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Many in the world today understand that the dawning of a "New Age" is not on the horizon but here! The year 2000 has come and gone with rapid speed and a new millennium has not only begun, but is forcing its way into the lives of those on the planet. Only once since the death of Christ has man witnessed the milestone of the beginning of a new millennium. It was of course the year 1000 A.D. There is exceeding deception in the world today on both spiritual and political issues. <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">It is God's desire that none should perish but that all should come to repentance. Sadly, since man was created, many have not chosen repentance and many have perished. Such has continued throughout history and shall continue to the <u>end</u>! This is my desire; that these volumes will reach many, both in the secular world and the Church of God,<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>(1) to enlighten them to the lateness of the hour in which we live, (2) to warn them of the things to come, (3) hope, that many will come to repentance, and last but not least, (4) prepare them for the days coming soon!</b><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To those who study these words, that do not know Yahshua/Jesus Christ as their savior, it is my solemn prayer that you would find true enlightenment in him. For you see, in my youth I was turned off to Christianity, even though as a child I attended church regularly. For nearly twelve years as a young adult, I adhered to Buddhism, dabbled in the occult, parapsychology, and eventually became a Scientologist. Only when an acquaintance of mine back in 1980 when I was asked if I would read a book that he had, and after much resistance, did I again search out Christianity for truth. <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The book was titled "<u>The Late Great Planet Earth"</u>, by author, Hal Lindsey. It became clear to me through reading this book about Biblical Prophecy, that the Bible was truly in a class of its own. Sure, I had read Nostrodamus, Edgar Cayce, Ruth Montgomery, Jess Stearn and many other prophetic works, but never before had one given such prophecies that could be so clearly seen, being fulfilled before my very eyes. Only through divine grace did Yahwah/God show me the deception I had been in for the past twelve years. I repented and started on a journey through his Word that is ongoing to this day and hopefully beyond, if Yahwah/God permits.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I pray that you will find comfort (by becoming a believer in Yahshua/Jesus Christ) and that this book will lead you into the true doctrine of the time of the end that it portrays. I pray Yah will build the truth for you.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">My prayer is simple. It is my prayer that you would earnestly search the scriptures, <b>let go of man's doctrines</b>, and allow the Holy Spirit of God/Yah to lead you into all truth. I have no denominational doctrines to defend. I have no denominational statements and beliefs to further. Truth is my only aim. The hour is getting indeed late and it should be of grave concern to you. To Yahwah/God be all the glory! I hope that the scriptural evidence of that which I embark on here is what proves to be the truth. I realize that I don’t have all the truth, and may have some errors in my eschatology still, but hopefully they are minute and would not hinder the thread of the truth I hope to present here about the post tribulation rapture of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This volume is about "The Second Coming of Yahshua/Jesus Christ" and his saints. It is my deepest desire that this treatise will help to prepare <u>you</u> for what is about to come to this planet, shortly.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">The First Step</span></u></b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This book is for the preparation for the days to come. The fact that you are reading this is the first step in understanding the days of the end times, and the preparation for it. The thirst for knowledge and truth about these events, is that first step. Make <i><u>no</u></i> mistake about it. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>God wants to reveal his truth to you</u>!</b><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yahshua tells his disciples, <i>"...when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...and <u>he will show you things to come</u>," John 16:13.</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">At least one third of the Bible is directly related to the events of the last days. Yah tells Abraham in <i>Genesis 18:17, "<u>Shall I hide</u> from Abraham that <u>thing which I do</u>?"</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">John says in <i>Revelation 1:1-3, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him, to show <u>unto his servants</u> things which <u>must</u> shortly (</i>suddenly, swiftly)<sup>1</sup><i> <u>come to pass</u>; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.</i>"<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Who bore record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.<o:p> </o:p> </span></i></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Blessed</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> is he that <u>breadth</u>, and they that <u>hear</u> the words of this <u>prophecy</u>, and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand."<o:p> </o:p> </span></i></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yahshua goes on to tell us<i>, "He that hath an <u>ear</u>, let him <u>hear</u> what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Revelation 2:29; 3:22</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Surely, the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy." Amos 3:7, 8</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But how does one prepare for these days? And how does one prepare to receive the revelations given in God's word? Why should we prepare? When will the revelation of God's Word be revealed? I with all humility, will try to answer those pertinent questions.