ARE YOU READY? THE DAY OF THE LORD
IS COMING VERY
SOON
09-25-16 This message may be
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The
height of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines (our building blocks)
THE ALARM IS
SOUNDING
(Joel 2:1)
Blow ye the trumpet
in Zion, and sound
an alarm [a warning to
prepare,
to be ready: the sixth feast, the Feast of Trumpets, “the sixth seal”
(Rev
6:12)] in my holy mountain [i.e., in all Christianity]:
let
all the inhabitants of the land [pagans
(non-believers)] tremble:
for
the day of [“the judgment of”
Amplif.] the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
1.
tremble = Heb: quiver
(with any
violent emotion) especially
with anger or fear: be afraid, quake.
2.
(Mark
13:8) For nation
[country] shall rise against nation [country],
and kingdom
[belief system, i.e., religious denomination,
political party, race,
etc.] against kingdom:
and there
shall be earthquakes
[Gk: commotions /// to rock, shake]
in
divers [many] places, and there
shall
be famines [Gk: scarcity /// be destitute (wanting),
lack] and troubles
[Gk: disturbances (of water)
roiling, or (of
a mob)]: these are
the beginnings of sorrows
[Gk: pangs or throes, especially of
childbirth]
[this is the last stage of our pregnancy, a stage of escalating pain
(great
tribulation) climaxing with the second coming of Jesus Christ – from
within us].
a.
(Rom
8:18) For
I reckon that
the sufferings [Gk:
hardships, pains: afflictions] [tribulations]
of this present time are not worthy to
be compared with the
glory [(God’s Glory)Jesus
Christ] which
shall be revealed [Gk:
to take
off the cover: disclosed] in
us.
[2 Thess 1:7,10,12]
3.
(Heb 12:26-29)
Whose
voice [God’s voice] then shook the
earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet
once more I shake not the earth only,
but also heaven. And this word,
Yet once more, signifieth the removing
of those things that are shaken, as
of things that are made, that those things which
cannot be shaken may remain.
Wherefore we [Saints] receiving a
kingdom which cannot be moved, let
us have grace, whereby we may serve
God acceptably
with reverence and godly
fear: For our God is a consuming [Gk: to consume utterly] fire.
a.
Commentary: four Bible proofs that we Saints
are not going anywhere: Prov 2:21,22; 10:30; Psa 37:29; Heb 12:27. The “rapture” (Dict: ecstatic joy or
delight; joyful ecstasy) occurs (is
presently occurring – it is our pregnancy) within
us, not without; it is the coming to birth, the
maturing revelation,
“the glory” (Rom 8:18) from within us.
4.
(Mat 13:30)
Let
both grow together [the wheat and
the
tares] until the harvest [crop
yield]: and in the time of
harvest I will say to the reapers [“angels”
Mat 13:41], Gather [Gk: collect] ye
together first the tares [Gr:
darnel or false grain] [i.e., poisonous weeds whose appearance is
as the wheat], and bind
them in
bundles [Gk: bundle ///
to tie,
shackle: bind] [i.e., bind them
together into groups] to burn them
[a phrase anticipating the return of
Jesus Christ to effect the third baptism of “fire” (Mat 3:11) which
ends the
Great tribulation and simultaneously commences the Millennium]: but
gather [Gk: assemble] the wheat into my barn [men are symbolized as trees throughout the
Bible (e.g., Psa 1); the barn is an ordered
(assembled) wooden board structure = Noah’s ark; the 48 priest-boards
of the
tabernacle of Moses; “a ship” (Mat 14:22); the barn of Jesus Christ
(all the
latter wooden board structures are types and shadows of the Body of
Jesus
Christ)].
5.
Commentary: Please note that within
this verse of (Joel 2:1) is portrayed a
distinction (a separation) between “my holy mountain”
depicting believers, and “the
inhabitants of the
land” who surround (as a
disobedient
flock) God’s holy mountain and represent the remainder of the world who
are
nonbelieving pagans, for we have not
been called upon to “tremble” at our Lord’s coming. (Quite
the reverse
actually). The “alarm” of God is sounding to two sorts of people: believers who are part of “my holy
mountain” and spiritually
hear the alarm loudly
resounding in
the Word of God (an oral tradition) and physically
see the supporting
physical
evidence thereby generating faith.
At the same time, that same “alarm” of God is sounding to “dull of hearing” (Mat
13:15) nonbelievers, the pagan
“inhabitants of
the land” who are
spiritually deaf and
therefore can only see
the
appalling circumstances of the increasingly rapid escalation of current
events as incomprehensible consequences, thereby
generating fear. The very next verse (Joel 2:2)
continues that dual
textual convention and the birthing progression in metaphorical detail. “He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches; To
him that overcometh will I give to eat of the
tree of life, which is in the midst of the
paradise of God.” (Rev 2:7)
Amen