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But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Matthew 24:37-39
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Deuteronomy 31:24-26 …’ And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.’
Exodus 40:20 …’ And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:’……Note from these two verses above, that the stone tablets (The Testimony) on which were written the Ten Commandments were placed INSIDE the ark, yet the book of the law by Moses, was placed in a pocked BESIDE the ark. This also shows a distinct separation between the two laws.
2 Chronicles 33:8 ….’ Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.’ ….That word ‘and’ separates the two laws…. The Ten Commandments and the Laws of Moses.
Take a look at the above verse from Deuteronomy 31, where it says ..’that it may be there for a witness against thee.’ This is talking about the ‘book’ of the law, not the Ten Commandments. Now take a look at the following verse from the New Testament:
Colossians 2:14 …' Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;' ..Notice a couple of things from this verse. The Handwriting of ordinances were the laws of Moses, which contained the ceremonial laws and it was these laws that were against us, NOT the Ten Commandments. It was the laws of Moses that were taken out of the way by Jesus Christ, being nailed to the Cross.
John Wesley knew the truth about the above verse (1825)
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Three last points from the last book in the Bible are:
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Revelation 12:17
“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Revelation 14:12
And from the very last page of the very last book :
“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” Revelation 22:14
Why do Christians forget the one command that God specifically said to remember?
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Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Revelation 11:14-19 Before the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet, there is the usual demand of attention. The saints and angels in heaven know the right of our God and Savior to rule over all the world. But the nations met God’s wrath with their own anger. It was a time in which he was beginning to reward his people’s faithful services, and sufferings; and their enemies fretted against God, and so increased their guilt, and hastened their destruction. By the opening the temple of God in heaven, may be meant, that there was a more free communication between heaven and earth; prayer and praises more freely and frequently going up, graces and blessings plentifully coming down. But it rather seems to refer to the church of God on earth. In the reign of antichrist, God’s law was laid aside, and made void by traditions and decrees; the Scriptures were locked up from the people, but now they are brought to the view of all. This, like the ark, is a token of the presence of God returned to his people, and his favour toward them in Jesus Christ, as the Propitiation for their sins. The great blessing of the Reformation was attended with very awful providences; as by terrible things in righteousness God answered the prayers presented in his holy temple now opened.
Angels Appear as Humans
Angels appear as humans
– then vanish –
after making startling announcement
that Jesus is coming “very, very soon”!!!
And other supernatural confirmations of Christ’s soon return!
by Jim Bramlett
Introduction
Numerous reputable people have told me, most unsolicited, of experiences with angels they either had personally or knew about. In most cases, the angels appeared to provide help in some distressful situation. However, several of the incidents, including the ones below, are particularly interesting for two reasons: (1) they contain a message (literally, the word “angel” means “messenger”) and, (2) the incidents were brought to my personal attention under unusual circumstances, making me think God sent them my way. In each case, the angel delivered basically the same startling announcement of the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why me? Why did these stories come to me? My only guess is because I have the inclination to pursue them, to write about them, and to tell you about them. In God’s great love, it may all be just for you.
Caution. It is important to stress that any mystical experience, even messages from angels, must be carefully judged against God’s Holy Word, the Bible. New Agers and other non-Christians claim angelic revelations while rejecting the cross of Christ which paid the price for our spiritual blessings and access to heavenly things. They are deceived and usually involved with demonic spirits. A pertinent fact about the experiences below is that they came to me after I had already concluded their general message from the Scriptures. Therefore, they were confirming messages. Nevertheless, judge them for yourselves. (Note: I was not able to confirm # 1.)
Encounter # 1 (Not confirmed)
This is one of the incidents reported to me that I was never able to actually confirm after hours of frustrating attempts and many long-distance telephone calls.. It reportedly happened in the Atlanta, Georgia area, on I-285 near “Spaghetti Junction.” I traced the incident from a friend in California California to a United Airlines pilot in Chicago, then to at least 15 others in Atlanta, including a medical doctor. Each person with whom I have talked has seemed highly credible, although I could never trace it to the source.
