Showing posts with label rapture. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

COMMENTARY: Is Jesus the Thief in the Night? | Brian Hennessy ISRAEL TODAY

COMMENTARY: Is Jesus the Thief in the Night?

Thursday, December 10, 2015 |  Brian Hennessy  ISRAEL TODAY
I remember years ago watching the popular 1970’s rapture movie, “Thief in the Night,” with my two oldest children. A week later they came home early from school and their mother and I were not there. They told us later how frightened they became thinking we’d been raptured and left them behind.
That’s when I realized something wasn’t kosher about a teaching that could create such fear in children. Especially when you add in all the chaos that would ensue when pilots and bus drivers suddenly disappear.
As most know, this Rapture teaching was popularized by John Nelson Darby in the early eighteen hundreds. To his credit he departed from Replacement Theology after seeing the prophets had promised a future restoration of Israel. But he stumbled in believing the Church and Israel would remain two separate people of God with different inheritances. He believed Christians would go to Heaven and the Jews would inherit the Promised Land.
To fulfill his understanding he taught Jesus would come secretly like a “thief in the night” to snatch away all Christians before the Tribulation, no matter how worldly, and bring us to Heaven. The Jews, after being brought to repentance as a result of the Tribulation, would set up their Davidic kingdom in Israel to rule the world for the Millennium. 
But Darby’s theology was fundamentally flawed because it divided the body of Messiah in half based on ethnicity. For we know “there is neither Jew nor Greek…for you are all one in Messiah Yeshua” (Gal 3:28). He did not see God had only one kingdom, one people, and that all who were chosen in Messiah will reign with him here on earth! 
As for Yeshua coming suddenly upon us as a thief at night, that is the last thing a believer would want to experience. Paul’s warning couldn’t be clearer: “For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night… but you brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief...so then, LET US NOT SLEEP AS THE OTHERS DO, but let us be alert and sober” (1Thess. 5:2-4,6). 
It is the inattentive, unprepared believer deceived by a world system with its strong religious component, along with the unbelievers, who will be caught napping. Yeshua likened that believer to the head of the house, who, if he had stayed awake, “would not have allowed his house to be broken into” (Matt: 24:42-44). The same warning was given to the dozing saints at Sardis: “If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you” (Rev. 3:3-5). 
The one thing we know for sure about the Lord’s coming is we won’t know for sure when he is coming. Even he didn’t know when he’d be back! Pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib? Who knows? Only the Father. That’s why we are “to be dressed in readiness and keeps our lamps lit” (Luke 12:35) – listening daily to His voice, and walking in love, faith and obedience. 
Although we won’t know the day or hour, multiple signs will alert us “that he is near, even right at the door” (Matt 24:33).  Yes, the worldly ones will be taken by surprise “as in the days of Noah,” but Noah and his family were literally on board with it all before God shut the door. In the same way, Peter tells us to expect a salvation “ready to be revealed in the last time… and to fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 1:5,13).
Darby was right that the Lord will come for his own before he returns to visit fiery judgment upon the nations and sets up his kingdom. But this salvation will not beam us up to Heaven. Nor will it be for carnal Christians. Nor will it be in secret.  It will be for those who are ready, and will take place in front of the whole world as a witness to the truth about Yeshua. “The Lord has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations, that all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our God” (Isa. 52:10). 
I believe it will be seen as nothing less than the long-awaited restoration of Ephraim with Judah in Messiah. “Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand, the remnant of His people who will remain” (Isa. 11:11) 
But nobody is going anywhere until “the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed” (2 Thess. 2:4). 

Brian Hennessy is the author of Valley of the Steeples, available at:ketchpublishing/BrianHennessyBooks.htm
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Be ready. END OF DAYS - The Awakened Church Empowered by Holy Spirit Fire - latest book by Steve Martin - Only $5.99 Paperback & $2.99 Kindle



END OF DAYS 

- The Awakened Church 
Empowered by 
Holy Spirit Fire

by Steve Martin


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Here is a taste of what is in it...

I sincerely believe we are living in the end of days, as prophetic words have been rapidly fulfilled since the re-birth of Israel in 1948. Jesus Himself had said that when we see the fig tree budding, we would know that the time is near.

This book, my 10th published in the last three years (all between 2013-2015) and before my 61st birthday, is very special to me. I sense it is something the Lord put on my heart to do several months ago, giving it that “urgency of getting it done and out there” feel as I wrote. Originally these chapters were Now Think On This messages. It was amazing to me how many were done in September and October of 2015 alone, as the Holy Spirit would speak a word or sentence to me, and I would write on soon after. I am truly grateful for His impartation, and acknowledge Jesus (Yeshua), my Lord and Savior, above all.

The photos I have included in the book are primarily ones I took (exceptions noted), both to document history and to share another way the Lord also speaks to His Body. Capturing moments of the Holy Spirit action, especially in the two “fire” photos, were exciting. In both cases I wasn’t even aware of it until they were “developed”.

