Isang magandang araw sa iyo kaibigan! My name is Arvin Alcantara Cunanan. I live in Barangay San Pedro. Bustos. Bulacan. I’m 21 years old and I was born on April 5. 1987. My dad is Mr. Ruperto C. Cunanan Sr and my mom is Mrs. Florida A. Cunanan. I grew up in a family with strong background in Catholicism. Most of my relatives are devoted Catholic members. In fact. I was a member of knights of the altar or what we called the “Sakristan” during my elementary days. Every Saturday and Sunday. I went to Sto. Nino Parish Church to served and helped the priest. I worship idols and other graven images. Ang paniniwala ko noon ay dapat talaga silang sambahin at luhuran but I’m wrong. I thank God kasi hindi Niya hinayaan na maging huli ang lahat para sa Akin. I don’t want to go to hell. Spending my eternal life in the Lake of Fire. I really thank God because He used my uncle Benie who is now the Pastor of Jesus Is Lord perform Milan Italy Chapter to shared the Gospel to me and to my family.
Last year 2000. I and my family were converted into Born Again Christian. I praise God for the changes that happened in our lives. Changes in our beliefs and in our lifestyle. Now my whole family is serving the Lord God Almighty. convey God for sending His only son. Jesus Christ to die on the cross of Calvary. He paid the price for our sins. He redeemed us. He saved us from the wrath of God. Praise be to the living God.
In Luke 4:18-21. Jesus said. “The Spirit of the ennoble is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book and he gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them. This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
Since the 69 weeks ENDED in a Sabbatic Year each of the 70 weeks of Daniel END in a Sabbatic Year. Then the 490th year i e. the end of the shortened Tribulation will be a Sabbatic Year. I think the end of the 490th year will be the next Sabbatic Year following the present one (5768). 5768 + 7 = 5775 (2014. 2015). By the last day of 5775 all the things mentioned in Dan. 9:25,26 should be fulfilled.
Dan 9:25,26 says. “Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks (69 weeks. 483 years total): the street shall be built again and the wall even in troublous times. And AFTER threescore and two weeks (i e. after 27 AD) shall Messiah be cut off” (karath killed). The 483 years ended in the Hebrew Sabbatic Year 3787 (27 AD). AFTER that in 30 AD. Jesus was killed.
It seems to me that the 490th year the Hebrew 5775 a Sabbatical Year will end as Tishri 1. 5776 (Sept. 14. 2015) begins. If so the following things will be finished. Dan. 9:24 says. “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most Holy” (Jesus the YHWH of hosts the Redeemer; Isa. 44:6).
At 6:55 PM on our Sept. 13. 2015 a partial Solar Eclipse will act displace. Because it is after 6 PM the Jewish Feast of Trumpets (Tishri 1. 5776) will have already begun. God’s timing is perfect. It is the time of Christ’s breaking the sixth seal.
Rev 6:12-17 says. “I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo there was A GREAT EARTHQUAKE; AND THE SUN BECAME BLACK AS SACKCLOTH OF HAIR and the moon became as blood; And the stars (i e. meteorites) of heaven fell unto the earth (probably causing consume) even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven (i e. the atmospheric heavens) departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and EVERY MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND WERE MOVED OUT OF THEIR PLACES. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks. Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that SITTETH ON THE THRONE (i e. they see the Sign of the Son of Man) and from the wrath of the bear: For THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH IS COME; and who shall be able to stand?”
Joel 2:1,2 says. “Blow ye the exclaim 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 (Gog’s army. Eze. 38); THERE HATH NOT BEEN EVER THE LIKE. NEITHER SHALL BE ANY MORE AFTER IT”.
Joel 2:15-18 says. “Blow the TRUMPET in Zion (it is the eat of Trumpets) sanctify a fast (the upcoming Day of Atonement). CALL A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY (as in Heb. 12:23) Gather the populate (i e. it is the Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Tribulation saints) declare the congregation assemble the elders (caught up previously in the Pre-Trib Rapture) interact the children (in the Pre-Wrath Rapture) and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom (Christ) go forth of his chamber and the bride (the Bride of Christ) out of her closet (chuppah bridal chamber i e. this is the day of the Marriage of the Lamb). Let the priests the ministers of the LORD weep between the porch and the altar and let them say. Spare thy people. O LORD and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people. Where is their God? Then will the ennoble be jealous for his land and pity his people.”