A lady passed a hitchhiker on the expressway, giving no thought to stopping. But she heard a voice say, “Pick him up.” She did not stop, but continued on. But she again heard the voice: “I told you to pick him up.” She now felt compelled to go back. She turned off the expressway, then got back on via an access road. She thought it would be unlikely that the person would still be there, but if he was, she would pick him up. To her surprise, the man was still there, so she stopped. He got into the car. They chatted for a few moments, then after a brief pause, the stranger said, “Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon?” On hearing that, the woman glanced toward the stranger — but he was not there. He had suddenly and unexplainably vanished!
She was so shaken that she had to pull off the expressway. After sitting there a few minutes trying to regain her composure, a policeman pulled up behind her, got out of his car, went up to her window and said, “Ma’am, is there a problem?”
She replied, “Officer, if I told you what just happened to me, you wouldn’t believe it.”
The policeman urged her to tell him anyhow. She described what had just happened. He responded, “Ma’am, normally I would think that you were one of the craziest people I have ever seen, but you are the seventh person today to give me this same report.”
Encounter # 2 (Confirmed)
While in the process of investigating the above incident, I learned of this next amazing one from another person in California, although it took place in Tennessee. It happened just past midnight on March 26, 1993, to Vincent Tan, an analytical chemist who works in Chattanooga. I spent weeks personally tracing this incident and have confirmed it with two reputable Christian leaders, his pastor and, finally, even Vincent himself. The following is a precisely recorded account: Vincent was born Tan Ban Soon in Singapore of Chinese, Buddhist parents. A few years ago as a young boy in Singapore, he was in the library reading a book on nuclear physics and discovered an offer for a Bible course stuck between some pages. He ordered the course and later became a Christian. He came to the U.S. to attend a Christian college, then gave himself the western name of Vincent. After four years, he graduated with a major in science. He has been very active in his church and in sharing his faith.
On the night of Thursday, March 25, 1993, Vincent was working late in his laboratory to complete tests due on Friday. During the evening he moved his car close to the front door of the building, since there had recently been criminal activity in the area. From time to time he looked out the window into the almost empty parking lot to check on his car. At 1:30 a.m. he finished working in his lab. As he was preparing to lock the door, he saw a person standing by the passenger side of his car. Vincent assumed the man was trying to steal his car. He noted that the stranger was of medium build with clean-cut, straight hair and had on a T-shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes.
Unsure what to do, he went back into the lab and prayed, “Lord, help me to do what I have to do. Do I have to use chi-sao?” Chi-sao (pronounced “chee’-sow-o”) is a form of martial art in which Vincent is proficient. To be extra safe, he looked around the lab and picked up an 18-inch metal rod, held it behind him and stuck his head out the door. He said, “Hi, can I help you?”
The stranger answered, “Hi, Vincent.”
Startled, Vincent asked, “Do I know you?”
The stranger replied, “Not really.”
“What is your name? Who are you?” Vincent probed.
The stranger said, “I have the name of your primary and secondary school.” He added, “I’m a friend. You don’t have to use chi-sao or the rod on me.” His voice had unusual authority, and it seemed he knew the question before it was asked.
Now Vincent was really startled. No one, not even his best friend in this country, was familiar with chi-sao, nor did anyone even know that he knew it. Also, there was no way the stranger could have seen the rod behind his back. Vincent later reflected that the stranger had used terminology (“primary and secondary school”) of Singapore and not the U.S., and that name of his school back in Singapore was St. Gabriel. The stranger was saying that his name was Gabriel!
“How do you know that?” Vincent asked.
“I know,” the stranger replied. “By the way, Mum is fine.” Vincent was startled again. Just the week before, his sister had called from Singapore saying that his mother had heart complications, and Vincent had been quite worried about her.