My heart yearns for the glory of the Lord Jesus to be revealed in the earth, touching the hearts and souls of men, women and children in each and every nation.

As we see the days become darker, we believe that the Lord God of Israel will show Himself strong, and prove that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, as He says He is.

I dedicate this book to you who also long to walk in strong faith, courage and commitment to the end, for whatever the Lord has planned and purposed for you and I.

Together, as the Body of Christ, and the glorious Bride that we will become, we will one day see His Kingdom arrive, His will be done, even on earth as it is in heaven.

The Gospel, the Good News of salvation, will be declared, and that which is just and good will for all eternity overcome the evil one and his cohorts

I trust this book will both encourage you and cause you to re-commit yourself  - to know the Lord’s will for your life, do all you can to allow Him to direct your steps, and be the light in these dark days we desperately need and have been called upon by the Lord to be. I am with you, arm in arm.

May His grace and empowerment, through His Holy Spirit, be yours!

Ahava (love in Hebrew) and shalom (peace),

Steve Martin



CHAPTERS

1. Israel – The One To Watch

2. The Great Falling Away

3. Believing Is Hard

4. A Head Start In Heaven

5. Sometimes I Feel Like Jonah

6. Searching For God

7. You May Get What You Ask For

8. Protection for Purpose in the Last Times

9. So That Is Why

10. NOW Is The Time

11. We Need To Hear God

12.You Are The One

13.Truth

14.Fear

15. Time Is Speeding Up

16. What Love Are You Talking About?

17. His Word. For All Eternity.


18. Make It Count

19. Bold & Beautiful

20. We Need His Gifts

21. Keep Walking

22. I Wish We’d All Been Ready

23. The Rapture

24. The Awakened Church Will Rise Again

25. When It’s All Been Said and Done

Published by Martin Lighthouse Publishing - Nov. 2015


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About the Author

Steve Martin served with three Christian ministries from 1987-2010, all having a
national and international outreach focus. During that time he made 14 ministry trips 
to Israel, China, India, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom. 

On his overseas journeys Steve enjoyed sharing written journal entries with family and 
friends back home, through Internet media. His light-hearted stories gave an up 
close and personal touch for those reading along. Many could imagine being there 
themselves. 

His extensive collection of photos taken during these trips, of both 
local scenery and common people on the streets, has touched thousands through 
their varied images. In 2010, Steve and Laurie began Love For His People, Inc, 
a 501©3 non-profit humanitarian aid ministry. This work touches the natural 
and spiritual lives of those around them with needed encouragement and strength. 

His regular messages Now Think On This, posted on the Love For Now Think of This 
blog and Facebook, feature words of spiritual enrichment, plus selected photos. 
Since 1994, Steve and his good wife Laurie have lived in the Charlotte, NC area, 
after having homes in Illinois, Michigan and Florida. 

Now married for more than 38 years, they enjoy their four adult children and spouses (Josh and Chelsie, Ben, Hannah and Jonathan, Christen and Andrew), along with our seven additional 
grandchildren – Daniel, Logan, Dylan, Jensen, Payton, Jack and Levi. 

While continuing to serve organizations with his accounting skills, he enjoys writing, 
photography and growing the ministry of Love For His People, Inc.

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Paperback Product Details

  • Paperback: 138 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (November 2, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1518866115
  • ISBN-13: 978-1518866111
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
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Published by Martin Lighthouse Publishing 2015




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Publication Date: November 1, 2015
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Phil Keaggy - Time HD - Classic Rare Footage Video!!!


Phil Keaggy - Time
Classic rare footage!


  







Phil Keaggy – "Time" Lyrics
Well He hasn't always been around
And He won't always be.
But He's on the move at this moment
Measuring life for you and me.

I fear we all submit to him
Existing anxiously,
And no one is able to turn him off
Except the Lord who holds the key.

When the Lord stops him, that'll be it,
Too late for apologies.
Too late to forgive your brother,
Too late to get on your knees.
When the Lord stops him, that'll be it,
Too late to help the needy
And worst of all it's too late to turn
You must face eternity.

His name is Time and he's coming to an end.
His name is Time where will you be my friend?
His name is Time and he's coming to an end.

His name is Time where will you be my friend?

Most people think he'll never stop
He'll go on perpetually,
But old man time is running out
And he'll cease eventually.

When the Lord stops him, that'll be it,
Too late for apologies.
Too late to forgive your brother,
Too late to get on your knees.

When the Lord stops him, that'll be it,
Too late to help the needy
And worst of all it's too late to turn
You must face eternity.

His name is Time and he's coming to an end.
His name is Time where will you be my friend?
His name is Time and he's coming to an end.
His name is Time where will you be my friend?
Songwriters: KEAGGY, PHILIP T.
Time lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group


Published on Jul 21, 2014
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