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Love...hopes all things…I Cor. 13:7
Persevering http://www.persevering.org/
As our world keeps changing more and more each day, we will
find the strength to go on, if we have HOPE in our heart. If
friends and family have left us, if jobs fail, if the money runs
out, what is there to HOPE for?
Consider this…..
"His compassions fail not…they are new every morning:
Great is Thy Faithfulness"[Lamentations
3:22,23].
We must seek out the goodness of God
which we once took for granted. We must maintain an
"Attitude of Gratitude",
thanking God always I Thessalonians
5:18 …. each hour, minute and second of every
day, if we are to prevail over the Darkness.
We are soon to enter the Great Tribulation…the last 42
months of this Age. Wars, Sicknesses, and instability abound.
What Rock can we rely on that moves not?
"On Christ the solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand." Famous Hymn .....[also see Psalm 18]
"My Hope is Built" (The Solid Rock)
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/y/myhopeis.htm
Jesus has promised that He Himself will be with us TO THE END of
this Age…no matter what. Matthew
28:20 He is the Good Shepherd John 10 that will not
abandon His own as He sees the wolf (666 System) coming. We must
TRUST in His care, no matter what befalls us. The Holy Spirit is
with Believers always and in all
ages.
MORE THAN
CONQUERORS .....Romans 8
"Who shall separate us from the LOVE OF
CHRIST? (Or His Holy Spirit)
shall Tribulation [including the Great Tribulation] , or
distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril,
or sword [including all means of death, even beheading]?As it is
written,"For THY sake we are killed ALL THE DAY LONG;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
MODERN DAY MARTYRS
.....Rachel and Cassie
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/little.html
Hear the engraving words of Cassie Bernall committing her life to
Christ:
"Now I have given up on
everything else--
I have found it to be the only way to really know Christ and to
experience the mighty power that brought Him back to life again;
and to find out what it means to suffer and to die with Him.
So, whatever it takes, I will be one who lives in the fresh
newness of life
of those who are alive from the dead."
Please see "Cassie Bernall" www.denverpost.com/news/shot0423i.htm
Rachel Joy Scott also voiced her unwavering committment to Jesus:
"I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus;
I am not going to justify my faith to them....and I am not going
to hide the light that God has put into me.
If I have to sacrifice everything , I will. I will take it.
If my friends have to become my enemies for me to be with my best
friend Jesus, then that's fine with me."
"Ya know, I always knew that part of being a Christian is
having enemies; but I never thought my "friends" were
going to be those enemies. It's all good. I'm just a loner
now."
penned by Rachel 4-20-98
......martyred for her faith 4-20-99 Littleton, Colorado
www.racheljoyscott.com
Both of these young people,
along with others at Columbine gave their 100% when their hour
came. They were able to this by the grace of God, and by having
committed themselves TOTALLY to Christ.
Cassie used the phrase, "whatever
it takes"....
and Rachel said "If I
have to sacrifice everything, I will."
Both sacrificed their lives for the love of Jesus Christ.
Great is their reward in heaven....
"to him who overcomes
will I grant to sit with Me in My throne." Revelation 3:21
Nay, in all these things we are more than
conquerors
through Him (Jesus) that LOVED US (and died for us).
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities (demons), nor powers (governments),
nor things present (horrors...terrors), nor things to come (
persecution, martyrdom),
nor height (satellite surveillance...Iridium, Echelon), nor depth
,
nor any other creature
(computers, technologies, digitized images, holograms…..
not any creature of any kind...nor martial law, a police state,
nor the loss of our liberities)
shall be able to separate us from THE LOVE OF GOD,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35-39
(The only thing that separates us is habitual, willful unrepentant sin).
CORRIE AND BETSIE
This was the courage and strength that Corrie Ten Boom and her
sister Betsie had
as they faced the 'nakedness' (vs.
35) of each Friday inspection in the Nazi
death-camp.
www.soon.org.uk/true_stories/holocaust.htm
[The Hiding Place;
John and Elizabeth Sherrill; Spire Books….pg.195/196.]
(AUDIO-CASSETTE as well as Book)
They remembered the nakedness of Our Lord as He hung upon the
cross for 6 hours,
while others sat down and watched [Matthew
27:36].