Gabriel continued, “You love the Lord very much, don’t you?”
“That’s right,” Vincent replied.
“He loves you very much, too,” Gabriel said. Then he added, “He is coming very, very soon.” He seemed to emphasize the “very soon.”
Vincent answered, “That’s great!”
Gabriel then asked, “Can I have a cup of water?”
Vincent said, “Sure,” and turned momentarily to get him the water. Then he decided to invite the stranger inside to drink from the water fountain. He turned back to invite him inside — but Gabriel was not there. He had suddenly and unexplainably vanished! Vincent had not turned his head for more than three seconds. There was no place for the stranger to have gone.
Puzzled, and not wanting to go back into the lab, Vincent laid the metal rod down by the front door and headed to his home outside of Chattanooga. When he came back to work later that morning, he wondered if he had dreamed the whole experience. As a scientist, he wanted to prove whether it had really happened. When he got to the building, he found the metal rod lying by the door just where he had left it. He knew he had not been dreaming. Upon entering the lab, the first thing he did was to lock himself in the rest room and kneel in prayer. “Show me what to do, Lord. I know what I remember. If I’m supposed to share it, I must believe it myself,” Vincent pleaded. He then sat down at his computer and recorded every word said and everything that had happened.
That night, March 26, 1993, in a dream Vincent relived the whole experience, seeing himself, and word for word hearing the whole conversation. He awoke at about 3:30 a.m. and wrote down every word in the dream and the description of the stranger. What he wrote from the dream confirmed every detail he had written earlier. Also, a week after the experience, he learned that his mother had received needed surgery and was recuperating nicely — and that the medical decision about her improved condition came a week earlier at about the very same hour as he was talking with Gabriel!
On July 29, 1993 I asked Vincent what effect this experience has had on him. He said he believes more strongly now that we should be ready every day for the Lord’s coming, and not worry about which day He will come. He said the experience has intensified his dedication, causing him to spend more devotional time than before, wanting to know more about God and be closer to Him. For some time, even before that experience, Vincent said he had been asking God, “Am I ready, right now?” Now, more meaningfully than ever, this writer is asking that same question.
Encounter # 3: Vincent’s second (confirmed)
I recently confirmed personally with Vincent that he has had another encounter, this time with an unnamed angel, on Thursday, December 23, 1993. Like the above, the following is an accurate record of exactly what happened and words exchanged.
Two Significant Prior Events. There are two events that have a bearing on this one. First, in July, 1993, Vincent had a dream. He saw himself standing at the door of a big room. He saw many candles, but not all of them were lit. He asked himself in the dream why the unlit candles. Then he heard a sad voice behind him saying, “If only all of them were lit.” He turned around but didn’t see anyone. A week later he had the exact same dream. Vincent shared the dreams in his Bible study and said he hoped someday the Lord would show him the meaning of the dreams.
Second, three months later in October, 1993 a stranded motorist waved Vincent down and asked him to jump start his car. Vincent stopped but did not have a cable. However, Vincent asked the man if he believed in God. The man asked what could God do. Vincent told him he believed that God could help in any situation such as this if we ask Him. So Vincent prayed out loud for God’s help. After he prayed Vincent noticed a coat hanger on the road.
Somehow, he figured out a way to break the coat hanger in two and use one part to connect the positive terminals and the other part to touch the two auto bodies together as ground. The man’s car started. He looked at Vincent and said, “You sure have a powerful God!” Vincent said, “I sure do. All we have to do is believe in Him.” The man said, “I’ll have to think about that,” and left. Two days later, Vincent got a jumper cable for his truck.
