Greetings church.
I'm excited to share with you a prophetic message.
The Lord gave me during my time with Him in the Word.
I was preparing along the lines of the Hazon Vision when
the Lord, He intervened right there and gave me
a verse and spoke to me from His Word, a verse that
I've read many times but
I never saw the prophetic implications of it.
So I'm really excited to share that with you. But before that,
Let's look at 1 Thessalonians 1 at the Christian posture.
We are to “wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised”
from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”
You see, our Christian position today, our posture today is
not to look forward to finally ending up in the grave.
Amen. We end up dying. That's not the Christian position.
If you read carefully in the New Testament, it is always
pointing to the coming of the Lord.
Even Paul was looking forward to the coming of the Lord,
because “no one knows the day nor the hour.”
But of all the generations that ever lived since Jesus
rose from the dead, it is our generation that saw Israel
come back as a nation.
In 1948, we saw the fulfillment of 2 great World Wars that
Jesus talked about.
“Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom.”
And He was talking about a war, a world war on that scale.
A global war.
We saw that in this past generation. Jesus says:
“Jerusalem will be under the foot of Gentiles,”
“until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
So we know that Jerusalem fell into the hands of the Gentiles
the moment Israel rebelled against God and
God sent them into captivity. Amen.
God delivered them into the hands of the Babylonians.
And since then, the prophetic time clock started ticking.
And from then on, all the way, even in the time of Jesus,
they were under the Romans.
So Jerusalem has been under the foot of Gentiles all these years.
But in 1967, in the Six Day War, Jerusalem came back to the Jews.
And this is a fulfillment of Scripture. Amen.
The Bible says that: “Jerusalem will be under the foot of non-Jews,”
“until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
So give and take, we are in the season where
the times of the Gentiles are about to be fulfilled.
It is not fully fulfilled yet.
It will be fulfilled but an indication there, from what Jesus said,
the moment Jerusalem comes back to the hands of the Jews.
And we also see in the Scriptures that,
the Bible tells us that before He (Jesus) comes again,
“there will be great earthquakes.” Alright.
Not just a normal small scale earthquake, but great earthquakes.
We've never seen great earthquakes on the scale
that we have seen in our generation.
It is almost many a times, back to back.
In a given year, we never had so many great earthquakes
as we have seen, in recent years.
And all these are the beginning of sorrows
or the birth pangs pointing to the coming of the Lord.
So we know that the rapture is coming.
And the earth is travailing.
The Lord is just telling us. God is not behind the World Wars.
God is not behind the earthquakes, but God is the One telling us
that the earth is groaning because of man's sin and is
groaning for the manifestation of the sons of God.
And these are the signs, these are the symptoms,
so to speak that you need to look out for
that will point you to the nearness of the coming of the Lord.
So “no one knows the day nor the hour.”
If you read on the Internet or on YouTube, like someone
just asked me the other day about a YouTube post that
they saw telling people about the day and the time when
the Lord will return.
You can just forget about it. Alright?
Because “no one knows the day nor the hour.” Amen.
But we can see the signs are all telling us that we
are actually that final generation.
God works in parallels.
In the Old Testament and the New. Amen.
For example, in the first coming of Jesus,
when He came here as a baby, remember that the Lord
actually revealed His coming to shepherds.
So I believe there's something that God is telling us that
so much the more we see the Day approaching,
usually the shepherds of the churches are the ones that God
will impart a revelation or a sensing of the Day approaching
so that they'll know what to do. Okay.
And I believe that shepherds that are watching this,
it's incumbent on us to encourage our people.
as well as to challenge them, to look forward to the
coming of the Lord. Amen. Praise the Lord.
To wait for his Son from heaven, not look to the grave,
but to wait for His Son from heaven who will transform our bodies
like to His glorious body. Hallelujah. Amen.
And I believe it is going to be soon.
We're going to see the Lord, and this is our Christian position.
To wait for His Son from heaven.
Amen.
So when Jesus comes again, this is going to happen.
The Bible says: “Behold, I show you a mystery.”
“We shall not all sleep.”
By the way, when the Bible says: “I tell you a mystery.”
A mystery here is not something hidden like a mystery novel and
you only know the real plot of the whole thing until
the end of the novel.