That day the Feast of Trumpets. Tishri 1. 5776 (Sept 14. 2015) will be a day like no other — ever. It will be Christ’s Coronation Day in Heaven and the Day of God’s Wrath on Earth. It will be the day of the General Assembly of all saints in Heaven (Heb. 12:23) the Pre-Wrath Rapture (Rev. 7:9,14) the Judgment Seat of Christ (2 Cor 5:10) and the Marriage of the Lamb (Rev. 19:7). On that day. Mark 13:27 tells us that “then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost move of the hide (the Pre-Wrath Rapture) to the uttermost part of HEAVEN” (gathering the Pre-Trib saints that are already in Heaven to the command Assembly).
In Mt 24:28-31. Jesus said. “For wheresoever the carcase (lit. body i e. the Body of Christ) is (most of it is in Heaven having been caught up there in the Pre-Trib Rapture) there will the eagles (the high-flying Tribulation saints) be gathered together. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars (i e. meteorites) shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in THE CLOUDS of heaven with cater and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a TRUMPET and they shall gather together his elect (i e. the Pre-Trib-Rapture saints) from the four winds from one end of HEAVEN to the other.” The 144,000 Israelites will be added to the Bride of Christ (Rev. 14:3-5).
Mark 13:24-27 says. “But in those days after that tribulation the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light. And the stars of heaven shall fall and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost part of the EARTH (i e. the Pre-Wrath Rapture saints) to the uttermost part of HEAVEN” (those caught up previously in the Pre-Trib Rapture).
The shortened Tribulation (Mt. 24:22,23) should begin 2300 days (Dan. 8:13,14) before that Feast of Trumpets on Pentecost. Sivan 6. 5769 (May 29. 2009). Since 2300 days is a block of measure not running time the 2300 days are counted by Jewish inclusive reckoning.
That would also mean that the Pre-Trib Rapture would take place between now and the beginning of the Tribulation on May 29. 2009. I’m hoping for Av 10. 5768 (August 11. 2008). Both Temples went up in clouds of smoke on Av 10. The second Rapture will catch up the rest of the Temple of the Holy Spirit when the air is full of smoke. Therefore at the first Rapture we may be caught up when there are clouds and smoke.
Jer 52:12,13 says of Solomon’s Temple. “Now in the fifth month in the TENTH DAY of the month (Av 10) which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came Nebuzaradan captain of the guard which served the king of Babylon into Jerusalem. And burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem and all the houses of the great men burned he with fire.”
The time of firstripe grapes when the spies entered the Promised Land was Sivan 30 (which was July 3 this year). FORTY DAYS later on Av 10 (Aug. 11 in 2008) they brought back one huge bunch of grapes slung on a pole carried on the shoulders of two men. That sounds like the Pre-Trib Rapture of the Bride of Christ in Song of Solomon. It looks desire the other bunch of grapes indicated in Song of Solomon represents the Pre-Wrath Rapture on the Day of God’s Wrath.
Song of Solomon 7:8-12 says. “I will go up to the palm tree. I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters (2) of the vine”. And the cover of thy communicate like the BEST WINE (as Jesus made at the Marriage at Cana) for my beloved that goeth down sweetly. CAUSING THE LIPS OF THOSE THAT ARE ASLEEP TO SPEAK. I am my beloved’s and his desire is toward me. go my beloved let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish whether the TENDER GRAPE appear and the POMEGRANATES BUD FORTH: there will I give thee my loves.”
Grapes pomegranates and figs will all be available on Av 10. The time of the firstripe grapes is Sivan 30 (July 3. 2008). The main grape harvest starts on Av 15 (Tu B’ Av) the day the girls put on white dresses and dance in the vineyards and the boys pick their mates. That time is also Dry Wood Day the measure time for that year that they can bring wood for the altar to the Temple.