The December 23, 1993 Experience. Shortly after 11 p.m.,
December 23, 1993, Vincent was in his truck returning home from visiting a friend near Chattanooga. About four miles away from the friend’s home, he saw a truck alongside the road with its hood up and with an old man, estimated at about age 75, standing in front of it. Vincent was always wary of stopping for strangers, and believed one must really be led of the Lord in order to do so. He felt he should stop. He walked up to the man and asked if anything was wrong, to which the man replied that he a dead battery. Vincent asked if he could help in any way. The man asked that Vincent go get his jumper cable out of the truck. Vincent was surprised that he said this, as if knowing that Vincent had a jumper cable, especially since he had only recently obtained one. Vincent himself had forgotten that he had the cable, but when the old man told him about it he remembered. It was very dark and Vincent had to use his flashlight to see to connect his end of the cable. Then he turned around to discover that the man had already connected his end, even in the dark and with no flashlight. That seemed impossible, and startled Vincent.
Vincent said, “I need to do something first.” The man looked at him and said, “I did it already.” Vincent said, “Did what?” The man said, “I placed the bricks by your tires. That’s what you want, isn’t it?” The man had no way of knowing that Vincent had two bricks in his truck or that he wanted to block his tires with them because he didn’t trust his hand brake and because the gear would have to be in neutral to start the other truck. Vincent checked and discovered that the man had placed the bricks behind the exact same tires that Vincent wanted. At this point, Vincent was convinced that this was not a natural person. And after the experience in March, Vincent had decided that if the Lord ever gave him the privilege of another encounter with an angel, he had many questions he wanted to ask. But he had a sudden feeling come over him and some force caused his mouth to be kept shut. He was not able to say anything except to respond to whatever the old man wanted or said.
Vincent was now ready to start the truck, and the old man said, “Can we wait in your truck and have my truck charged up?”
Vincent agreed and they sat in his truck. The old man spoke first and said, “Can we pray? God can work miracles — even start a car with a coat hanger.” (The previous incident with the coat hanger job was a car and not a truck!) At this, Vincent said to himself that this stranger must be an angel!
The old man prayed: “Oh most holy and powerful God in heaven, we know you are coming very, very soon. Help us now in your own time and way. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.” Vincent said the man’s voice was so powerful and assuring that it sent chills through him. After the prayer the man asked Vincent, “Do you believe the Lord is coming soon?” Vincent said yes. Then the man said, “He is coming very, very soon, and we need to be ready now and always.” Then he said, “Can I use your Bible?” Vincent agreed, then without any word from Vincent the man reached into the glove compartment for the Bible, already knowing where it was located.
The man asked Vincent, “Do you read your Bible.?” Vincent replied that he tried to read it every day. The man said, “That’s very good. It’s unfortunate that many do not do that. Having Bible studies is like being in a big room with many candles that are lit.” Vincent knew he had God’s answer about his dreams six months earlier. The unlit candles meant many people were not spending time studying God’s Word! Now Vincent had absolutely no doubt that this was an angel.
It was very dark, but the man took Vincent’s King James Bible and, without searching, flipped immediately to the exact page, to Matthew, chapter 24. Then Vincent shined the flashlight on the page as the man read verse 36: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” He then jumped down to verse 42: “Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”
Then again, as if knowing exactly where the page was, without searching he flipped to John, chapter 14, and read verses 1-3: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
Then again, he amazingly flipped directly to Revelation 3, verse 11, and read: “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” With that, the man put the Bible back in the glove compartment. Vincent reflected that all three passages, and everything the man said, was about the Lord’s return.
After reading, the man put the Bible back and said, “The truck is ready.” He started the truck and Vincent said he would follow him for awhile to make sure everything was okay. The man said, “Thank you very much for your help. By the way, I left a small token for you. It will be enough to fill up your car tomorrow.” That was strange, because there was no way for the man to know that Vincent had a car in addition to his truck. Vincent followed him about a mile with the man’s tail lights clearly in view, then as they were going around a curve, he suddenly vanished from view. He and his truck just disappeared. Thinking his vision may have been obstructed by trees or something, Vincent even went back the next day during the daylight and retraced everything. There were no trees or anything obstructing his view. There was no human explanation. Also the next day, as he always does on Friday, Vincent took his car to the service station to fill up the tank with gasoline, so it would be full for the weekend. He had forgotten what the man had said about leaving a token “to fill up your car tomorrow.” Vincent put $2.32 worth of gas in his car, then tried to round it off to $2.35 or $2.40. But he could only get it up to $2.34 and it stopped. It just would not take more than exactly $2.34.
