but gives His Word in power, to inform
us of His plans and to all those He has called in these last
days to proclaim His truths. Does it not stand to reason and
totally logical and scriptural, that if He fulfilled His
plan of salvation for all men on the appointed times of
God's plan for Man on THE day in these springs observances,
that He will fulfill His plan beginning at His return to
gather His church, and to set up His kingdom to rule and
reign for 1000 years on these exact days appointed?
As He
completed His redemptive act on the very day appointed, He
will be right on time with His second entrance into the
affairs of men in the chosen day appointed as noted by the
coming fall feast, known as Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and
Tabernacles, as God has had a plan. It is a wise man that
seeks to understand His ways and His plans by making
preparations to be ready when they are, “right at the door.”
LET ME
EXPLAIN SOMETHING
Returning to
the phrase, “no man knoweth the day or the hour” we still
need to answer the question: What was Jesus saying that the
apostles were completely familiar with? From the explanation
above, I think you can see how these days mean something
totally different to the church, than it did to Israel when
they were given on Mt. Sinai. What significance does the
remaining Holy Days of God have for you and me?
The three
fall festivals start on the first day signified by the new
moon on Tishrei, the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar.
This is the only holy day marked by the new moon and is set
apart for that reason as special. All other festivals are
set or counted by the full moon as Passover, Unleavened
Bread, First Fruits, and even Pentecost are counted from the
full moon of Nissan, which is in the early spring.
So the
Spirit of GOD is pointing to this festival as a certain day!
This is separated by months from the last feast and must be
carefully witnessed by men of great authority in the land of
Israel. It was a very involved process that must be
guaranteed by two witnesses to it's beginning reported to
the Sanhedrin during the time of ancient Israel. Since it
must be authorized, as they called it, “sanctified” before
the month's activities could begin, the appointed time is
stretched into two days, as “No man knoweth the day or the
hour.”
It is the
only Feast Day that is named as such, because they just
didn't know which day was the correct day. Hence the quote
is connected to this day. Why two days? It is because that
with the days counted of 29.5 from new moon to the next, no
one is sure if it's the 29th or the 30th day of the month,
so to be sure, they count both. To further explain the
reasoning why two days, I went to the Internet and looked up
the reason. What follows is an explanation:
Yom Teruah
is the only festival that no man knows when exactly it will
occur. This is due to the fact that it begins on the new
moon. The new moon was sanctified when two witnesses see the
new moon and attest to it before the Sanhedrin in the
Temple.This sanctification could happen during either of two
days, depending on when the witnesses come. Since no one
knew when the witnesses would come, no one knew when the
Feast of Trumpets would start.
A new moon
is called “rosh chodesh” in Hebrew. As mentioned, new moons
must be validated in Israel by two witnesses who will watch
the dark black sky at the end of the moon cycle for the
first glimmer of the moon to reappear. This is the beginning
of the thirty-day cycle, which determines Israel’s months.
(Moon is the word from which we get months.) As soon as the
new moon is sighted and verified by two witnesses then the
Sanhedrin or the High Priest will send runners from the east
to the west with signal lights to be lit on high mountains
to inform the people that the day has been sanctified, and
they can begin their counting for the month and the Feast of
Trumpets and the worship of God can begin. They are said to
run “like lightning” This highlighted and bold statement
“like lightning” is another Jewish idiom that any Jewish
person of the time would instantly recognize and it is
connected to the fall observance of the Feast of Trumpets.
Psalm
18.11-14: “He made darkness [the new moon on Feast of
Trumpets] His secret place [the day no man knows the hour];
His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick
clouds of the skies [describing the Day of the Lord]. At the
brightness that was before Him his thick clouds passed, hail
stones and coals of fire. The LORD also thundered in the
heavens, and the Highest gave His voice [the sound of the
trumpet – the shofar]; hail stones and coals of fire. Yea,
He sent out His arrows, and scattered them; and He shot out
lightning and discomfited them.”
There are
numerous passages that use the same Greek word in Strongs,
#796 “astrape, or astropo #797 meaning a bright shining
light, a glare, lightning, bright, shining. Other Scriptures
where the word is used are:
Luke 10.18:
“And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning
(astrape) fall from heaven.”