But a mystery in the New Testament sense is always something
that was once hidden, but it is now revealed.
Once hidden, now revealed.
So actually when you see the word “mystery” in
the New Testament, it is something that is now revealed.
It is our privilege to know that this mystery is now revealed.
And Paul says: “Behold, I tell you a mystery.”
“We shall not all sleep, but we shall ALL be changed.”
So the rapture is for all.
I say the rapture is for ALL.
The word “all” is used emphatically here.
“We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.”
So if you're truly born again, you will be raptured
regardless of your spiritual growth. Amen.
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.”
“For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised”
“incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
“We shall be changed.”
So the dead will be raised first and they'll be raised in a body
that is incorruptible.
“And we also shall be changed.” How?
“This corruptible” referring to our bodies
“must put on incorruption.” Just like Jesus' body
when He rose from the dead.
He did not rise from the dead with just spirit and soul.
He rose with a body, a new body,
a body that is tangible.
And yet, it can transcend matter.
It can transcend space and time. He could appear and disappear.
That's the kind of body that you and I are going to have.
The Bible says that: “God will change our vile bodies”
“unto His glorious body.” Amen. Praise the Lord.
And He says also that:
“This mortal, which is our body, must put on immortality.”
“Now, when this happens, when this corruptible body”
“has put on incorruption and this mortal body has put on immortality,”
Don’t you just love that word “immortality”?
“then shall be brought to pass.”
“the saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.'”
Now keep this in mind.
Because that prophetic verse that I talked to you about
has got to do with this verse.
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
This is taken from Isaiah 25. Right from the prophecy of Isaiah.
And it goes on to say: “Oh Death, where is your sting?”
“Oh Hades, where is your victory?” The sting of death is sin.
What causes death? Death is total, right?
You can't climb the highest mountain to escape death,
you cannot swim the deepest ocean to escape it.
Death is total and yet, not for the believer.
There is a generation that will not see death.
The Enoch generation.
The Bible says that: "Enoch walked with God; and he was not; for God translated him."
So the rapture is found all the way throughout the Old Testament.
Even Elijah was raptured bodily. Amen.
So the rapture is not a new concept.
It's there in the Old Testament, but the Bible tells us that
when we have this fulfillment, when this takes effect in us,
when Jesus comes again, He would “transform our vile bodies”
“like unto His glorious body,” it says in Philippians.
And then, hallelujah, we will be transformed like His body.
We can transcend matter, space, and time.
We can appear and disappear even physically. Amen.
We'll travel faster than the speed of light. Amen.
And the entire universe is our playground.
Praise the Lord.
And we can never fall sick ever again.
We will never die.
For how long? Forever.
Praise the Lord.
We will be forever young, forever healthy, forever strong.
What a future to look forward to! Amen.
Jesus says it like this.
When all these things happen, all the signs that He talked about,
“lift up your heads.”
Don't look down, don't look to the grave.
That's not the destiny of the believer.
“Lift up your heads, your redemption draws near.”
What redemption? They're already saved.
The ones that He's talking to are saved by His blood. Amen.
We are saved by His blood already. Amen.
So that's one aspect of redemption.
But the thing that we're waiting for right now is our bodily redemption.
Amen.
This body, unfortunately it decays, it grows old, it falls sick,
it is subject to sickness and all that.
Yes, we can trust God for healing.
But the idea of healing is actually not immortality.
Healing is for a temporal body, for a mortal body.
But what we are looking forward when Jesus comes again
is immortality, a body that is immortal.
Hallelujah. Like Jesus' body.
Amen.
Aren't you looking forward to that? Praise the Lord.
So Jesus says: “Lift up your heads.”
“When you see the signs happening, your”
“bodily redemption draws near.”
We must teach Bible prophecy. Amen.
A great part of the Bible is prophecy. Okay?
And the benefit of prophecy is this.
When we have this hope, when the people of God
have this hope in them, the Bible says:
“This blessed hope, purifies themselves.” Amen.
Whoever has this hope purifies himself.
Hallelujah. Amen.
And gives you a positive expectation of good in your future.
Amen.
You live your life like life is not just temporal.
It is for the life to come. Amen.
Where we live, we will reign forever with Him.
Praise the name of Jesus. It changes your perspective.
Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.