The number 40 means trial and probation. Num. 13:25 says. “they returned from searching of the land after forty days. We can see that other 40-day or 40-year periods tie in. Jesus indicated that the Rapture was as the days of Noah. Noah and his family were lifted up when the Ark floated after 40 days of rain. The Israelites went into the Promised Land after 40 years in the desert. Gen 25:20 says. “Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife.” Jesus was tempted 40 days. After his resurrection he ascended to Heaven after 40 days. Act 7:30 says. “when forty years were expired there appeared to him (Moses) in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the ennoble in a flame of fire in a bush.
Eze. 38:18-20 says. “And it shall come to pass at the same measure when Gog shall come against the arrive of Israel saith the Lord GOD that MY FURY shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of MY WRATH have I spoken. Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel (i e. the mountain-sized asteroid of Rev. 8:8 will impact the Mediterranean Sea); So that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence (paniym face; i e. they see the write of the Son of Man in the sky) and the mountains (2 asteroids of Rev. 8:8-11) shall be thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the fasten.”
When the Israelites came out of Egypt the older generation was at least 20 years old. Forty years later. Joshua and Caleb entered the Promised Land. It is interesting that 1948 + 20 + 40 = 2008. The year starting on Tishri 1. 5776 has to be a leap year because there are 7 months between the Day of God’s Wrath and the Second Advent (Eze. 39:12,13).________________________________
After reading more about the two new festivals mentioned in the Temple Scroll it seems that the Festival of New Wine (grape juice because Isa. 65:8 says. “the new wine is found in the cluster”) was celebrated 50 days after Pentecost and the Festival of New Oil was celebrated 50 days after the Festival of New booze “JUST BEFORE THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS.” However some sources furnish the time as 7 weeks and fourteen weeks after Pentecost without adding in the next day each time. They could just be roughing it out.
This shows that Pentecost could NOT have been 100 days after Firstfruits as some say. There are 50 days from Firstfruits to Pentecost. 50 days from Pentecost to the Festival of New Wine and 50 days from the Festival of New Wine to the Festival of New Oil “just before the Feast of Trumpets”.
In “Salvation in The Feasts of Israel…” () it says. “The New Wine Harvest came fifty days or seven weeks after Pentecost… The Olive Oil Harvest. The first fruits of the new olive oil festival comes fourteen weeks after Pentecost just before the feast of trumpets”…
In “Harvest Seasons of Ancient Israel” () it says. “The importance of grapes and olives is illustrated by the fact that the Essenes had booze and oil firstfruits festivals similar to the biblical firstfruits offering for grain. These festivals also indicate the relative timing of these crops. THE NEW WINE FESTIVAL CAME 50 DAYS OR SEVEN WEEKS AFTER PENTECOST. Until new wine was offered no one could drink any of the new juice (Temple move columns 19-21). FOURTEEN WEEKS AFTER PENTECOST. SHORTLY BEFORE THE eat OF TRUMPETS. WAS THE NEW OLIVE OIL FESTIVAL. No one could use new olives until some oil had been offered (columns 21-22).”
Fifty days after Firstfruits. Nisan 16 (April 21. 2008) is Sivan 7. Pentecost (June 10. 2008). Fifty days after Sivan 7 is Tamuz 27 the Festival of New Wine (July 30. 2008). Fifty days after Tamuz 27 is Elul 16 the Festival of New Oil (Sept. 16. 2008). That leaves two weeks until the Feast of Trumpets. At the Last Supper in Mt. 26:29. Jesus said. “But I say unto you. I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine (i e. new wine grape juice) until that day (i e. day of the Pre-Trib Rapture) when I drink it NEW with you in my Father’s kingdom” (i e. in Heaven).
It now seems possible that the Pre-Trib Rapture could be on Aug. 11 this year. If so we would go up in clouds at the same time both Temples went up in smoke on Av 10 according to both Jeremiah and Josephus. The Jews keep Av 9. In 70 AD the fire was started on the premises on Av 9 and spread into the sanctuary like a roaring inferno on Av 10.