Which would
make sense, as when God brings His people home, Satan is
kicked out of heaven and comes down to earth with his demon
hordes.
Jesus said:
Matthew
24.27: “For as the lightning [astrope] comes out of the
east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be.”
Luke 17.24:
“For as the lightning,that lightens out of the one part
under heaven, shines unto the other part under heaven (the
east to the west); so shall also the Son of man be in his
day.”
These
passages all describe the beginning of the Day of the Lord
and the Feast of Trumpets.
WHICH
TRUMPET ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
There is a
direct connection with this God-ordained observance that
Paul alluded to in 1Corinthians and many people do not
understand that Paul is talking about the Feast of Trumpets
when during this time it is historically noted that 100
trumpets were blown and then a long, louder blast of the
shofar and a silver trumpet called the “last trump” then the
“great trump” respectively.
“Behold, I
shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).
“For this we
say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are
alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep. 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: 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” (1
Thessalonians 4:15-17)
We cannot go
to the book of Revelation and say that the trumpet of the
seventh angel is what Paul is referring to (Revelation
11:15) as John had not even wrote his testimony yet when
Paul wrote his in these two passages. This is the last trump
(of the 7th angel) that many people try and make this
connection in error, because they don't understand the
context. One they labor to connect the two, as they believe
that the church will experience the same horrors that the
rebellious nations will be subjected to right along with
everyone else.
I speak it
again as in past messages posted and to further drum home
this truth, since the Tribulation is designed to purge and
refine Israel as silver is in the fire because of their
centuries of unbelief, and the nations are destroyed because
of their rebellion and unrepentant lawlessness, what is the
point of refining the church during the same period? Was the
blood of Jesus not good enough? Did He not do what God
intended His perfect sacrifice to accomplish? Then why is
there a conflict? The answer is: There is no conflict, only
a lack of understanding on our part.
No, Paul is
speaking of a trumpet that will herald an emotion of joy
unspeakable and full of glory for His church redeemed and
starting the judgment upon the nations, but the seventh
angel who blows his trumpet signifies the fulfillment of
unspeakable horror and untold death and destruction. They
are two separate references to a trumpet and not the same
one.
In further
explanation of Jewish history, in the first century when
Paul wrote these words, the last trump (shofar) meant a
specific day of the year, as he was describing. In Judaism,
there are three trumpets that have a name: the first trump,
the last trump, and then the great trump, which is a silver
trumpet. Each one of these trumpets indicates a specific day
in the Jewish year. The first trump is blown on the Feast of
Pentecost (Exodus 19:19).
It
proclaimed that God had betrothed Himself to Israel. The
last trump is synonymous with Rosh Hashanah, according to
Theodore Gaster in his book, Festivals of the Jewish Year,
in his chapter on Rosh Hashanah. Herman Kieval also states
the same thing in his book,The High Holy Days in the chapter
on the shofar. The great trumpet is blown on Yom Kippur (Day
of Atonement), which will herald the return of Jesus back to
the earth to rule and reign and put down all rebellion
(Matthew 24:31).
In between
these two events of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the ten
days of awe, which in Jewish tradition are the days God
judges mankind. These would correlate to the Tribulation
period and a time of intense judgment on the earth. Got
that? First and last trump on Pentecost, then Rosh Hashanah
or Feast of Trumpets respectively, followed by a period of
ten days of judgment, and then the great trumpet blown on
the Day of Atonement, or AT-ONE-MENT with God or the return
of Jesus Christ with His saints to reign and rule.
The first
and last trump relate to the two horns of the ram, which
according to God's Word, was caught in the thicket on Mount
Moriah when Abraham was ready to slay Isaac and offer him up
as a burnt offering. This ram became the substitute for
Isaac even as Jesus became the substitute for us and
provided life for us through His death.
The last
Feast day to be completed is the Feast of Tabernacles, which
God has said in His Word, Zechariah chapter 14, that all men
would come to the Jerusalem to worship Him at HIS Feast of
Tabernacles.
