The RAPTURE and The Tribulation of Seven Years (aka DANIEL’s 70th Week)

 ~ By James Fire

AS WEIRD AS RAIN 

In the days of Noah rainfall was a thing unheard of; the world was irrigated by a heavy mist that rose up from the ground, spread out and saturated everything (GEN 2:6).

So, when Noah (1) began building a 450’ long barge (2) (GEN 6:14-16) in the middle of dry land, and warned of a time yet to come, when the skies would open up and shed cascades of water, as well as the fountains of the deep erupting like geysers, flooding the Earth (GEN 7:11), he was mocked for such a ridiculous idea.
But just as the world mocked Noah for the idea of water falling from the heavens, the world mocks the church because we talk about the living and the dead in Christ disappearing from the Earth suddenly in a rapture, rising up and leaving this world for heaven. And this event could occur at any moment (I might not be able to finish this teaching)!

Yet the warning of coming Judgment still issued from the mouth of Noah (3), for 120 years’ worth of preaching (4) (2 PET 2:5; GEN 6:3)!

1) Noah, the Flood, and 120 Years

2) How did all the animals fit on Noah’s Ark?

3) Living Water's Ministry: NOAH the movie

4) NO ONE LISTENED TO NOAH FOR 120 YEARS

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MIDDLE EAST PROPHECY UPDATE – 2018

~ By James Fire

Prophetically speaking the Bible has much to say about Israel and the Messiah of Israel, and to understand where we are on God’s Prophetic time table, we only have to look to Israel.

It’s not always appreciated in our day, that Israel as a national entity didn’t exist for almost 1900 years (from 70 AD when the nation was dispersed by the Roman Empire until MAY 14, 1948).

For the last 70 years, the Jewish people have been brought back into the land, established once again as a national entity, with their own government, their own economy, an updated form of Hebrew, their own social structure and military – one of the greatest in the world; their Air Force is second to none! Quite an accomplishment! Their historical heritage is restored and preserved.

NEVER in all the history of humanity has this ever happened to a nation; Israel is the first and only people to have been dispersed and brought back and re-established after almost two millennia! And the Bible, the Word of God predicted that this would happen, not once, but twice – but not a third or fourth time!

ISAIAH 11:11a-12b

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, [from all the world over], and from the islands [coast lands] of the sea. 12 . . . and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

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The GOSPEL of MATTHEW: Ch. 27:1-33 – Part 1: The MESSIAH and HIS KINGDOM MESSAGE

~ By James Fire

There are those that see the crucifixion of Christ as a martyr dying for a cause; martyrs however may offer their lives for some purpose, belief or organization, or nation and are victims of their oppressors. This is not the case with the LORD Jesus Christ – He willingly offered His life; no one took His life from Him (JOHN 10:17-18). Many haters of the Jewish people will refer to them as ‘Christ-killers’ – and while the religious leaders of that day had their hand in this deed, so did the Romans – and truth be told, so did I: it was my sin that nailed Him to the cross!

Far from being merely a victim, the LORD Jesus Christ achieved the ultimate victory in this paradoxical performance of propitiatory atonement:

“In weakness like defeat, He won the victor's crown;

Trod all our foes beneath His feet, By being trodden down.  

“He Satan's power laid low: Made sin, He sin o'erthrew.

 Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so; And death by dying slew.”

Let us begin our procession into this, the Holy of Holies – the offering up of the atoning blood of our LORD and Savior . . .

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The MILLENNIUM: REIGN of the MESSIAH - Part Eleven

~ By James Fire

I had no idea when I began this series that it would extend beyond ten articles, but here we are on the 11th installment and we still haven’t completed the Old Testament survey of this remarkable time yet future known as the Millennial Reign of Christ! The preponderant evidence of such a period of time as revealed by the Scriptures is a matter of fact. It cannot be explained away, spiritualized or allegorized. Nothing except a literal reading and explanation makes sense of all of this.

When the Messiah returns to Earth, He will come as a ruling King, and no King is without a Kingdom – obviously the very term ‘Messiah’ is by definition, the King of Israel – not a king over Gentiles (though He most certainly shall reign over all the world), not the King of the church – Christ is the Head of the Church, and LORD, but where in Scripture does it explicitly state that Christ’s office over the church is as her King? The Messiah will reign over the Kingdom of Israel (ACTS 1:6-7).

Let’s now proceed with our examination of the book of Daniel and see what the LORD had revealed to him.

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