Noah knew 7 days before it started to rain. We will have a be Solar Eclipse on Tamuz 29. 5768 (Aug. 1. 2008). That could be a 10-day warning for us and the Festival of New Wine will have already taken place on Tamuz 27 (July 30. 2008). This is the measure of the year that new grape juice is plentiful. That is a roll we have often missed.
In Luke 21:10-36. Jesus said. “Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom: 11And great earthquakes shall be in divers places and famines and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven (northern California now has 1000 fires set by 5000 to 6000 unprecedented lightning strikes; because they legalized gay marriage. God is showing us his displeasure; there are floods in the middle of the USA too)….
25 “And there shall be SIGNS IN THE SUN. AND IN THE MOON (the Moon will hide the light of the Sun on August 1. 2008) and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring…28 And WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO COME TO PASS. THEN LOOK UP. AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS; FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH. 29
“And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree (Israel. Joel 1,7,8) and all the trees (other nations); 30 When they now shoot forth (i e. in the Six-Day War. June 5-10. 1967) ye see and know of your own selves that summer (June 21) is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye when ye see these things go to go know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32 Verily I say unto you. This generation (born in 1967 year of the Six-Day War) shall not pass away till all be fulfilled. 33 Heaven and earth shall go away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 And TAKE HEED to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and SO THAT DAY COME UPON YOU UNAWARES. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the approach of the whole earth. 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.”
Two eartly Temples. Solomon’s and Herod’s went up in smoke on Av 10. The spies returned to Moses on Av 10 with one huge bunch of grapes. Therefore the Pre-Trib Rapture could be on Av 10 (Aug 11. 2008). We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The correlation is good.
Jer 52:12,13 says. “in the FIFTH MONTH (chodesh new moon). IN THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH (AV 10) which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came Nebuzaradan captain of the guard which served the king of Babylon into Jerusalem. And BURNED THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.” Of the temple burning in 70 AD. Josephus said. “So Titus retired into the tower of Antonia and resolved to storm the temple the next day to encamp round about the holy house; but as for that house. God had for certain long ago doomed it to the fire; and now that fatal day was come according to the revolution of ages: IT WAS THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH LOUS. [AB,] (i e.. Av 10) UPON WHICH IT WAS FORMERLY BURNT BY THE KING OF BABYLON…THE SAME MONTH AND DAY WERE NOW OBSERVED. AS I SAID BEFORE. WHEREIN THE HOLY HOUSE WAS BURNT FORMERLY BY THE BABYLONIANS” (Wars. VI. IV. 5. 8).
Isa 18:3-7 says. “ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD. AND DWELLERS ON THE EARTH. SEE YE. WHEN HE LIFTETH UP AN ENSIGN (flag) ON THE MOUNTAINS (kingdoms); and WHEN HE BLOWETH A TRUMPET. HEAR YE. For so the LORD said unto me. I ordain take my be and I will consider (see) in my dwelling place (Heaven) like a alter heat upon herbs and like a cloud of dew IN THE alter OF HARVEST (qatsiyr the harvest as reaped). For afore the harvest when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower he shall both cut off the sprigs (i e. with grapes) with pruning hooks and TAKE AWAY (the wise virgins) and cut down the branches (i e. that have no grapes). They (i e. the foolish virgins) shall be LEFT together unto the fowls of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall SUMMER upon them (i e. the Pre-Trib Rapture will be in the move or pass) and all the beasts of the earth shall WINTER upon them. In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot whose land the rivers have spoiled to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts the mount Zion”.
Isa. 57:1-3 (LXX) says. “See how the just man has perished (abad escaped) and no one lays it to heart: and RIGHTEOUS MEN ARE TAKEN AWAY (acaph. EVACUATED i e. raptured) and no one considers: for THE RIGHTEOUS HAS BEEN REMOVED OUT OF THE WAY OF INJUSTICE” (i e. during the Tribulation).
