THE SPECIFIC TIME OF THE END

THE SPECIFIC TIME OF THE END

                The heavens have declared it… the prophets have confirmed it… we have entered the specific time of the end. No one is calling it the tribulation. Rather it is the time of the great shaking and judgment. It is a time for the exposing of sins… a time of division, as that which is righteous and faithful and holy is separated from that which is pretentious, rebellious and profane.

                The patience of God has run out for those who take His name in vain, who call themselves “Christian” even as they serve a god that they have created to serve their godless, perverse and careless lifestyles. Those who have preached that God doesn’t judge are now going to meet the God who judges.

                Huge ministries are about to fold and fall away. Leaders, who have failed to preach the Gospel of the kingdom, will be exposed. People who have claimed to live the life without repentance and turning from sin will now begin to turn against the righteous. Divisions will come and in many cases God’s remnant people will be forced out of these profligate congregations. The Spirit of God is going to come upon them as they do and say what their pastors have failed to do and say.

                The harvest time that everyone presumes will be so grand, is rather a time of separating wheat from chaff and a cutting away of the grain from the stubble. People who have spoken in such glowing terms of the great harvest and the move of God will be shocked. Yes, there will be a great harvest, but it will not be recognized as such except by those who have a true prophetic view of the end times.

                Many will fall away simply because they think that the Body of Christ has breathed its last. Many false doctrines will be exposed. Ministries that have been built upon money and lies, rather than upon the Spirit of God and His Word, will suddenly find their money gone and their lies exposed. Their kingdoms will teeter and fall. Those institutions that have used the grace of God for license to sin will be faced with a horrible truth. Love and justice are two sides of the same coin. The God who loves us must also judge us… for the farmer that loves his crop must also separate the heads of grain from the stalks and wheat from the tares. This is the nature of the harvest.

                We need to understand that the great awakening of the mid 1800s and early 19 hundreds was an important move of God. Millions of people around the world came to Christ in those days. Important truths were uncovered, great revivals broke out in America and Europe and in various parts of the world. There were even signs in the sun, moon and stars in those days and great conflagrations among nations that looked a great deal like the end of days. But the signs in those days were only partial and there was much yet to be fulfilled of which those Advent people were unaware.

                There were yet three world wars to take place along with the battle of God and Magog… and Israel had to come back into her land in order for many prophecies to be fulfilled. Many truths developed in those days had yet to be refined and separated from error and false understandings. We had not yet come to the end of the times of the Gentiles and the technologies that would make the end time prophecies possible had yet to be invented.

                We need to understand that for the past 2000 years we have been in the age of Pentecost. So if we will observe carefully we will understand that the Jewish Feast of Pentecost was celebrated with leavened bread. Leaven represents sin… and so we must now understand Yeshua’s parable of the Sower found in Matthew 13. Beginning in verse 18, Yeshua begins to explain the meaning of His parable of the sower saying: “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road. And the one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word immediately he falls away. And the one on whom seed was sown among thorns, this is the man who hears the word and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and it becomes unfruitful. And the one on whom seed was sown on the good ground, this is the man (Or woman) who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold and some sixty and some thirty.” Mt. 13:18-23

                Likewise Yeshua follows this parable up with another parable that is closely related. He talks about a field in which the enemy has come in at night and has sown tares among the wheat. Some have wanted to pull the tares out prematurely, judging one another. But Yeshua said, “Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.” Mt. 13:30

                Friends, we have now entered that specific time of which the parable speaks. We have come to the time of the separation of wheat and tares. We must understand that the great shaking is a part of the harvest. It is a time of separating wheat from tares and wheat from its chaff. Not only will there come a great falling away of the tares, but there will be the heat of the Refiner’s fire to refine and purify the wheat… and we will either accept that work of God or reject it, but He will not take into His barns wheat that is still connected to its chaff and its stalks, but only that wheat that has been shaken loose from the cares and the nature of this world.

                Beware that we are not just preaching age old sermons here. Our message is now very specific for the time of the harvest has come. The message of the three angels of Revelation 14 that was in some ways prematurely preached 150 years ago has now come.

                 The prophet Neville Johnson recently had a vision in which there were two vessels, one of silver and one of gold. His attention was drawn to the silver vessel into which water was dripping. He watched as one final drop of water dropped into the silver vessel and it began to overflow. Then the silver vessel disappeared and water began dripping into the golden vessel. The angel explained to Neville that the era of the silver vessel which represents the Holy Place which also represents the Pentecostal age had come to a close and now the veil was opening into Most Holy place where those who are ready will be refined and purified like pure Gold in the presence of the Lord… and then they will be given the power to do the works that Christ did and even greater works and to bring in the harvest.

                This prophet knows very little if anything of the Advent movement for he was born and raised Pentecostal. His father and his grandfather were both preachers filled with the Holy Spirit and with fire, but Neville is now seeing in His lifetime what his forefathers preached about but never saw.

                As a Pentecostal preacher and prophet, Neville understands that the age of Pentecost has now come to an end. He also understands that this changing of the guard now places us in the age of Tabernacles. The fire will be heated up seven times to purify those who are ready and to separate the wheat from the tares.

                This time represents then a change of our message from grace to judgment. The message of grace has been badly abused in recent years so that the church has been flooded with tares. Yet it is not our place to judge. Judgment belongs to the Lord of the harvest. We just need to preach the message and the heat of the message will do the work of separation. Much of today’s preaching has created a flock that can no longer endure sound doctrine. They have been taught that there is no judgment, that God is love, but they have left out the part where a loving God is also a just God. He cannot bring into His barns un-threshed wheat and tares. His kingdom is holy and righteous and it can only be populated with a holy and righteous people.  