Corrie and Betsie identified with the suffering and ignominy that
Christ suffered on the cross, and that gave them the grace to
bear their ignominy and humiliation at each inspection. [Psalm 22:17 b]
Betsie became a Holocaust martyr, and Corrie later went on to
share their powerful testimony that God's love can reach the
deepest pits of hell designed by man.
Their amazing witness is found in the book, "The Hiding
Place".
KARLA FAYE
Christ was gawked at in His vulnerability, just like the
courtroom-cameras of today gloat
over the intimidation given the accused. TV is the new Roman
Colisseum.
(Web-cast executions are now the 'entertainment' de jour.) What
an example Karla Faye Tucker gave us on Feb. 3, 1998, as an
overcomer of world-wide intimidation.
Even though Karla had committed
murder, she was a totally rehabilitated overcomer by the power of
the Holy Ghost. She had become a Born-Again Believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ and gave a powerful witness and testimony. Ezekiel
18:21 says:
"But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful
and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die."
Many within the Christian community denounced the decsion to have
Karla executed. Execution is for reprobates (the unregenerate,
those without a conscience,
conscience-seered).
Karla was a beautiful and shining light. She was free from
the bloodguiltiness of her past, just like Moses and David and
Paul the Apostle were free from their past. Acts 20:26 and Psalm
51:14
THE FOUR
ANCHORS
OF THE BLESSED HOPE
Is there only death ahead for all newly-committed Believers
living in the Great
Tribulation? Not necessarily. It appears from Scripture that they
too can HOPE for a translation, although it is against all odds. Most
living in the Great Tribulation (but not necessarily all)
will die or be martyred [Rev.
7:14-17 and Rev. 20:4].
"It is of the LORD's
mercies (hesed) that we are not consumed." Lamentations 3:22
As the Sea of Life churns out storm after storm of unending
perils [Acts 27], we
are exhorted to cast ourselves upon our Anchor of HOPE, looking
for a better day ……
"They cast four anchors……and wished for the
day." Acts 27:29
The ANCHOR has always been a symbol of hope.....something that
gives us security and confidence. Hebrew 6:19 "Which hope we
have as an anchor for the soul.". Our hope is based on
EVIDENCE of things hoped for, that came to pass. Heb.11:1.
Since our hope is in Jesus, what evidences do we have from the
past, that we too will be with Him ? We have the confidence that
those who died ahead of us are with our High Priest already. We
have Three evidences of translations, and one Day to look forward
to ("wished for the day") that will bring the final
Remnant into the Presence of God.
(Please see Chapter 5:"Bringing in the Sheaves" for details.)
Let's examine the Four Anchors of the Blessed Hope [Titus:2:13] throughout the
Church Age.....the evidences of secured trust in our Lord.
FIRST ANCHOR "When He ascended up on High,
He led captivity captive"
Ephesians 4:8.......10 "far above all
Heavens"
The Barley Sheaf
The Messianic Saints of Jesus' Day looked for His glorious
appearing [Luke 2:25].
They anchored their HOPE in Him.
He rewarded those Messianic Believers, who died ahead of Him,
with a Resurrection-Translation [Matt.
27:52,53 and I
Corinth. 15:53-57]
combined with
His own Resurrection-Ascension from BETHANY
[Luke 24:50,51 and Ephesians 4:8].
These were the
first anchor of the Blessed Hope.
On that Easter Sunday, those who were resurrected along with
Jesus
(the "Wave-SHEAF Offering) "came into the holy city and
appeared unto many"
[Matt.27:53]
On Easter Sunday evening, Our Lord ascended with His "SHEAF
of Firstfruits"
[Leviticus 23:10,11]
to wave before the Father. This fulfilled the statute for the
"day
after the Sabbath" within Passover for the Wave Offering.
This Ascension is not the one recorded in
the Book of Acts Chapter One,
from the Mount of Olives. Bethany and the Mt. of Olives are two
distinct places...the Ascensions are two distinct times.