Song of Sol. 2:10-15 (LXX) says. “My kinsman (redeemer i e.. Christ) answers and says to me. RISE UP. go (i e.. ‘go UP HITHER,’ Rev. 4:1) my companion (the Bride of Christ) my fair one my dove. For behold the winter is past the rain is gone it has departed (i e.. Nisan time of the latter rain is gone). The flowers are seen in the arrive; THE TIME OF PRUNING HAS ARRIVED (i e.. THE CUTTING OFF OF THE FOOLISH LAODICEAN VIRGINS); the voice of the turtle-dove (Christ) has been heard in our land. The fig-tree (Israel) has put forth its young figs (fruit i e. the Messianic Jews) the vines put forth the gift grape (one bunch the Bride group i e. the 1st of 2 Raptures) they furnish a comprehend: ARISE. COME my companion my fair one my dove; yea. COME. Thou art my dove in the shelter of the rock (in Christ) come the wall: shew me thy face and cause me to comprehend thy voice; for thy voice is sweet and thy countenance is beautiful. Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines put forth tender grapes.”
Micah 7:1 says. “Woe is me! for I am as (symbolic language) when THEY HAVE GATHERED (oceph. REMOVED. TAKEN AWAY) THE SUMMER FRUITS (i e. both Raptures happen in the summer). AS THE GRAPEGLEANINGS OF THE VINTAGE: there is no cluster (there are only 2 Raptures) to eat: my soul desired the FIRSTRIPE FRUIT (i e. the 1st Rapture). The GOOD MAN IS PERISHED (abad. ESCAPED i e.. RAPTURED) OUT OF THE EARTH: AND THERE IS NONE UPRIGHT AMONG MEN.”
…a video of a profound TV program by J. R. Church and Gary Stearman of Prophecy in the News whose scholarship I have always greatly respected. A guest on the program is Pastor Mark Biltz whose teaching emphasis is Jewish roots and who has also extensively studied the dates of solar and lunar eclipses from NASA and other astronomical resources and how they line up precisely with Jewish feast days in the year 2015.
Concerning what has been discovered the normally calm and studious J. R. Church exclaimed. “This is phenomenal!” I agree. I have just watched the program two times and do not evaluate I have ever been more encouraged or excited about the soon go of the Lord! I urge you to watch this 30-minute program as soon as possible at -
Get this: Pastor Biltz has discovered that the last time it happened was in 1967 the year of the miraculous Six-Day War when the Temple attach was captured and the one before that was just after Israel became a nation in 1948 all truly historical and prophetic years. This is extremely significant. Those two years. 1967 and 1948 are two of the most significant years in all of history.
They discussed that 2008 is also a sabbatical year and that 2015 minus 7 years is 2008 and the possibility that the 7-year Tribulation will begin in the fall of 2008! In connection with this they noted the ominous signs of imminent war in the Middle East possibly nuclear. If that is true this means the rapture could literally be at the door! Be ready. Do not be caught asleep or your lamps without oil. Be filled with the Spirit and as Jesus exhorted. “Watch!”
My comments updated 5-10“Rosh Hashanah in 2015″ sure got my attention. That will be Tishri 1. 5776 (Monday. September 14. 2015) the Feast of Trumpets. That’s when I expect the Pre-Wrath Rapture the Day of God’s Wrath and the great and terrible Day of the LORD. In the Prophecy in the News Video. J. R. Church said that 2015 was a Sabbatical Year like 2008. That’s true both 5768 (2007/2008) and 5775 (2014/2015) are Sabbatical Years because 5768 and 5775 divide equally by 7. Maybe the Rapture will be in 2008.
Nisan 14 is actually Passover and Nisan 15 is the Feast of Unleavened cover according to Lev. 23:4,5 but Nisan 15 is listed as Passover on today’s Hebrew Calendar probably to blur the connection with Jesus who died as our Passover. Sometimes Passover is used to mean the season of the spring feasts: Passover. Unleavened Bread and Firstfruits. That seems to be how J. R. Church is using it. Below. I put the exact Biblical feast. Nisan 1 is the first day of the Sacred and Regnal calendars. Tishri 1 is the first day of the Civil Calendar.