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yah's Word has already been written. He has already revealed everything in his written Word about the things to come. Now we must come to understand it. We are told that when we <u>pray</u> for wisdom, <u>pray</u> for understanding also.<i> Wisdom without understanding is profitless. Proverbs. 24:3<o:p> </o:p> </i></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></i></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Why Prepare For The Tribulation?<o:p> </o:p> </span></u></b></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In <u>"The Shepherd of Hermas"</u>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The First Book of Hermas, which is called his Vision, Hermas saw a vision about the tribulation period.<br> <br> The vision was about a beast and his overcoming the beast. Let us look at this vision.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"I saw a vision, brethren, twenty days after the former vision; a representation of the tribulation that is at hand..." Vision 4:1</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"And the sun shone a little; and behold I saw a great beast, as it were a whale; and fiery locusts came out of its mouth..." Vision 4:8</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Now the beast came on in such a manner, as if it could at once have devoured a city." Vision 4:11</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"...but by the power of God, and through his singular mercy, I escaped it.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thou didst escape it well said she, because</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <i>thou didst cast thy whole care upon God, and opened thy heart unto him, believing that thou couldest be safe by no other than by his great and honourable name." Vision 4:16-17</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Go therefore, and relate to the elect of God the great things he (God) hath</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <i>done for thee. And thou shalt say unto them, that this beast is the figure of the trial that is about to come."</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"If therefore, ye shall have prepared yourselves, ye may escape it, if your heart be pure and without spot; and if ye shall serve God all the rest of your days without complaint.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cast all your cares upon the Lord, and he will direct them. Believe in God, ye doubtful, because he can do all things; he can both turn away his wrath from you, and send you help and security.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Woe to the doubtful, to those who shall hear these words and shall despise them; it had been better for them that they had not been born." Vision 4:19-22</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Wherefore do not thou cease to speak these things in the ears of the saints. <b>Here ye have the figure of the great tribulation</b> that is about to come; which if you please shall be nothing to you." Vision 4:28</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So here we have a vision of the great tribulation; and that if you prepare yourselves, you may escape it, and it will be nothing to you. You can be safe if you cast your care upon the Lord, and trust him and if your heart is pure and without spot. He will send you help and security.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">One who is not prepared for what is to come upon the earth during these end of the last days, are punished.<i> "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and <u>hideth</u> himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. " Proverbs. 22:3</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men and every bondsman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;<br> And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us , and <u>hide</u> us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb." Revelation 6:15, 16</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; <b>it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger</b>." Zephaniah 2:3</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Forewarned is forearmed. Just as in all of the Old Testament prophecies given by the Old Testament prophets were the forewarning of future events that were to come. They were a call to repentance. Forewarned with the foreknowledge of what would be the result of Yah's people's disobedience to his voice, his laws, and his commandments. The choice of blessings or cursings are a result of our obedience or disobedience. This same message is for the church and mankind. Listen to the voice of the Lord and those who repeat it!<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Robert Van Kampen, in his book, "<u>The Sign</u>", expanded edition, has some wonderful insights concerning these end times, and although I disagree with some of his conclusions<i>, </i>these insights of his should not be discarded.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Concerning the why's of preparing, I wish to quote from him<i>. </i>"How much more, then, will His holiness demand chastisement of unspiritual and disobedient Christians (part of the spiritual line of Abraham) who have so much more light through His completed Word and so much capacity for righteousness by the power of His indwelling Spirit? The Bible is fearfully clear that all impurities in the church will be purged <i>(I Peter 4:12, 13, 17, 18)</i>, in order that every believer might be presented to the divine Bridegroom 'as a pure virgin' <i>(2 Corinthians 11:2)</i>, 'blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ' <i>(I Corinthians 1:8)</i>."<b><sup>1</sup></b><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Continuing with Mr. Van Kampen, "...God's promises have always been to the faithful remnant who truly believe in Him, and that only that remnant will be prepared, by His gracious power, to face and to<sup><br> </sup>overcome the end-time challenges and afflictions portrayed in the following pages (the pages of his book). Each reader must evaluate and decide for himself."