TIMES OF THE GENTILES

TIMES OF THE GENTILES

                “For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of the mystery lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in and thus all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, ‘The deliverer will come from Zion and He will remove ungodliness from Jacob and this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”          Rom. 11:25-27.

                I wish I could shout this text out as a warning to all who read my articles. If you believe the Bible and if you take what God says literally, then you must take a good hard look at this particular text. It represents a changing of the guard so to speak. It tells us that there will be a time when the Gentiles will have had their last chance and God will turn back to Israel.

                In all of our criticism of Israel, we fail to base our beliefs on God’s Word. As God’s Remnant people we dare not look to the world for our opinions. We must look at God’s plans.

                We keep asking ourselves why stubborn Jews don’t just accept Yeshua as their Messiah and be done with it, but we ask such a question in ignorance. Right here in Romans 11 Paul tells us of a mystery: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. Remember that when God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, he could not let Israel go even if he wanted to. He could not let them go until the God of heaven had made an open display against all of the gods that the Egyptians served. In their deliverance from Egypt the God of heaven devastated the gods that had held them in bondage, making a show of them openly. He put Satan on notice that He was about to make His great  move of salvation and that move would include the giving of the Law and the tabernacle services and the sacrificial system that would all put Satan’s power on hold.

                This great move of God would also create a holy nation, a kingdom of priests through whom the Messiah would be born and with that the ultimate triumph of Christ over Satan. God has a plan and if we gain our attitudes and beliefs by listening to the daily news we will miss the Mystery and we will fail to be ready for what is about to happen in God’s timing. THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES IS COMING TO AN END.

                This is why it is so important to correctly understand the 70 weeks of Daniel 9. God gave Israel a mandate that they couldn’t carry out without their Messiah. So when they rejected Yeshua, the clock stopped and when it starts again in the final 7 years of earth’s history, they will first be offered, not the true Messiah, but an imposter we know as the antichrist. They will think that he is the Messiah until he commits the abomination of desolation in their temple and then they will flee from Jerusalem and Judea and they will begin to call on the Lord for the real Messiah.

                This is God’s plan for their deliverance. He will in fact deliver them from earth’s final Pharaoh. (The antichrist) but this will be done after the times of the Gentiles has come to an end. And this is why some believe that the rapture will take place at that time and that the time of Jacob’s Trouble will be for Jacob and not for the Gentiles.

                I honestly don’t know at what point Jesus will take His Gentile people home. I just know what Paul has said, that the day of the Lord will not come until there is a great falling away first and the man of sin (The Antichrist) is revealed. In other words we will be here to see the antichrist.

                But the way I see it, the great falling away is well under way. Europe once used to be the Christian capital of the world and the center of missionary dispatches to all corners of the earth. But now Europe has openly rebelled. They are embracing the kingdom of the antichrist, even picturing themselves as the woman that rides the bull “Europa.” And their headquarters in Belgium is built to look like the unfinished tower of Babel.

                Then America became the center of Christianity and sent missionaries all over the world, but today America is in rebellion as well and large parts of the church that remain are defecting from the faith. I read yesterday that one of America’s mega churches is advocating unhooking from the Old Testament saying that it no longer has any authority or relevance to the church. This is why I and others have been warning the church to stay on her foundations. That which God gave Israel in types and shadows works like self-correcting software. When we deny our foundations, we will also drift into apostasy.

                In January of this year, during a time of prayer, the Lord Jesus visited the prophet Sadhu Selvarage and handed him a note that said: “1 Peter 4:7.” The Lord said to Sadhu: “This is what you must tell my people.”

                “The end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.”

                If we read on in that same chapter it says in verse 17: “For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God. And if it begins with us first what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the Gospel of God? And if it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner? Therefore, let those also who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right.” 1 Peter 4:17-19.

                Sadhu does not believe in a pre-trib rapture because the Lord told him otherwise in a vision several years back, but what he did say in his recent article is that millions of faithful Christians are going to be laid to rest before the tribulation begins and some of you reading this article will recognize that statement from another prophet.

                Sadhu said the separation of the wheat and the tares is in progress and it will begin in earnest as sheep churches are separated from goat churches and sheep nations from goat nations. He also warned that those nations and those churches that take their stand against Israel, God will take out.

                This is why I keep warning Christians not to look at politics or the world’s news to form your opinions about Israel. Look only at God’s plans. We need neither to condone nor to condemn Israel for its present actions. Stick to God’s Word. He has a plan for the rescue of faithful Israel, just as He has a plan for the deliverance of His faithful church. Put your faith in Him.

                Sadhu warns that the world is gearing up for the war in which the nations will come against Israel. In this war Israel will sustain many casualties, but just when things appear hopeless, God will step in and deliver them even as Ezekiel tells us concerning the Magog war.

                Friends, we are looking right down the gun barrel of all of these events taking place. Some of us have been studying these things all of our lives and now it is almost unbelievable that they are about to actually take place. We are entering the final countdown. We are pressing hard against the tribulation aka the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble.” It’s time for us to realize that Jacob is Israel. It is the time of Israel’s trouble and we will be here to see some of it or maybe all of it, but God’s focus will have turned back upon the Jews… not only in Israel but all over the world… and millions upon millions will come to the Lord.

                Also among the Muslims the Lord is appearing and millions, having witnessed the true nature of their religion are turning to the Lord as well. And when God Himself defeats the massive armies arrayed against Israel, this will bring in a massive harvest of people who will see that their gods are no match for the God of Israel.

                We need to prepare for a huge harvest. It is coming, but as I have been saying for several years now, it will not come during times of peace and safety, but amidst calamity and ruin, for I believe that when Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost, he, whether he knew it or not, was speaking more about our day than he was about his day. He was speaking about the final outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the harvest in the last days for he says:

                “And it shall be in the last days”, God says, “That I will pour forth of My Spirit upon all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams; even upon My bond slaves, both men and women I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit and they shall prophesy. 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 everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Acts 2:17-21.

                Like I said, Peter was talking more about our day than he was about the first Pentecost. And as the times of the Gentiles draws to a close, Sadhu says that we can soon expect to see the ministries of the Two Witnesses. One of the reasons the church must be here for that is that the two witnesses are going to restore all things. (As stated by Jesus)They are going to correct our doctrine even as they present Yeshua to the Jews. And the rebellious churches and the rebellious nations will hate them and eventually put them to death. But by then they will have completed their harvest.

                Don’t try to force an exact timing on the coming of the Lord. Just be satisfied that He is going to save every soul that can possibly be saved. It will be a horrific time such as the world has never seen. Even nature itself will rebel at the sins of mankind as Satan’s kingdom grinds to an end and the kingdom of our Lord is born. We can be a part of it. Yeshua, by His Holy Spirit has given us everything we need as it pertains to life and godliness. We can live by His power. We need not live by our own. But we must develop a hunger for truth and for righteousness. We are about to witness all of those events prophesied in the scriptures. Lift up your heads for your redemption draws near.