                Now for those of you that feel you have just been hanging onto the kingdom with your fingers and toes, I would like to bring an encouraging word. Everyone that sincerely desires to go on with God, He will empower to do so. What He has started in you He will finish. It is not our weakness that He is concerned with; it is our willingness.

                `”And I will grant wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood BEFORE the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come. AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERY ONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.” Joel 2:31-32. Acts 2:19-21.

                Does any of this sound familiar? Four blood moons… a total eclipse of the sun…a great wonder in the heavens as spoken of in Revelation 12. God has been shouting from the sky.” The time has come. This is it!”

                The good news is that everyone that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Don’t look at yourself. Don’t look at your weakness. Put your full faith in Yeshua. Look to Him, the Author and Finisher of your faith. Make sure that you are truly born again. No one can see His kingdom unless he is born again. This entails repenting and turning away from your sins and asking Yeshua to forgive and cleanse you and to come into your heart… To be your new life. (Gal. 2:20, 21) Ask Him to be your Savior and your Lord. Now place your full faith in Him and walk in obedience to His Word. His blood covers your sins and His robe of righteousness is around you. God now sees you as perfect and righteous in Him.

                But this is not the casual thing that the church has made it to be. You have now made Jesus your Lord and His Holy Spirit your new source of life. He will guide you into all truth and that truth is found in His Word as it is quickened in your spirit. “For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.” Rom. 8:14.

                It is time to let go of the world. It is time to place your whole faith in Yeshua and to walk in obedience to His Word.

                The message of salvation has been a partial one in most places. What we have not been taught recently is that our spirit is instantly saved when we receive Yeshua as our Savior and Lord. But the saving of our soul is a process called sanctification. If you will remember the tabernacle of Moses; we came to Christ in the outer court. We accepted the blood of the Lamb as payment for our sins. We offered ourselves to Him as a living sacrifice upon the altar of burnt offering, then we were cleansed and our sins washed away in the laver. (Baptism)

                Much of Christianity has left us there in the outer court, but the truth is we must enter within the veil into the Holy Place. This represents our soul, or mind. We have now been delivered out of Egypt, but now Egypt must be taken out of us. This is done by the Word as revealed by the Holy Spirit and prayer. This is the process of saving our soul. It also corresponds to the age of Pentecost where wheat and tares grew together.

                But now we are entering into the final era of judgment and refining. The last of the tares must be removed from our own lives. The chaff must now be burned out by the refining fires of Tabernacles. We are the temples of God and as we enter into His presence the chaff will be burned away.

                 In our walk through the Holy Place a majority of the chaff should have been burned away already. We should have been walking in obedience to God and His Word and learning to walk in His Spirit. To the extent that we have done this already, the refining process will not be as tough as it will be for those that have not surrendered to the Lord’s work in their lives. The more refining that needs to take place the tougher it will be. Many will fall away for they will not understand this purifying work of God. But hang in there. Put your faith in Him. He will get you through. Don’t abandon ship now.

                I could go on begging you to hold fast. I love you. God loves you. He is not willing that any should perish. There is absolutely no need for you to be lost. Only those who choose to be wicked will be lost. But the weakest soul that clings to Jesus will be saved. You have come into His covenant of salvation signed in His own blood. Your name has been written in His book of life. The refining process may be tough, but you will make it through for it is said that we overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. (Rev. 19:10) So don’t lose faith in the blood of the Lamb and don’t fall from your testimony of Jesus which is the Spirit of prophecy.

                Lift up your head for your redemption draws near. The signs in the heavens tell us that we are now in the age of Revelation 12. The dragon has been kicked out of heaven for the very last time and he has come to earth knowing that he has a very short time left. (Rev 12:12) During this time he will try to build his global empire and to weed out everyone who has the light of Christ in their hearts. We must determine right now to love not our lives even to death. (Rev. 12:11) He will also pursue God’s remnant people who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

                Look, I know that a vast majority of the church has been looking for a pre-tribulation rapture and I won’t argue the point. I would love for Jesus to come now myself. But we must also be prepared to stand if there isn’t a rapture. We do know that we will be here to see the great falling away or apostasy and the revealing of the antichrist, (2 Thess. 2:1-4) that much is clear. And why would God warn us not to take the Mark of the Beast if we aren’t even going to be here?

                There is a refining and separating to take place… a great shaking where everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that which remains cannot be shaken and it will be eternal. I (Hebrews 12:26-29) Build your life right now on those eternal things and not on the matrix principles that I wrote about yesterday. This temporary world is soon to pass away. Why cling to it? Take you stand with Jesus Christ and His Word… for Jesus Himself has said: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall never pass away.” Mt. 24:35

                We do know that we will not have to endure the wrath of God. Romans 5:9 says: “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.”

                1Thess. 1:10 says: “And to wait for His son from heaven whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”

                1 Thess. 5:9 says: “For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ…”

                Revelation 14 shows us two harvests. One group is caught up to heaven while the other group is cast into the winepress of God’s wrath. The group that is caught up we see immediately afterwards in Revelation 15 standing on the sea of glass and singing the song of Moses and the Lamb.

                So again I say, hang in there. Put your full faith in Yeshua, for He is mighty to save. However the next few years work out, Jesus will save to the uttermost those who come to Him in faith.

                “Do not be afraid little flock, for you Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves purses which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near, nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Be dressed in readiness and keep your lamps alight. And be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks. You too be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.” Luke 12:32-36, 40.

                In essence this is saying that we must lay aside everything that comes between us and the Lord. Our biggest battle in these last days is not the outward battle but the inward battle for our souls. It is there that we lay everything down that stands between our soul and His Spirit… anything that would prevent us from entering within the veil and into the presence of God.

                We are now at that specific time.