“And it
shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the
nations which came up against Jerusalem, shall even go up
from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts,
and to keep the feast of tabernacles” (Zechariah 14:16).
It is the
only feast observance left, as all have been completed and
fulfilled by our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
WE ARE
CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT
Paul makes a
reference that we are not in darkness, in 1Thessalonians:
“But of the
times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I
write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they
shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh
upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they
shall not escape.
But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake
you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of
darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let
us watch and be sober. For they that sleep in the night; and
they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
We are not
in darkness. So as we see the day approaching we will not be
surprised, like the rest of the world while they are in the
dark. We are in the light, as God has shined His light on
our hearts through His Holy Spirit. God gave us signs in His
Word and signs in the heavens that will alert us that the
time is at hand.
Remember the
words of Jesus in Matthew 24.36-44:
“But as the
days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be.
For as in
the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not
until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be.
Then shall
two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other
left.
Two women
shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and
the other left.
But know
this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what
watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would
not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye
also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of
man cometh.”
Only Noah
knew of the appointed time. He didn't know the day, but he
knew the season, so he worked on the ark as God commanded.
God says that they were all surprised and swept away by the
flood, but Noah was not surprised. Also, in this passage as
the goodman of the house, we are to watch. We may not know
the hour, but we know the season. But note one thing
concerning Noah and his family...when he and his sons began
to build the ark, some one-hundred plus years prior to the
beginning of the flood, they had no idea what day the rains
would come, but as the time grew closer and closer and they
were a week out from the rains starting...what did God say
to Noah?
Genesis 7.4:
“For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the
earth forty days and forty nights; and every living
substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face
of the earth.”
God made it
known to His servant when the time was right for him to know
that He would know even, the day.
Now Noah had
not known for all those years what day it would be that God
would fulfill His judgment on the earth but he believed. But
when it was only seven days hence, God told Noah straight
out the exact day He would bring it to pass, just not the
hour. What is my point in this reference? Some 2000 years
ago, when Jesus our Lord and Savior made these statement “no
man knoweth the day or the hour” identifying that He would
return on a future Feast of Trumpets that all these men
surely recognized, they had no idea what year it would
be...just a day in the season of a future year. Now 2000
years down the annals of time, we are as Noah, children of
the light who see the day approaching, and God is telling us
to expect Him to even narrow it down to a small window of
time. How will He do that? He told us that there would be
signs in the heavens -- in the moon, in the sun and in the
stars.
Revelation
chapter 3.10:
“Because
thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep
thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all
the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth”
As the day
approaches, the gathering of God's people -- keeping them
from the hour of temptation -- will trigger the Day of the
Lord, but first the church's removal from the Earth. Some
feel that the removal begins later in the chapters of
Revelation when Jesus is physically present but God will
bring judgment upon this earth and rebellious mankind
beginning with the opening of the first seal loosed in
chapter 6. God will begin the process of preparing the earth
and the heavens for the reign of His Son, Jesus Christ and
removing the defiling rebellion of wicked men and the
polluting of His creation. As God in His grace attempts to
bring man to repentance, the destruction will grow worse and
more intense as Joel described in chapter 2:
“Blow ye the
trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let
all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the
LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
A day of
darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great
people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of
many generations.
And I will
show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke.The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the
terrible day of the LORD come.
And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the
LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem
shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the
remnant whom the LORD shall call.”
This is the
beginning of sorrows for unrepentant man and his wickedness,
not the end and will continue until the full-measure of
God’s wrath is poured out by the: seventh angel in the bowl
judgments.
God has given us clear examples and words that point to a
time in the near future when He will begin fulfilling His
past prophetic rehearsals of God's plan for man, and
beginning the Trumpet call to announce the coming of the
King. Will you be ready?
Charles Holler (12
March 2017)
"Revelation 12, TRUMPets, and the day
and hour"
Greetings
and Salutations brother John and fellow Doves,
This could be the most serious message that I have given.
