Good morning, It is Sunday morning and I hope that you get the opportunity to go to church or spend so intimate time with God. I would like to lift Olivia up to the Father for healing prayer.
She is 5, and a swingset fell on her last week and she had to have a kidney removed. She is at Memorial Hermann is Houston. She is the daughter of one of my past players. For those who don't know me, I am a basketball coach.
I wanted to continue with the birth of the child from last time. We recognize that the woman was the bride of Christ, which is the nation of Israel. She gave birth to a kingdom of believer that we discovered was the church. All of this happened as symbolism because it was ocurring in heaven. The question I left you with was "is this the rapture". I am sure you got the answer, the answer is no. Why? Because it is not happening on earth. This group of people (believers in Jesus Christ as the savior) is complete at this time. When you die you go to be with Christ. Collectively, all of these believers will be escalated to the throne of God. They are pure, clean, and sin free because of the sacrifice of Jesus' blood (nothing that they have done got them into the kingdom). When this group of believers go, the Holy Spirit goes with them. This happens very early in the tribulation. Most people get this part wrong, they believe that the time, times, and half of time is the last half of the tribulation. Actually, the timeframe of 3 and 1/2 years (time= one year, times = 2 years and 1/2 of time = 1/2 year) ends 1335 days into the tribulation. I need to make a chart to show this to you. Oh, by the way, that is exactly when 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 is occuring.
Now, if we look at Revelation 12:9,"and the great red dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him".
As you see, satan is thrown down to earth. This means that satan and his angels are on earth to do as they please. How are satan and his angels here? I believe they are in body form. Satan is now in bodily form as the antichrist. We can see that this occurs in Revelation 8:10, "And the third angel sounded and a great star fell from heaven," Revelation 8:12, " And the fourth angel sounded and a third of the stars were smitten," I believe that these verses are physical occurance and symbolic of the spiritual events taking place. Revelation 9:1, "and the fifth angel sounde and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him." The key to the bottomless is held by Jesus and given to satan to open to let out all of the angels that were locked up when they rebelled with satan. At this time they are released to cause havic on the earth.
All of these things begin early in the tribulation. I believe that 75 days into the tribulation, the child will be born and lifted to God the Father and satan will be cast to earth. It starts at the third trumpet and lasts for 1260 days. It will end after 1335 days when the rapture that is talked about in 1 Thessalonians 4 happens.
Here is the real question. Are you part of the kingdom that is taken up to the throne? To do that it looks like you must be dead. Because this occurs in heaven, not on earth. Then if you aren't dead, where are you? The answer is, you are in the tribulation. Matthew 24:24, "For false christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect." You see during the tribulation, many people are going to believe a lie and be deceived. It will be hard to decern the truth.
Look at Revelation 7:14,"And I said to him, 'My lord you know,' And he said to me, These are the one who come out of the great tribulation and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb."
How do they make it out of the tribulation? We will discuss that next time.
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