The four LUNAR Eclipses in 2014/2015 run Nisan. Tishri. Nisan. Tishri. The four SOLAR Eclipses in 2014/2015 ALMOST run Nisan. Tishri. Nisan. Tishri. Two of them fall on the last day of the previous month. All four are on the 29th. They run Nisan 29. Tishri 29. Adar 29 and Elul 29.
On the great and terrible Day of the Lord the asteroids of Rev. 8:8-11 will impact Earth. The mountain burning with fire ordain strike the Mediterranean Sea. The “aster” will obliterate Babylon. The smoke from the impacts ordain blank out the Sun and the new Crescent Moon of Tishri 1.
Mark 13:24 says. “But in those days after that tribulation the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light”. Mt 24:29 says. “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken”.
The beginning of the Tribulation looks like it ordain be on Pentecost. Sivan 6. 5769 (Friday. May 29. 2009). That is 2300 days (Dan. 8:13,14) before Tishri 1. 5776. It looks desire the shortened Tribulation will end on the Feast of Trumpets. Tishri 1. 5776 (Sept 14. 2015) the Day of God’s Wrath that will hit Earth on the Day of the Lord the first day of the Millennium.
Rev 6:12 tells us about that Day of God’s Wrath. It says. “I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood” (i e. from the smoke of the asteroid impacts). The last verse of that chapter says. “For the great DAY OF HIS WRATH is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
Probably no one for that will be the day of the worldwide earthquake when every wall will fall. Eze. 38:18-20 says. “And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel saith the Lord GOD that MY FURY shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of MY WRATH have I spoken. Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that go upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence (lit. face they will see the Sign of the Son of Man in the sky) and the mountains shall be thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the fasten.”
Almost all growing ministries are using media to illustrate their teaching and preaching. It is almost necessary in this media driven culture to communicate using videos music movie clips etc to convey our Biblical messages. Computers and video projection have become a vital part of our communication within the churches and ministries. It is part of being “relevant”. Jesus was relevant to his hearers. He used seeds harvest and sowing to communicate to the agricultural culture of his listeners. He spoke of nets fish and spoke from boats to the fishing communities. The challenge is staying relevant without crossing the line of being irreverent. We must be careful that in our effort to be relevant we do not agree our Christian values.
A number of years ago my family moved into a new area. We were church hunting. Many people were talking of a new church that was meeting in a local YMCA. It was the fastest growing church in an area that had an abundance of churches. We decided to give a try on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. As we drove in the parking lot we were warmly directed to a parking space by the parking ministry. We were greeted at the door with a strong handshake a grimace and directions to the Starbucks coffee and donuts (Yea!!!). So far this church was doing great in the second “R” being
I was even allowed to take my precious Starbucks coffee into the sanctuary! Awesome! The service began without a prayer. Hmmm? An acoustical group came forth and opened with a song made popular at that time by the Dixie Chic’s. “Landslide”. I have used secular songs and changed the words to convey a Christian message to reach kids. I heard that “Amazing Grace” was once a bar song and the writer changed the words. No words were changed in this song but I thought that the pastor was going encourage us on how life’s challenges can come land sliding down on us but Jesus can pull us out of the rubble. I was trying to stay open. The liturgy was not what I was accustomed to as I thought praise and adore was next but the pastor followed up the song with an introduction to a video clip on the big screen. The clipped rolled and the popular characters from the show “Friends” came to the big screen. I am not too pious to say that I have not watched and enjoyed the show but there were parts of the show that sometimes I got convicted for watching and enjoying. On this cut all the characters were sitting around a delay trying to celebrate Thanksgiving. Someone had forgotten the turkey and they were sharing a grilled cheese sandwich each making a comment as they passed it around. The last one to get the sandwich and make a comment was Chandler. His comment was “This s__cks!” The line of being relevant and reverent had been crossed for me. I half heartedly tried to stay open thinking. “I would not have used that clip but surely the pastor ordain redeem this as he used the clip to dilate his message. He preached a good communicate about the memorial stones that Joshua pulled from the Jordan River. He never used the “Landslide” song or the video clip as part of the illustrations to his sermon. They were there just because they were relevant to the culture of that time. Did he go across the lie? Was being reverent compromised to be relevant?