To start with
I don't want to
sound like a broken record or have you say "there he goes
again, kicking a dead horse" but I noticed one of the
reasons that the Lord put multiple versus throughout the
scriptures is because He knew we didn't get it the
first time. I cannot stress how important this message is
and how it grieves me to see prominent men of God,
Prophets, Evangelists, teachers, and fellow Christians,
run from this obvious truth in the scriptures. We even see
those who are attempting to show when the Lord is
returning, having to justify their statements with "no man
knows the day or the hour, but we can know the season"
Then what's even more atrocious is that it doesn't even
say "no man knows the day or hour" in the scriptures.
Mat 24:36a But of that day and hour knoweth no man,
So now I'm afraid we're getting into
dangerous territory of adding to the scriptures or taking
it way from the scriptures, because not only when they say
this "no man knows the day or the hour, but only the
father" they're implying a message here that no man is
going to know the day of the Rapture. Now if they'll only
just take a couple hours and study the Olivet Discourse,
which is Matthew 24 and see that the disciples asked three
questions. When is the destruction of the temple, when is
the end of the age, and when was the sign of His coming?
(not the Rapture!!! the rapture is when we are caught up
to meet Him in the air, the Second Coming is when He comes
to Earth) I can't stress enough on how I'm afraid
Christians could be getting into the dangerous territory
of adding to the scriptures or taking away from the
scriptures.
Rev 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth
the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall
add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues
that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the
words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away
his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy
city, and from the things which are written in this book.
The Lord answered these and told when the
destruction of the temple was going to be, and then all
kinds of signs about His Second Coming. The third question
He tells us with the very verse before verse 36, and it
surely is about the end of the age. Here they are :
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my
words shall not pass away.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man,
no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
So this
verse that is Miss quoted so many times has nothing
to do with the timing ( nothing about when ) but it has to
do with the awesomeness of this day, because it's ABOUT
NOT WHEN the end of the age. The end of the age is
going to be so horrible with asteroids hitting the planet,
a third of mankind dying, a third of all the oceans
dying, leaves and trees dying, and it's so horrible
that no man knows about it, only the Father. and that's
what that versus is saying, " But of that day" the Greek
word for of does not mean
when it means ABOUT !!!
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peri
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that is, around; figuratively with respect to; used in
various applications, of place, cause or time (with the
genitive case denoting the subject or occasion or
superlative point; with the accusative case the locality,
circuit, matter, circumstance or general period): -
(there-) about, above, against, at, on behalf of, X and
his company, which concern, (as) concerning, for, X how it
will go with, ([there-, where-]) of, on, over, pertaining
(to), for sake, X (e-) state, (as) touching, [where-] by
(in), with. In compounds it retains substantially the same
meaning of circuit (around), excess (beyond), or
completeness (through).
It should have been obvious to the scholars
when there are so many other verses that say we will know
when He's Coming. Then it might be that they know this
truth in their spirit but are so indoctrinated by the "no
man knows" they can't admit it and then if they get a date
wrong the Body will chew them up and ruin their
ministries.... and shame on all of us for that, when we
should have been studying ourselves and looking for the
time of His Coming. We can see how sad our Lord was when
they missed Him the first time. Daniel even gave the
actual day count....to the day... and the scriptures
should tell us also when He's coming the Second time and
not only the day but I'm going to even tell you what hour
I believe the Scriptures are now revealing to us as the
time is upon us. Here are just a few very obvious verses
telling us to Watch for His Coming:
Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received
and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou
shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou
shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren,
ye have no need that I write unto you.
1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1Th 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety;
then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon
a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
1Th 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
that day should overtake you as a thief.
1Th 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of
darkness.
Mat_24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the
house had known in what watch the thief would come, he
would have watched, and would not have suffered his house
to be broken up.
Luk_12:39 And this know, that if the goodman of the
house had known what hour the thief would come, he would
have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken
through.
Mat_24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour
your Lord doth come.
Mar_13:35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when
the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight,
or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Mar_13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all,
Watch.