<b><sup>2</sup></b><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"...Contrary to what many may believe or have been taught, what we believe about end-times is critical - if not for our own well being, then certainly for the well being of our children or their children!."<b><sup>3</sup></b><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"...Christians who experience any part of the events occurring during the (<u>seventieth week</u>) <b><sup>4</sup></b> from the relatively mild shudderings of the initial 'birth pangs' to the unmerciful atrocities of the Great Tribulation by the Antichrist - will need to know the full truth of those times if they are to remain faithful to their Lord and confident in His Word."<b><sup> 5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p> </o:p> </sup></b></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"But there is no reason to be unprepared. "...the degree to which Christians will be persecuted by Antichrist and his ungodly forces in the last days (especially during the Great tribulation) will be directly dependent on the degree to which we are spiritually prepared."<b><sup> 6</sup></b><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In the first three chapters of <i>Revelation</i>, Yahshua/Jesus makes some<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>dire warnings to those in the church during the end of time before he returns.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The footnote in my Bible says it this way:<b><sup><o:p> </o:p> </sup></b></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chapters 2, 3 These chapters contain letters to the seven churches. These were local churches in Asia Minor, but they were each representatives of a particular age in church history. Therefore, in a very marvelous way, the Lord takes churches currently existing at that time and compares their behavior and their circumstances with certain epochs, which were yet to appear in church history. Throughout the Book of Revelation, the Lord wants to make clear that He is writing the history of the future.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Look now at what Yahshua says to the people of the church at Smyrna, <i>"Fear none of those things which thou shall suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Revelation 2:10</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To the angel of the church in Pergamos, He says, <i>"<u>Repent</u>, or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth." Revelation 2:16</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To the people at the church in Thyatira, He says, <i>"And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.<br> Behold, I will cast her into a bed and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he, which searcheth the reins and hearts; and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.<o:p> </o:p> </span></i></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as may as have not this doctrine </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(the doctrine of Jezebel that some were practicing mentioned in <i>Revelation 2:20</i>)<i> and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I will put upon you <u>none other burden</u>.</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations;</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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 my Father." Revelation 2:21-27</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yes the consequences of sin and those during the end of the last days committing such, result in their being cast into great tribulation, but those who walk in the Spirit, putting down the sins of the flesh, no other burden shall be put on them <b>during</b> great tribulation. They shall rule during that time over the nations.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And to the church at Sardis, He said He has not found their works perfect, to hold fast and repent, and<i>, "If therefore thou shall <u>not watch</u>, I will <u>come</u> on thee <u>as a thief</u> and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments, and <u>they</u> shall <u>walk</u> with <u>me</u> in <u>white</u>; for they are worthy." Revelation 3:3, 4</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt">.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Now, to the church at Laodicea, Jesus speaks:<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest <u>see</u>.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As many as I <u>love</u>, I <u>rebuke</u> and chasten; be zealous therefore, and <u>repent</u>. Revelation 3:15b-19.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yahshua wants us to make him our Lord as well as our Savior, They go hand in hand. As a show of His love, He will rebuke and chasten His own as prudent parents should rebuke and chasten their own children, if they really love them. For <u>their own good!!</u> Yahshua will have those He loves tried in fire until nothing but pure gold is the result, so they might be clothed with white raiment in the end. However, it is much better we do it ourselves with the power of the Holy Spirit, before the time comes that we <u>will be tried!!</u><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And now finally to the words that Yahshua spoke to the church of Philadelphia. <i>"Because thou hast <u>kept the word of my patience</u>, <u>I</u> also <u>will keep thee</u> from the <u>hour of temptation</u>, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Behold, I come quickly; hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." Revelation 3:10, 11.<o:p> </o:p> </span></i></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></i></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">To Escape Or Nor To Escape<o:p> </o:p> </span></u></b></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">During the time of the tribulation spoken of in <i>The Book of Revelation</i>, which is the last seven years of existence as we know it today with sin, evil, and righteousness existing together in the earth along with man’s evil governments, many men including the Antichrist, shall try to take your crown of everlasting life.