SECOND
ANCHOR....the
Midnight Rapture (just before the Great Trib)
this season is
knowable.... 1st Thessalonians 5
Barley and Wheat
Harvest.....both Messianic and Gentile Believers
(2 loaves of the Wave Offering)
The Wise Virgins of the Church, who are watching
and praying and keeping their
lamps filled with the Oil of the Holy Spirit in their lives, are
ready when the
Bridegroom comes [ Matthew 25:1-13].
At Midnight
[in the midst of the First 3 1/2 years and
just before the last 42 months]
they are caught up to meet our Lord in the Rapture.
[I Thessalonians 4:13-19].
Of all the four translations, this is the only one referred to
as the "Rapture". It is unparalleled in history. These
saints relied upon the second anchor of the
Blessed Hope.
This fulfills the Leavened "Bread of the Firstfruits"[Lev. 23:20] waved before the
Father.
(The two loaves: Barley and Wheat.)
THIRD ANCHOR pre-wrath rapture.....also called Cockcrowing-Rapture
timing: UNKNOWABLE....Rev. 16:15
Fruit Harvest,
Ingathering............
For those of us who are reading this article after
the Midnight Rapture has taken
place, we are not left without HOPE. We have an APOCALYPTIC HOPE
of being translated, though the odds are slim. We must be a
committed Believer in the
Lord Jesus Christ, living outside the 666 system of
the Beast, having never taken
the Mark on our forehead or hand. We most likely at this point
have survived the unsurvivable, eeking out food and shelter with
hostilities and distrust all around.
[Luke 18:8].
Many of our family and friends have been martyred,
accepting "a better
resurrection" [Hebrews 11:35
and Revelation 3:21
"thrones"].
Many of our friends and family have died due to dire
circumstances [ Rev. 6:8
and
Rev. 14:13]. As the
months wear on, and we are nearing the end of the Great
Tribulation, we wonder
if we too will die from martyrdom or starvation, or disease etc.
We may....... and we may not. God has a way and a grace for each
one individually :
Isaiah 28:27-29...."For
the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument,
neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin;
but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with
a rod.
Bread corn is bruised; because He will not ever be threshing it,
nor break it with the wheel of His cart, nor bruise it with His
horsemen."
See C. Spurgeon's Threshing
I Corinthians 10:13....."God is faithful, Who will not suffer you
to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the
temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able
to bear it."
Psalm 18:25,26....."With the merciful Thou
wilt show Thyself merciful;
With an upright man Thou wilt show Thyself upright;
With the pure Thou wilt show Thyself pure:
And with the froward (aggressive) Thou wilt show Thyself froward
(aggresive)."
God always works by degrees and priorities.
"He shall deliver thee in six
troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee."
Job 5: 19.............for some, referring also
to the 7 vials of Rev. 16.
"O LORD.......in wrath remember
mercy." Habakkuk 3:2
SUICIDE
We need not be hopeless. "We are
saved by HOPE" [ Romans
8:24].
The world will tell us that we are now hopeless. They will tell
us to just give up and die.
Satan will tempt many to commit suicide. He is a liar... John 8:44.
[ Suicide is a permanent
solution to a temporary problem ].
Isaiah 41:10 "Fear thou not; for I am with
thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee;
yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness.
Webpage on Suicide:
http://members.tripod.com/~GinnyL/suicide_or_thecross.htm
Counseling by email Adamstown
Gospel Church
Resist the Negative JD Hoke Index of Sermons
While we are on the subject
of suicide, let us consider for a moment
"assisted-suicide".
"Assisted-suicide" is cruel...it takes
away God's opportunity of dealing with your immortal soul in your
pain ("to make them white"...Daniel 11:35). And to
think the System blasphemously calls it 'mercy-killing'.
Even eliminating the mentally-ill cannot be justified; they are
placed within families for reasons higher and more nobler than
Machiavellian man can conceive.
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/child.html
"It's an issue of control," says Lanny Berman,
executive director of the American Association of Suicidology.
"All people want to have some control over their lives, and
that includes the nature and timing of their deaths. The notion
of having death happen to you is less viable than being in charge
of it."
http://detnews.com/2001/nation/0109/14/a12-294436.htm
The above statement reveals that PRIDE [ Control ] is one factor
involved in suicide.
