09-28-14

FEAR NOT, THE GOOD END COMETH

09-28-14  This message may be viewed live streaming video at www.tabernacleofmoses.org commencing today Sunday at 11:00am, and repeated 24/7 for one week; thereafter, the audio and notes without video are archived.

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THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS

(Mat 24:7-13)  For nation [country] shall rise against nation, and kingdom [religion] against kingdom: and there shall be famines [Gk: a scarcity of food: hunger], and pestilences [plagues, e.g., HIV/AIDS, Ebola], and earthquakes [Gk: commotions], in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows [Gk: pangs or throes, especially of childbirth: - pain, travail /// grief]. Then shall they deliver you up [Gk: surrender (you)] to be afflicted [Gk: pressured: anguished, burdened, persecuted, tribulation, troubled], and shall kill you [Gk: (to slay); to kill outright; fig. to destroy: - put to death]: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake [i.e., for our belief in Jesus Christ rather than belief in Allah]. And then shall many be offended [Gk: “scandalized”; entrapped, tripped up, stumble, enticed (to sin, to apostasy)], and shall betray [Gk: surrender] one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets [primarily the news media (Rev 13:11-17), plus political leaders and deceived religious leaders] shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity [Gk: lawlessness, wickedness: unrighteousness] shall abound [Gk: increase: multiply], the love [Gk: agape] [sacrificial love] of many [“If ye love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15] shall wax cold [Gk: to chill (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation)] [i.e., “stony ground” and “among thorns” persons]. But he that shall endure unto the end [those of us who are true to the Lord, and “alive and remain” unto the return of Jesus Christ and our “rapture”], the same shall be saved [Gk: sos (“safe”); delivered, protected: - healed, preserved, save (self), do well, be (made) whole].

1. Commentary: “and ye shall be hated of all nations” = the fulfillment of this prophecy will occur after the imminent successful Islamic conquest of the majority of the world by jihad and demographics (in 10-20 years max), for only Islam hates us, whereas all other non-Islamic nations, who are also infidels in Islamic eyes, are themselves hated and destined for death or obedience under “sharia law” (Islamic moral code within their religious law) by Islam (Arabic: submission).
2. “endure unto the end” = Gk: to stay under (behind), remain; fig. to undergo, bear trials, have fortitude, persevere: - abide, endure, (take) patiently, suffer, tarry behind. [And what is “the end”?]
1. (1 Th 4:15-17)  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain [i.e., endure] unto the [second] coming of the Lord shall not prevent [Gk: precede, to go before] them which are asleep [Gk: dead]. 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 [“the first resurrection” Rev 20:5,6]: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them [with the dead in Christ] in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air [this “rising” process is spiritually described in Ezek 37:1-14]: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
3. (Luk 21:16-20)  And ye shall be betrayed [to our conquerors] both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some [a parenthetical inserted word] of you shall they cause to be put to death [Gk: kill]. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish [eternally]. (Luk 21:19)  In your patience possess ye your souls. And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation [Gk: despoliation /// to lay waste: to make desolate, come to naught /// lonesome, waste: desert, solitary, wilderness] thereof [of the world] is nigh [Gk: near].
1. Commentary: “the desolation” = “the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet” (Mat 24:15; Mar 13:14), which will be a woman President of the United States, the highest office in the world, and thus analogous to the office of the High Priest (a woman in the High Priest’s office is a complete and utter desecration - defilement), standing in the Tabernacle of God as God.
4. patience = Gk: cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy: - enduring, patience, patient continuance (waiting) /// to stay under (behind), remain; fig. to undergo, bear trials, have fortitude, persevere: - abide, endure, (take) patiently, suffer, tarry behind.
5. (Luk 21:19  Amplified Bible)  “By your steadfastness and patient endurance you shall win the true life of your souls.”
6. (Luk 21:19  New American Standard Bible)  “By your endurance you will gain your lives.”

THE GREAT TRIBULATION

(Rev 12:1-17)  And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman [the Church] clothed with the sun, and the moon [the symbol of Islam] under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars [the twelve tribes of Israel: Rev 7:1-8]: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered [of the 100 fold Company, the 300 who “lapped” the water: Judg 7:6,7]. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth [i.e., fallen angels]: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days [1260 days = 42 months or 3 ½ years]. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath [for the 3 ½ years of Great Tribulation], because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle [Father God is the great eagle, the two wings are the Old Testament and the New Testament], that she might fly into the wilderness, into her [“prepared” v.6] place, where she is nourished [fed spiritual food] for a time, and times, and half a time [3 ½ years during the Great Tribulation of Satan’s wrath: v.12], from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water [peoples] as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman [who was in a safe place prepared by God and untouchable during the Great Tribulation], and went to make war with the remnant of her seed [those who remain on the earth, those who “bowed down upon their knees to drink water” Judg 7:6; the 30 fold and 60 fold companies], which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST

will simultaneously end the Great Tribulation, rapture the Saints, and begin the Millennium

Rev 19:1-21

THE MILLENNIUM

(Rev 20:4-6)  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded [past tense, these are the 30 fold and 60 fold “remnant of her seed” during the Great Tribulation] for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead [the unsaved] lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection [i.e., being “caught up” the rapture: 1 Thes 4:13-17].  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign [as “kings and priests” Rev 1:6; 5:10] with him a thousand years.

Amen