Luk_21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that
ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that
shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
1Pe_4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye
therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Could this be one of the reasons the
foolish virgins missed the rapture and then are left
behind during the great tribulation as the plagues are
being poured out on the Earth? They simply accepted this
deception that they couldn't know the day and hour and
just quit looking?
Daniel and John both not only tell us we're going
to know when He's coming, but actually give day counts,
and Daniels been right once already with a 483 year (360
days for each prophetic year) count to the exact day. They
give day counts of 1260 days, 1290, and 1335 as
there's an extra 75 days. They tell us there's 42
months, and time, times, and half a time, which is the
same as three and a half years, and 1260 days again. They
tell of 62 weeks, ( 434 years) and 7 weeks, ( 49 years)
and 1 week. ( Daniels 70th week of 7 years)
Who can deny how sad our Lord Jesus was when He came the
first time and the chosen people, the apple of His eye,
missed him. Daniel's day count took them to the exact day
on Nissan 10 as He rode on the back of a donkey and they
sang Hosanna, but He knew that in their hearts they had
not received Him. Here we are again, repeating this
exact same scenario plus some. We not only have another
day count from Daniel when scripture is being fulfilled
before our very eyes, but a literal Genesis 1:14
fulfillment of Revelation 12 that John wrote about.
This is being fulfilled this year on September 23rd 2017.
We need to do some deep soul-searching, wake up out of our
slumber, and fill our lamps with oil, because there are
signs everywhere if one only will watch.
I pointed out in my last video about the two-year
warning from September 23rd of 2015 to September 23rd of
2017. I do want to bring to your remembrance of a
few events that made September-23-2015 a marker/sign that
points to this day.
The
September 23, 2015 Sign
September 23rd 2015 can be called a lot of things but
today I will call it the day of the shout "the bridegroom
cometh". I call it this because it's been a long time
since I've seen the church so excited about a particular
day, (1988) but with this date we had movies and books
being written on blood moons on shemitahs and jubilees and
even the authors going before Congress and preaching,
being the guest speaker and preaching the Saving Gospel of
Jesus at the National Presidential prayer breakfast. This
truly was the church being woke up. The problem was that
there was speculation that certain events were going to
happen and they didn't happen. Some said an asteroid was
going to hit, and some said the Rapture was going to
happen, but some said what I said and that was simply
"there was going to be an economic collapse and this was
going to be a major sign" and it was the Shemetah which
also produced the last Jubilee. This one was the 70th
Jubilee since Moses received the law. When looking at 1967
and 1917, we had to conclude the two previous jubilees
were on these years. We had the Star of Bethlehem
appearing for the first time since our Lord Jesus was
born. We had Comet wormwood appearing 666 days previous on
Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah which according
to mainstream fake news, said that wouldn't happen for
another 70,000 years. We had the AC and false prophet
meeting on the White House lawn at 9:23 a.m. Then we had
the fulfillment of the Shemetah. The previous Shemetah of
2008 that resulted in the real estate crash also caused
the Dow to drop 777.7 for a total of 7%. This one of
2015 cost the world 14 trillion dollars:
USA
10% total loss equaling 2 Trillion in loss,
Shanghai 40% total loss
Germany 25% total loss
UK
16% total loss
France 18% total
loss
Japan
3000 points
India
4000 points
Brazil 12,000 points
With all these spectacular events happening on
September-23-2015, we must not and can not deny that
Daniel pointed to this day right out of the scriptures.
The first part of this Daniel revelation came from a
friend of mine Neill G Russell and a book he wrote called
Newton's Riddle. He pointed out that the seven weeks of
Daniel which was 49 years (49 x 360) ran from June 7-1967
to September 23-2015 to the exact day. This was certainly
sobering it didn't take long to start looking at some of
the other possibilities. I'll never forget
meditating in the Lord one day when he put into my spirit
that there are so many dual fulfillment's of Prophecy
including when Jesus came the first time, they couldn't
fathom that He wouldn't come as a conquering King and that
there would be a duel fulfillment of His coming to Earth.
