Monday, November 20, 2017

A final word to the descendants of the Reformation

The Reformers never should have involved themselves in the work of bringing out the Bible for the world to hear heavenly truth instead of humanism and spiritualism? Is that right? And no differently, the eleven disciples never should have invested 3½ years with Jesus? The disciples ministry with the Lord ended in the same shameful demise and the same apparent failure. “Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee.” (John 21:3). And Peter and his motley crew all went a-fishing. Their earlier work was demolished and their hopes were shattered. They were fulfilling a prophecy, “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man that is My Fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn Mine hand upon the little ones.” (Zech. 13:7).

But the Lord met them as He did Elijah.

“And he [Elijah] came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
And He said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small Voice.
And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a Voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?” (1Ki. 19:9-13).

The final generation of the great Reformation will have Elijah’s experience. Many who have called themselves Protestants have given themselves over to the strong delusion that God sent them. “Them that perish” believe the lie because they “had pleasure in unrighteousness”, and “received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.” (2Thess. 2:10,12). They perish; they are cut off from God.

“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: 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.” (Zech. 13:8,9).

We have our marching orders. “And the LORD said unto him [Elijah], Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus… Yet I have left Me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.” (1Ki. 19:15,18).

It may seem that all the world has wondered after the Beast of Babylon, but the Lord has many thousands who have not bowed the knee to the self-acclaimed vicar of Christ, and kissed him. The Reformation is not finished. We must read and heed the word of the Lord to Elijah, “Go, return.” Return to the work of reformation that we have temporarily abandoned. The devil has made it look like the Reformation was a mistake and an utter failure. But, the devil is not the master of the Elijahs who have sought to protect the great work of reform and of warning the people of the Lord. It is true that the worshipers of Baal and Ashtoreth have “forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword”. But, the Lord has always only had a small number to be His spokespersons. He will rally them again. He will fit them up again. They will hear a word behind them, “Return”. “Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” (Rev. 10:11).

True, Protestantism has given up the ghost. We are spiritually slain.

“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.” (Rev. 11:8,19).

Our faith has been desolated because for 150 years and more we have accepted the lies of Satan that the Reformation was a consummate failure. Now we are full of the Great Whore’s gift of self-indulgence, and full of the rebuke of our God. Scripture must interpret scripture. The Revelation 11:8 prophecy can only be understood by the word of the Lord to Isaiah. “These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.” (Isa. 51:19,20).

But, our Lord will turn everything around. He has prophesied a destruction of the Beast and false prophet; and it will happen. “And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.” (Rev. 11:11-13).

After the prophetic time that represents Elijah’s judgment upon the Old Testament Israel (3 1/2 days), the people who know God will awaken out of their spiritual slump. They will respond to the call from heaven and return to their work of calling the world to revival and reformation. They will be overcomers; they will obtain the victory. They will again spiritually sit with their Reformation fathers, together with Jesus on His throne, “giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.” (Col. 1:12,13). They will be able to say, God “hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:6).

And the Church that has enslaved billions will be shaken to the core and will fall. Out of the rubble will come “whosoever will” “take the water of life freely” (Rev. 22:17). “The little ones” (Zech. 13:7, cf Matt. 18:2,3) will “fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come”, and they will “worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” (Rev. 14:7).

All of the priests of Baal will be routed and discomfited before the Lord at His Latter Rain, as those priests of the Beast see their plans for global human enslavement go up in smoke. They have been spiritually slain, and are ready for the lake of fire that is prepared for the Beast and the false prophet at the Lord’s return. The spirit of Ashtoreth Queen of heaven (i.e. the Holy Spirit of Mary, Queen of heaven) will not exist among the 144,000 or among the great multitude of harvested souls waiting for their Lord to return.

As those Reformers had been filled with the fury of the Lord and His rebuke, now they will be full of the glory of the Lord as the waters that cover the sea. Jesus will then have a people who are refined as gold and can stand in the day when the heavens fall.

“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 of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
And the heaven 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, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” (Rev. 6:12-17).

“The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?” (Isa. 33:14).

“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1Thess. 4:16,17). “In My Fathers house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:2,3).

Jesus will come again, as He promised. And every eye will see Him. “Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.” (Rev. 1:7).

There will be no secret rapture. There never was such a thing in the Bible. The Lord will not come like a thief in the night, but “the day of the Lord” (2Pet. 3:10) will. Jesus will return unexpectedly; but He will be seen and felt. “The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for Him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt. 24:50,51). The Lord Jesus will be seen, heard, and felt by everyone, and feared by all the liars and deceivers. The heat will be as unbearable for the priests of Baal as it was for the Protestant people who those priests trapped alive in the World Trade Center before they demolitioned it. The priests of Baal and their high priest will know what they have done. They will experience every bit of it. Their human sacrifices to Satan will receive an equivalent judgment upon them. Thus saith the Lord. “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” (Rev. 13:10). “If any man have an ear, let him hear.” (Vs. 9).

“The Lord knoweth them that are His” (Rev. 13:10), and therefore He knows those who aren’t His. They will call to Jesus and declare themselves worthy to enter through the gates of the city. But, He will only answer them, “I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from Me, all ye workers of iniquity.” (Luke 13:24). They will dare to retort, “You must be mistaken. Open the door!” (Luke 13:25). But, the Lord will humbly, but firmly confess, “I never knew you. Depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matt. 7:23). They will insist, “But we have destroyed all the cults, and cast out all the heretics and those Arian devils, for the greater glory of the Church! We killed your enemies for you!” That will be the last straw, and Jesus will give His final word, “Bind [them] hand and foot, and take [them] away, and cast” “the unprofitable servant[s] into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt. 25:30; 22:13). “Take these priests of Beelzebub, these devouring and tormenting locusts of the fifth and sixth trumpets, and their general, their 950 prophets of the Magisterium, and their high priest of the Beast, and throw them all into the lake of fire” “burning with brimstone.” (Rev. 19:20). They “shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Rev. 20:10).


“And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of My mountains: and Mine elect shall inherit it, and My servants shall dwell there. And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for My people that have sought Me. But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget My holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. There fore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before Mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, My servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto My chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call His servants by another name.” (Isa. 65:9-15).

“I will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at His word; your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to His enemies.” (Isa. 66:4,5). He waited and waited for them to hear His voice, but they never would.

“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” (2Pet. 3:9-13).

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