Vincent then left to visit a friend’s house, but remembered that he had left the friend’s Christmas gift in his truck, so he went back home. When home, Vincent decided to clean his truck a bit before leaving. While doing so, he found some money on the front seat, passenger’s side, underneath his glove. The money consisted of two one-dollar bills, a quarter, a nickel, and four pennies — exactly $2.34!”
Encounter # 4: Vincent’s third (confirmed)
Vincent had another amazing experience in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 13th 1998. He had been working late in his chemist job again to finish some urgent jobs. He left work at about 1 a.m. When he got outside, he suddenly realized that he had left his keys on his desk, but was not able to get back inside because of the automatic lock on the door. So now he could neither get back inside, nor drive his truck. He prayed that the Lord would unlock his truck, but nothing happened.
He walked across the street to a pay phone but discovered it had been vandalized. He remembered his cellular phone in his backpack and took it out. Vincent then realized he had left the battery at home to be recharged (an old model), and it could not work, of course, without a battery. Nevertheless, he prayed and asked the Lord to allow him to make one call. As soon as he prayed, he noticed the phone miraculously lighting up, and he called a friend to pick him up. The friend agreed to do so.
Vincent then sat down by a doorstep of the lab and waited. A little while later a police car drove up and stopped. The policeman asked, “What are you doing?”
“I’m waiting for a friend,” Vincent replied. He told the policeman his situation, about the prayer to open his truck, and the call to his friend.
The policeman replied, “Your friend isn’t coming.” He noticed Vincent’s Bible, and added, “That’s a good book to read.” Some conversation ensued in which Vincent disclosed his faith and his belief that the Lord is coming “very, very soon.”
The policeman replied, “I believe the Lord’s coming is very, very near too.”
At that very moment, a call came in over the policeman’s radio and he said he had to leave. Before he left, the policeman remarked to Vincent, “Why don’t you pray and ask the Lord to open the door to your lab?” Vincent said he watched him leave, while praying silently.
Vincent said, “I had barely finished praying when the lab door miraculously opened. I immediately stood up and turned around towards the door and noticed that someone had pushed the lock bar and opened it from the inside. I held on to the door and turned to look at the police car and noticed he was not to be seen, even though I had taken my eye off him for only a few seconds.”
Vincent got his keys and drove away in his truck. He drove by his friend’s home and noticed both their vehicles in their driveway. He assumed that they must have gone back to sleep, forgetting him.
Vincent said that he decided to go on home, “believing I may have actually spoken with an angel,” he said. The next day he checked with his friend whom he had called and who had promised to pick him up. The friend did not remember anything about the call!
Here we have: (1) a cell phone that miraculously works without a battery, (2) a mysteriously appearing and disappearing policeman who said “I believe the Lord’s coming is very, very near,” (3) the policeman knew in advance that the friend would not pick Vincent up, (4) after the policeman told him to pray, a door that miraculously opened from the inside even though no one was inside, (5) a friend promised to pick him up but neither he nor his wife remember the telephone call. The whole episode is no doubt supernatural.
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Incident # 2 above about “Gabriel” motivated me to review references in the Bible to the angel Gabriel. By name, Gabriel appeared to three people. The first was to the prophet Daniel in about 550 B.C. He gave Daniel a vision of the future, including the timing of Christ’s first coming. And similar to the message to Vincent, he said to Daniel, “You are greatly beloved.” Later, as recorded in Luke, he appeared to Zechariah, saying these awesome words, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God,” as he announced the birth of John the Baptist; then shortly thereafter he appeared to the virgin Mary to announce the birth of Christ. Gabriel’s main function in both Old and New Testaments seems to be in connection with announcing the coming of the Son of God to the world.