A 2,000 year delay between fulfillment's. Because the
first time He was coming as the Lamb of God to be the
ultimate sacrifice for sin, and now we await the
Conquering King. I want to give credit to Randy from Five
Doves and he pointed out that there was another king the
Sultan Suleiman of the
Ottoman Empire who gave a commandment also to rebuild
Jerusalem. Neill and Randy caused me to realize that the
first fulfillment of Daniel didn't break it down into 62
weeks, 7 weeks, and 1 week. From the day Artaxerxes gave
his Commandment to rebuild Jerusalem went from March 14th
446 B.C. to April 6th 32 A.D. and didn't break it
down....it was the whole 69 weeks (69 x 360) and that's
why the Church has been waiting all this time for Daniels
70th week. So I asked myself why did Daniel break it down?
Then I put it together Neill showed us the 7 weeks and
Randy introduced us to, ( Please try to follow me
here...) this is extremely important. Sultan Suleiman
of the Ottoman Empire gave a commandment to rebuild
Jerusalem on August 20, 1539 AD and the 62 weeks of 7
years each, and each year a prophetic year of 360 days (62
x 7 x 360) brings us to June 7, 1967 (exactly 156,240
days) to the day.Then the last day of the 62 weeks was the
first day of the 7 weeks ( 7 x7 x 360 ) (exactly
17,640 days)and that brought it to the exact day (7
x7 x 360 ) of September 23, 2015.
NOW IF
THE LAST DAY OF THE 62 WEEKS (June 7, 1967)
WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THE 7 WEEKS........THEN THE
LAST DAY OF THE 7 WEEKS (9-23-15) IS THE FIRST DAY
OF DANIELS 70TH WEEK.
Second
fulfillment of Daniels 70 weeks
First day of 62 weeks
Last day of 62weeks
August 20,
1539
June 7, 1967
First day of 7
weeks Last
day of 7 weeks
June-7,
1967
September 23, 2015
First day of one week
Last day of 1 week
September 23,
2015
to be yet determined
because of shortened days
Side-note: the day Jerusalem was reclaimed on June 7, 1967 (last
day of 62 weeks and 1st day of 7 weeks) the soldiers
entered through the Lions gate and out side the Lions gate
is a water pitcher/statue with the engraved commandment
date from Suleyman to rebuild etched into the
rock/concrete.
The Great American Eclipse of 2017
Another great sign is the Great American eclipse of 2017.
This eclipse happens on August 21st 2017. The last time
this happened was in 1918 as America was being pulled into
the first World War. This Eclipse will start in the upper
west coast of America and cut a path across the United
States coming out just north of Florida. Then 7 years
later there's another one that starts around the southern
part of California and comes out towards the state of
Maine making an exact X across the United States. The X
Meets in Southern Illinois. I would like to name a few
locations within just an hour of where these two eclipses
cross. The exact spot where these two eclipses cross is a
Little Road that probably only has four or five houses on
it called Salem Road. Salem used to be the name for
Jerusalem. A few of the other towns or roads that are just
within a few miles of this crossing.They are :
Little Egypt
Devil's Kitchen
Cairo
Pyramid
Pyramid Lane
Egyptian Hills
Lake of Egypt
Giant City State Park
and a couple references to Greece with
Macedonia Road and
Lake Alexander
then in the midst of it as always is
Shiloh Road and
Promise Land Road
and let me close with
Metropolis Illinois the home of Superman.
side-note: I'm not going to go into all the references
that point to Superman being the Son of God. From his name
Kal El (El is Hebrew for God) and being referenced from
"the house of El", Earths Saviour, and Marlon Brandon as
his father Jor El says in one of the movies that he sent
his only begotten son to save mankind. through all his
movies it is uncanny the litany of references of Superman
being Christ. Obama has referred to himself as being sent
from Krypton to save Earth and there is a popular picture
of him in Metropolis posing with the body of Superman.
There was even a cartoon made of BO posing as Superman
saving the Earth.
The sign
of Revelation 12
and the Rapture
For the first time in my life I realize "The sign of
Revelation 12" is a Rapture verse. We've always been
taught that Revelation 4:1 was the only verse when John
was told to "come up hither" and that the church wasn't
mentioned again in the Book of Revelation. This seems not
to be the case. This is just another example of
progressive revelation. The exact word for Rapture in the
Greek is harpazo, meaning to seize by force to snatch up.