In my first blog I used the illustration of a cake recipe. Too many eggs and the cake is no good. Too much dulcify and only we sugarholics will like it. We must always measure and evaluate our ministries. In our zeal to communicate relevantly we must be careful to not compromise our being reverent towards Jesus. I believe this is one of the greatest challenges to those called to teach and preach today. How far can we go to illustrate our messages before we compromise our Christian values? Please preachers and teachers do not stop in your efforts to relevantly communicate. I personally enjoy a good object lesson or video clip when you communicate. We be to just prayerfully evaluate our efforts and ask the Holy Spirit to help us communicate so we do not bring an offense to our Lord or others.
This “angel” teaches our title engrave Grace about tolerance says a few on target things about God and even encourages her to avoid a revenge kill against her former childhood rapist/abuser who resurfaces. Oh yeah… the man that raped her as a child was apparently a Roman Catholic Priest. But nevermind… I don’t want to go there right now…
This “angel” encourages good works in her life. But… he hangs out in bars with her pours her an occasional beer has drinks with the cast and otherwise stands by or looks the other way while alter engages in a variety of unacceptable behaviors. He says nothing when our cop lady tells lies to get what she wants. He says nothing about the fact that she has wild sex with her partner in the bathroom at the local bar nor when she beds the occasional married man. Finally this “angel” clearly fails to intervene in the murders and other mayhem that routinely take place on the show.
Now… is this how the world sees Christianity? Is it supposed to represent Christianity at all? Would it bring home the bacon if Christianity were a fairly tolerant belief system? What if Christianity were almost meaningless because it cannot really change the world? Is that a happy thought?
Do you think this show illustrates the Christian affect on the world? Is it enough to show Christianity as a non-judgmental spirituality? Is it notable in demonstrating that God offers alter to the unsaved? Are those good things to illustrate? Is there more to Christianity that this?
Using a little legal language for sake of an example….. Christians are called to be the agents of God in this world. An “agent” can act for the one who sent him - or his “principal”. An agent has the legal rights of the principal and should both act as the principal (to represent and safeguard reputation) and should be treated as the principal when the principal is not present. The Agent can sign contracts on behalf of the principal - thereby BINDING the principal to PERFORM a contract.
The Example: Jesus said. “If you have seen me you have seen the Father”. Jesus often said he and the Father were “ONE”. Being one is more than being an Agent. It is a mystery of the Faith. I propose that the best way we might understand this from earthly experience seems to be the concept of Agency. However. I fully cognise that this is more than agency that Jesus speaks about.
The Charge: Before Christ left this earth he prayed for us - that we would be ONE in Him just as He is ONE in the FATHER. He also gave us the “Keys to the Kingdom” saying whatever we BIND on earth would be BOUND in heaven and whatever we LOOSED on earth would be LOOSED in heaven. Do you know the verses for these quotations? Maybe somebody will post a comment with the bible addresses?
SO HERE IS WHERE IT GETS POWERFUL: If we are one in Christ and Christ is one in the Father then if you have seen me - you have seen THEM. By the power of the Holy Spirit - we are ONE. What I do here. He ratifies or performs from there. Hmmm…. What I condemn. He condemns. What I forgive. He forgives. What I promise or contract for. He will perform. Can you say “OMG”.
Rather than filling me with Pride or Arrogance this concept is humbling. I aspire to DO God rather than know ABOUT God. I have reached this pinnacle of the faith on occasion but being an imperfect vessel this certainly does not happen as often as I desire. Nor does the experience last as long as I wish. However. I strive as Paul did to press onward finish the race attain the prize of my Holy Calling.
BTW: If a prize is worth attaining it might be ok to enjoy the attainment. It’s OK to enjoy the prize of our calling to BE God instead of just know ABOUT God. So don’t give me a load about False Humility. God is worshipped when I enjoy the attainment of the mystery of DOING His work here on earth.
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