Angels who appear as humans are not without biblical precedent. For example, two angels came to Sodom to warn Lot before they destroyed the city (Genesis 19). They visited Lot’s home, ate with him, and even spent the night! They appeared as such “real people” that Sodom’s homosexuals tried to accost them and have sex with them, but the angels struck them blind. The next day, because of its blatant wickedness, God destroyed the city by fire.
Encounter # 5: Vincent’s fourth (confirmed):
God makes a telephone call — literally!
This may or may not have involved an angel. What is described below could have been either the sovereign hand of God Himself or an angel. However, we do know that God does uses angels to carry out His work so my guess is that an angel was involved. Also, the below incident does not involve prophecy but I am including it because the supernatural nature of it affirms the other prophetic experieces had by Vincent Tan described above.
On Saturday, April 6, 1996, Vincent was awakened at 4:30 a.m. with a burden to pray. He slipped to his knees beside his bed for a few moments, after which he returned to bed and to sleep. He arose later, and at 7 a.m. began his morning prayer time. At 7:30, as he was still praying, the telephone rang. So as not to be disturbed, he decided to let the answering machine take the call.
For some strange reason, the answering machine refused to take the call. The telephone kept ringing, as though demanding to be picked up! Vincent discovered that the answering machine was, indeed, on, but that it was not taking the call. He decided to go ahead and answer it. He also noted that, oddly, his Caller I.D. failed to show the number of the caller.
“Hello,” Vincent said. Surprisingly, the other party also said,
“Hello.” Again, Vincent said, “Hello.” Again, the lady on the other end said, “Hello.” Vincent asked, “Do you want to speak to me?”
The lady said, “No.”
Vincent then asked, “Then why did you call me?” The lady said, “I didn’t call you.” Vincent explained that his phone rang and he had answered it. The lady said the same thing happened to her-that her phone rang and she had answered it. Vincent told her his name, and she said her name was Doris, and that she was in Iowa. They both concluded that somehow their lines must have become crossed, causing this freak mishap.
(God had caused two distant telephones-one in Tennessee, and one in Iowa-to ring each other simultaneously, and for the loving and Divine purpose explained below.)
But in another surprise, Doris asked, “Are you the same Vincent who had an experience with an angel?” Vincent said yes. She explained that she and her mother had read about Vincent’s story about a year ago in an article I had written. Doris went on to say that six months ago, her mother was diagnosed with cancer and only given six months to live. She said that every day for the past six months her mother had prayed that she would be able to meet or speak with Vincent before she died. In her prayers about this, she had claimed the promises of Jeremiah 32:27, which says, “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?” and Jeremiah 33:3: “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” A few years ago, Vincent had also claimed these same promises.
Doris explained that her mother was near death, and how that very morning, at 3:30 a.m., Iowa time (the exact same as Vincent’s prayer at 4:30 a.m., Eastern Time) she was awake and felt led to seek the Lord and remind Him of her mother’s request. She asked if Vincent would speak with her mother, to which Vincent agreed.
(As an answer to this dying mother’s fervent, daily prayers, God had miraculously allowed her to speak with Vincent!)
Her mother was bed-ridden, so Doris decided to put Vincent on the speaker-phone, which took a few moments to set up. Finally, after waiting, Vincent heard the mother’s weak but audible voice. The mother thanked Vincent for talking with her, and then asked if he would please personally repeat for her his angel experiences. Vincent patiently took about the next 45 minutes describing to her the incidents in detail. At the end of his description, Vincent heard the mother say weakly, “Praise the Lord. Amen.”