It is Greek word 726.
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harpazo¯
har-pad'-zo
>From a derivative of G138; to seize (in various
applications): - catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by
force).
It's only used four other times in the New Testament. Some
scholars would like to say that in Acts chapter one that
Jesus was Harpazo'd,
Act 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while
they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out
of their sight.
but all three words that refer to him being lifted
up have to do with, it was his choice, that he lifted
himself up.... nothing like harpazo that is mentioned for
the first time in Acts 8:39 when Philip was translated.
Act 8:39 And when they were come up out of the
water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the
eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
The next two times are in 2 Corinthians 12:2 and 2
Corinthians 12:4 when Paul knew a man who was Harpazo'd up
to the third heaven.
2Co 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years
ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out
of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one
caught up to the third heaven.
2Co 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise,
and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a
man to utter.
Finally we have the most famous harpazo verse of
all, the one that the church has been waiting for its
whole life. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 is when Paul tells us of
a mystery where we will not all sleep but some will be
changed in the twinkling of an eye and harpazo'd up to
meet the Lord in the air.
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.
Then all the sudden we see in Revelation 12:5 that the
man-child is also are harpazo'd in the Fulfillment of the
great sign of Revelation 12.
Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was
to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was
caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Revelation 2:26,27 gives us a clue to who will rule the
nations with a rod of iron.
Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my
works unto the end, to him will I give power over the
nations:
Rev 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron;
as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to
shivers: even as I received of my Father.
This is so awesome, I wasn't alive to see Israel become a
nation in 1948 but this is how the church must have
felt... to see the scriptures come alive in such a way...
before our very eyes and we are about to witness it here
in 2017 and we even know ahead of time before we see
it.
Is the sign of Revelation 12 for the church? I
don't think so. We see in 1 Corinthians 1:22 it says the
Jews require a sign and I believe that this sign is for
them.
1Co 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks
seek after wisdom:
Even though we Greeks/Gentiles look for signs
and Watch for them whether they are celestial according to
Genesis 1:14 or Earthly as we look to Israel as the fig
tree. We don't require it. We have our mega sign, the sign
of Jonah who went into the belly of the Earth for three
days and then arose from the Grave conquering sin and even
death.
Every
since the days of Zola Levitt and the 1988 Rapture
excitement, the churches have come to realize that the
fall Feasts of The Lord will be fulfilled literally also.
They are just dress rehearsals for the real event.
Passover was just a dress rehearsal for the real
event...the True Lamb of God... spotless to be a sacrifice
for man's sin. The Fall Feast of Rosh Hashanah, Feast of
trumpets, Day of the Blowing of the Shofar (Yom
Teru'ah), Day of Remembrance (Yom ha-Zikkaron) - the
day on which God remembers humankind; Day of
Judgment (Yom ha-Din).
On this day God judges mankind for the forthcoming year, a
judgment that is finally sealed ten days later on the Day
of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Hence the traditional greeting
on Rosh Hashanah is "May you be inscribed [in the Book of
Life] for a good year" and on Yom Kippur "May you be
sealed [in the Book of Life]." Thus Rosh Hashanah
initiates, and Yom Kippur closes, a ten-day period of
supplication for a new year of blessing and peace, a
period known as Aseret Yemei Teshuva (the Ten Days
of Penitence). Both days are also referred to as Yamim
Nora'im (Days of Awe). It even has the idiom of no man
knows the day and hour as it references the point it is a
two day feast that changes every year depending on the
sighting of the new moon. It is the birthday of the
universe, the day G-d created Adam and Eve, and it's
celebrated as the head of the Jewish year.
Now if
this year is the year and it looks like it, then let me
speculate as if it
is the day of the rapture, and let us imagine this
scenario for a minute... this coming Rosh Hashanah the
church is raptured and at the same time like the prophets
have said including Henry Gruver and Ron Reese that sudden
destruction happens simultaneously. They have said or seen
that as the missiles are coming down, we are going up.