LIFE IS PRECIOUS
We are entering the final countdown of this Age; a time of
testing and trials like never
before:
"For then shall be Great Tribulation, such as was not since
the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall
be."[Matthew 24:21].
People will be giving-up and committing suicide over financial
loss, unemployment and constant stress. Is this what is referred
to as "Death followed by Hell" for those who take their
own lives? [Rev. 6:8]
While it is not up to us to judge, God will be the
final say on each soul. Only He can know
the decisions involved. However, life is precious.
There is no "eternal security" for
the believer. Sin has consequences. Please see
"Turning over a New Leaf"
Many people feel that suicide is the end of it all, but in fact
it's only the beginning.
Satan lies to the distraught, telling them: 'Get it over with'. But
that is a lie. Nothing is "over with".....it
is actually only just beginning. A jeopardized eternity awaits
the Soul that slams the Door of Life in God's Face.....
("Abandon ALL hope, you who enter here"--
reads the doorpost over hell, in Dante's Inferno.)
To kill one's self is to deny yourself a chance for
repentance. You have forfeited your fate irreparably. We must
realize that Hell is real. [Mark
9:43-48 and Isaiah
66:24...."where their worm dieth not, and the
fire is not quenched."]
We are told in Ezekiel 3:18
and in Ezek. 33:6 that
as the messengers of God, we are
accountable for warning against eternal consequences.
The "doctors of death"[euthanasia/abortion]
across our land are also accountable.
"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living
God." [Hebrews 10:31]
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I have set before you
Life and Death, Blessing and Cursing:
THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE,
that both thou and thy seed may live." Deuteronomy 30:19
RESISTING SECULAR
HUMANISM (NEW AGE )
How much better it is to "Cast all your cares upon the Lord,
for He careth for you."
Casting ALL our cares upon the Lord means resisting the secular
humanistic religion of the
"counselors...psychologists"....sent en masse at times
of great events.
We have a "Wonderful Counselor" (Isaiah 9:6) and his
name is Jesus. We must cast all our cares upon Him.
[I Peter 5:7] Our God
is a "God of ALL comfort; Who comforts us in ALL our
tribulation" [2 Corinthians
1:3,4].
Turn to Him now in your sorrow or loss.
"He is able to keep you from falling"[Jude 24].
He will give you the strength you need to go on, one day at a
time.
God loves you very much!
Life is precious, and YOU are precious to Him! Always remember
that this too
shall pass.
Let the Book of JOB
comfort you.
May we all "against hope believe in hope". [Romans 4:18]
OUR GOD OF
HOPE....Romans 15:13
Never give up hope. Hold On!
Hold on to that Blessed Third Anchor of Hope. It's there for you.
Christ saved it just for you:
"That…we might have a strong consolation, who
have fled for refuge to lay hold
upon the HOPE set before us:
Which HOPE we have as an anchor of the soul
, both sure and stedfast."
Hebrews 6:18,19.
We must pray always that we be counted worthy to escape [Luke 21:36].
Let no man take your crown [your helmet of hope… I Thessalonians 5:8]
from you. Our Lord will come to us in the Second Watch
[Luke 12:38…Wedding
was the First Watch] He will come to us on the Stormy Sea of
life.
"The Anchor Holds!".....from "Concert of a Lifetime"/Ray
Boltz
HOPE UNTO THE
END....1 Peter 1:13
"it
is the last time" 1 John 2:18
Persevering http://www.persevering.org/
Our God is a God of HOPE [Romans 15:13]. We are to
"HOPE UNTO THE END"….[I Peter 1:13].
Let no man take that Blessed Hope from you. Each night as the sun
sets, hope for the dawn. And each day as satanic oppression gets
darker, hope in God's provision.
It will come. He will come………
Tucked far along in the Book of Revelation (Chapter 16 verse 15)
is the
Cockcrowing rapture. This occurs just before Armageddon and the 7
vials. This the darkest hour before dawn.
"Behold, I come as a thief (no certain time of expectancy
for this third translation).
Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he
walk naked
(not self-deceived), and they see his shame." [Rev./Apocalypse 16:15]
We must be wearing the garment of Christ's righteousness...
trusting in His Blood-redemption at the Cross for the forgiveness
of our sins; not trusting in our own merits.
(For "garments" see
Matt.22:11-13; Job 29:14; Rev. 3:5; and Rev. 19:8 )
This translation takes place
before the battle of Armageddon, hence the two verses being
following one another in Revelation Chapter 16.
It is the darkest hour just before dawn, the time of Cockcrowing.
This is the Ingathering of Lev.
23:34, 39 "when ye have
gathered in the fruit of the land"also called
"Tabernacles".
(see also Rev. 14:14-16
and Matt. 13:30).
Again, this Translation is the rare exception---not
the rule. This is not to be considered
as an alternative to the Midnight Rapture…it is a last
resort for the
"Unawares/ unprepared"
FOURTH
ANCHOR...Messianic
Remnant
Gleanings; Third
Watch
The Sheaf
remaining...Deuteronomy 24:19
And lastly, at the last trump of Translation
[I Corinth. 15:51,52]
the Messianic Remnant will be changed in a
twinkling of an eye…from corruptible to
incorruptible…from mortality to immortality.
The First Anchor of Messianic Jews were
Resurrected and Translated/Ascended on Easter evening, as we
explained. This Fourth and Last Anchor of
the Blessed Hope will be Translated/Changed on Millennial Morning
and remain on the earth, reunited with the First Anchor of
Messianic Jews [Mark 13:27].
Together they, and all those who were Translated/Raptured, will
live and reign with Christ for 1,OOO years [Rev. 20:6].
This Fourth Anchor of Hope, this Remnant, waited the
longest for Messiah Jesus. For them, "the Night (of the
Great Tribulation) was far spent" [Romans
13:12]. They looked for that 'Light that shineth in
a dark place', until that day dawned….until that DAY-STAR
[Jesus] arose in their hearts. [ 2
Peter 1:19].
" I AM the Bright and Morning Star…the Root and
Offspring of David." [Rev.22:16]
The Remnant kept their Blessed Hope unto the very, very
end……..
" I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah, and though He tarry, nevertheless do I believe." Maimonides
With tears of joy they at long last will say,
"Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord."
"Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai".
"They shall call on My Name and I will hear them:
I will say, 'It is My people':
And they shall say,
'The LORD is my God." Zechariah
13:9
What a Joyous Hope!
*Through a Dimly Lit Corridor...access
"Poetry" by Marshall Beeber
These are the Remnant-Gleanings of Leviticus 23:20 B and RUTH Ch. 2:9-17....
"The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given
thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come
to trust."
THE
"THOMASES"....millennial Gentiles
Fourth
Watch...Mark 6: 48-51
For those (Gentiles) who lived "justly, loved mercy,
and walked humbly with their God"[Micah
6:8]…. and yet held off professing Jesus until
they saw him, they will inherit
the kingdom of Christ's reign [Matt.25:34].
They are the Millennial survivors who are not translated, but go
on with life, re-populate the earth and eventually die.[Isaiah 65:20].
Then they will be resurrected after the 1,000 years are
over. [Rev.20:5]
They are like Thomas the Apostle who, on the eighth day,
acknowledged Jesus.
"Blessed are they who believe and yet not see"[John 20:29]
(The Third Anchor Group were translated;
…the Millennial Survivors are not, but
continue a Godly life here on earth for a time.)
MARK 13:35
"Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the Master
of the house cometh,
at even (Easter Evening…..First Anchor)
or at Midnight (The Rapture…..Second Anchor)
or at the Cockcrowing ("Gallicantu"……Third
Anchor)
or in the Morning (Millennial Morning…..Fourth Anchor).
There we have it…the Four Anchors.
We are to hold on tightly to our Apocalyptic
Hope…our Blessed Hope…JESUS
no matter what!
We must keep ourselves in the LOVE OF GOD [Jude 21].
For " thus we shall ever be with the Lord." I Thessalonians 4:17
May we all meet with Him there in the soon-coming Kingdom.
Amen. Alleluia!
Jesus is our Anchor of Hope
http://spindleworks.com/anchor/anchsremon.htm
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