This was followed by silence. All was strangely quiet. Vincent waited, thinking that Doris was taking him off the speaker. After a few moments, Doris broke the silence and came back on the regular telephone. “Praise the Lord,” she said. “My mother just died.”
Vincent now says, “I was so overwhelmed with mixed emotions. I did not know whether to be happy or sad.” He says he decided to say goodbye so that Doris could be with her mother. In the shock and emotion of the moment, Vincent didn’t think to get Doris’ telephone number for follow up. But he says, “I know that the Lord has His reasons for us not getting each other’s numbers. Why He would not let her number flash on my (Caller I.D.) screen is still a mystery. Yet I am amazed at His miraculous action in ringing both our phones at the same time. As I ponder over the event, I am grateful to the Lord for His loving kindness. It just encouraged my faith to trust Him even more, knowing that in the fullness of His time, He will answer our prayers.”
Vincent added the following, a message I believe not just for me, but for all who read this:
“I hope that this will be an encouragement to you as it has been to me. I know that we will see Doris’ mother in heaven when we all will be able to know the answers to our questions. The Lord is coming very, very soon. As we near the final hours, I know that His presence is even evermore with us now….May the Lord continue to bless you….Let us be ready now, for His coming is very, very near.”
Encounter # 6: Mother hears voice — same message (confirmed)
More recently, while perhaps not involving angel, on December 30, 1999, a mother in Maryland, Beth, told me an amazing and confirming testimony. She said, “I would like to share with you an occurrence that happened on December 10, 1999 in the a.m. My 8-year-old was at school and my husband was at work…. I had my 6-month-old son in his swing in front of the television watching Sesame Street. What caught my attention was that the television made the ‘shhhh’ sound. I turned to look and the screen was snowy as expected with that noise. It’s what happened next. The television completely cut off. My child was asleep. No sooner did I think, ‘Oh, the cable must have cut off,’ did I hear a voice. It said, ‘The lord is coming very, very soon.’ I was dumfounded, and then the TV came back to normal and Sesame Street continued.”
She went on to describe her reactions and adds that it was three days later on December 13th that she came across my article about Vincent’s angel encounters with the exact same message.
“Needless to say,” she concludes, “the messages that your witnesses received were exactly as my message was. I was very shaken…. I wonder why He chose me to relay this message.”
Encounter # 7: Angels discovered singing end-time song
in rural Chinese worship service! (confirmed)
This is a totally different kind of angel incident, but with a similar message and no less powerful. In May, 1995 I received this most electrifying report from a friend who has been a missionary to China for several years. To protect him and his contacts in China, I must not reveal his name. But for you to better understand his credibility, let me explain that I have known him for many years. He is a graduate of a prestigious theological seminary and is a former pastor. My friend is an intelligent and balanced servant of God. He is not given to sensationalism. The following is a summary of his recent report to me.
The whole province of Shandong, in eastern China (population: 57 million), is in the midst of a sweeping revival. For fear of arrest, believers meet secretly in house churches, often by candlelight. At a 1995 meeting in Shandong, everyone was singing “in the Spirit” together (1 Corinthians 14:15), not in their own language, but “as the Spirit gave them utterance,” all in harmony but all singing different words. Someone audiotaped the meeting. Later, when they played back the cassette, they were shocked! What they heard was not what had happened there at all — but the sound of angels singing in Mandarin — a song they had never heard before, and with a musical accompaniment that had not been there!!! When my friend first heard the tape, before anyone told him what it was, he exclaimed, “Those are angels!!” Actually, there was no other explanation. A Chinese Christian co-worker translated the tape. Below are the actual words sung by the angels! Note that the words express ideas with which these rural Chinese peasants were not familiar. (Original Chinese version follows).
“The End is Near: Rescue Souls”
The famine is becoming more and more critical.
There are more and more earthquakes.
The situation is becoming more and more sinister.
People are fighting against each other, nation against nation.
Disasters are more and more severe.