That sudden destruction is so atrocious that two days
later the Antichrist reveals himself to the world as its
savior and points to the Revelation 12 sign as his sign,
and the Jews believe it because the scales are still on
their eyes. The scales won't be removed until the AC sits
in the temple declaring himself to be God. The beast will
use the story of Joseph and how Joseph revealed himself as
the deliverer to his brethren. This Antichrist will point
to the Bethlehem star that appeared two thousand years ago
as a two year sign and then appeared two years ago on
September 23rd 2015 as his sign, and a great delusion will
be sent to those to believe a lie who believe not the
truth. It's almost hard for me to continue as I think of
the deception and those who will be lost and receive this
Mark of the Beast...Lord Jesus help us to reach out to
those that we love with the Truth of the Saving Grace of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and a boldness Lord to reach a
lost world for you, forgive me for my slothfulness Lord
and help me to be more aware of the work You'd have me to
do while it's still daytime because night time cometh when
no man can work.
The Trump
Factor
So you
asked me, hey Chuck what about President Donald Trump?
Well like you've heard me say before "we can't put God in
a box". All I can do is speculate a couple possible
scenarios concerning Trump. Is he the last Trump? Does his
very name point to the Feast of Trumpets? This causes me
to think that only three hundred years ago, most of the
United States was referred to as a wilderness. If you left
the East Coast you were going into the Wilderness, if you
took a wagon train from St. Louis or St. Joseph
Missouri, you were headed into the Wilderness. We see that
during the Great Tribulation when the Antichrist is coming
against Israel, that she's lifted up on two great wings of
an eagle and carried into a Wilderness to survive 1260
days. Could America be that Wilderness? Could the
isolation that Trump is doing now be the protection of the
very apple of Jehovah's eyes, the remnant of Israel? Are the mountains east of
Jerusalem very far east....all the way to the
Rocky Mountains?
Will the Lord personally speak to Donald and tell him that
he's to stay here and even do battle with the Beast? We
don't know and we can only speculate. One thing's for
sure, what's not speculation is that the great sign of
Revelation 12 is going to be fulfilled in just a few
months and that the chance of the Rapture happening a
couple days before that is far more possible than any day
we've seen since Israel became a nation. So look up your
Redemption draweth nigh.
The
Rapture: What Day and What Hour?
Let me close
with something that's exciting and that's the Rapture of
the church and those who are looking for His coming, those
who are watching. I don't know if the rapture is going to
be this coming Rosh Hashanah. It looks like it and I am
excited. It's one of the highest watch days I've seen in
my lifetime. I just want to say that if it is the rapture,
we can know the day and hour, and the day is Rosh
Hashanah, September 20-21, 2017. Let's see if we can find
the hour. There is just one other clue to let us know not
only that day but the exact hour that Jesus could harpazo
His church. I noticed some verses talk about the day and
hour, some just the day, and some like Revelation 3:3 just
the hour. It says we won't know the hour. (why not day and
hour?)
Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received
and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou
shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and
thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
The Jews refer to twinkling of an eye as a part
of the day that is at sunset. When you look into the sky
and you can see two stars, and between that moment and
the time you see the third star, this is the twinkling
of an eye. Does 1Co 15:52 break it down like this?
1Co 15:52 In a moment,(how quick it will happen)
in the twinkling of an eye, (what hour) at the last
trump: (what day) for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.
Well Rosh Hashanah starts on September 20, 2017
Wednesday evening in Jerusalem at 6:38 p.m., this means
the twinkling of an eye will happen during the next 25
minutes and central time would be 10:38 a.m. to 11:01
a.m., and if it happens the next day like Rosh Hashanah
is capable of depending on the sighting of the new moon
by two witnesses, sunset is at 6:37 Jerusalem time which
makes our Rapture time 10:37 a.m. to 11:02 a.m. CST keep
looking up because your Redemption draweth nigh.
Rapture
Day and Hour
September 20, 2017 Wednesday
10:38 a.m. to 11.01 a.m.
or
September
21, 2017 Thursday 10:37 a.m. to 11.02 a.m.