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yahshua says he will keep thee (<i>those that have kept His word and hast not denied his name Revelation 3:8)</i> from the hour of temptation. One does not have to be removed from the earth, or raptured for Yahshua to keep them from the hour of temptation. Those that have prepared themselves shall be kept from that hour. That hour that shall be like no other time in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I also believe that you can conclude that one hour equals seven years during this time period.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yahshua also gives some pertinent advice to us in <i>Luke 21:36</i>, <i>"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."</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Watch for what and escape what things?, you might ask.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Does escape mean to be raptured?</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> First, let us look at what Yahshua/Jesus says about this question, then we shall look at the other questions.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I pray <u>not</u> that thou shouldest take them out of the world, <u>but</u> that thou shouldest <u>keep them from the evil</u>.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">" John 17:14, 15</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yahshuwah/Jesus does not want Yahwah/God to take us out of the world during this time, but instead he wants to keep us from the evil while we are on the earth. He wants to keep us from the evil beasts spoken of in <i>Revelation 13:4, 5</i>, that has power for 3-1/2 years!<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months." (3-1/2 years) Revelation 13:4, 5.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yahshua has much to do for his saints during the last 3-1/2 years and much for his saints to do as well. Those that have an ear to hear the prophets and trust in his word.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sanctify </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(consecrate)<i> them through thy truth; thy word is truth.</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word" John 17:16-20</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yah wants to protect them, keep them from the evil, so that others might believe on Yahshua through their words; and not to take them out of the world!<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Now, what does Yahshua want us to watch for, and pray always that we may be accounted worthy to escape?<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." Luke 12:11</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring" Luke 21:25</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Men's hearts failing them for fear; and looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Luke 21:26</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be." Mark 13:19</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." Luke 21:22</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"So likewise ye, when <u>ye see these things come to pass</u>, know ye that the Kingdom of God is neigh at hand”. Luke 21:31</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Verily, I say unto you, <u>This generation</u></span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (<b>THE ONE THAT SEES THESE THINGS COME TO PASS</b>) <i><u>shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.</u> Luke 21:32</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <b>stand?</b>" Revelation 6:17.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yah reveals to us in his word those <b>who</b> will be able to stand and how!<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Instead of trying to put in my words what the scripture teaches about this question, I'll just quote the scripture.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"...but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart." Ephesians. 6:6</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Just having knowledge about the days of the end is not enough. It is only the beginning! You must be able to do the "will of Yah" from your heart in order to stand.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"If therefore, ye shall have prepared yourselves, ye may escape it; <b>if your heart be pure and without spot, and if ye shall serve God all the rest of your days without complaint".</b> Vision 4:20</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"And that servant which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with <u>many</u> stripes </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(lashes)<i>." Luke 12:47</i><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with <u>few</u> stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." Luke 12:48</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In order to stand and serve Yah by doing his will during this horrible time, the preparation must be done in advance, which means prior to the beginning of this 3-1/2 year period known as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Great Tribulation</b>. Those that have not prepared themselves will be beaten with many stripes. Those that knew their Lord's will, <i><u>"that they should be without spot and their heart pure"</u></i>, (which is the preparation) and did not prepare themselves, will suffer and be beaten with many stripes, from their persecutors.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Those that <u>did things</u> worthy to be beaten, but did <u>not</u> know the Lord's will, shall also be beaten, but with few stripes, not many.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But those that have prepared themselves by their hearts being pure and without spot, they shall escape those things coming upon the earth, not by being removed from earth, but by being able to do Yah's will during this time of great tribulation.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in; text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Just as our Lord Yahshua, himself, warned those that are alive when the tribulation begins and that are exhibiting the characteristics of five of the seven churches in Asia depicted in <i>Revelation Chapters 2 through 3</i>, they would be cast into tribulation suffering the effects brought forth by it (<i>Revelation 2:22</i>). 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