The whole environment is deteriorating.
Disasters are more and more severe.
People’s hearts are wicked, and they do not worship the true God.
Disasters are more and more severe.
Floods and droughts are more and more frequent.
There is more and more homosexuality and incurable diseases.
Disasters are more and more severe.
The climates are becoming more and more abnormal.
The earth is more and more restless.
The skies have been broken. The atmosphere is distorted.
Disasters are more and more severe.
Chorus:
The end is near. The revelation of love has been manifested.
Rise up, rise up, rescue souls.
The end is near.
Rise up, rise up, rescue souls.
The below was translated by two native Chinese Christians in Beijing who have personal knowledge of the church and the pastor where the incident happened:

Conclusion
While we may never know the day or hour of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, Scriptures do clearly indicate that seekers will at least know approximately. And there is overwhelming evidence that the return of the Lord will be soon. According to the four of the encounters and testimonies above, it will be “very, very soon.”
Readers are permitted and encouraged to copy and share this article freely with others. May the special presence and peace of the Holy Spirit rest upon each person who reads this article, and may God’s angels be with you and watch over you at all times according to Psalms 34:7 and 91:11.
On This Rock I Will Build My Church
Posted by Darrell in Christian, Misunderstood passages on August 15, 2010
The Catholic church as well as many people mistakenly believe the rock that Jesus spoke of was Peter, and that Peter was given the keys to the kingdom.
A surface reading of Matthew 16 will give that impression. To understand the correct meaning of what Jesus meant requires more than an understanding of history, it requires a revelation from the Holy Spirit.
If we go back to Matthew 16:19 and what Christ is saying just before that also helps. “Simon Peter said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God’, and Jesus said, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but my Father which is in heaven’.
And He says, ‘You are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church”. Now here He’s talking about the declaration of Peter (You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God) is the Rock upon which Jesus is going to build the church.
‘And I will give you the keys of the kingdom’—now He’s not talking to Peter, He’s talking to all the disciples who are there. And He says, ‘I’m giving you the keys to the kingdom; meaning, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. They had the freedom, in delivering the gospel to people, to make an eternal difference. What they did on earth would be seen in heaven. People who are…. Evil spirits and habits that were bound on earth would be bound for the world to come and it was saying that those who were loosed from those things would be loosed in the world to come.
What they did on earth would last for eternity is all that Jesus is saying. Of course the Catholic church believes that Peter was given the keys to the kingdom and there is a statue of Saint Peter in the Vatican. And in the hand of Saint Peter’s statue are these keys. The statue of St. Peter’s hand came up missing. The hand was attached (it had been repaired once before so it was attached with a metal rod), and they discovered one day that someone had stolen Peter’s hand and so you could say the Vatican lost the keys to the kingdom.
God does not deliver the power of salvation to any one mortal. Of course, the rock upon which the church is built is not the apostle, but rather Jesus Christ. Peter didn’t see himself as the foundation of the church; rather, he says in Acts 4:11 that Jesus Himself is the chief cornerstone.
That’s why the church, empowered by the living Christ, is able to break down the gates of hell. Filled with God’s Spirit, Christ’s church is to conduct aggressive spiritual warfare, rescuing lost souls from the enemy.
Moral Law Nailed To the Cross?
Posted by Darrell in Christian, Misunderstood passages on July 18, 2010
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. – Colossians 2:14-17
Many use this text to try and prove that the moral law was nailed to the cross. This article will explain and shed light on why the standard of righteousness, the commandments by which man will be judged, are still binding today. (Take a look at Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14 and James 2:10-12) (See Psalm 1:1,2 Psalm 19:7, 11) (Psalm 119)
One must understand that there are several sets of laws in the Old Testament:
Civil law – (An eye for an eye)
Health laws – (Sanitation & diet)
Moral law – (The Ten Commandments)
Ceremonial law – (feast days & sacrificial system)
A study on the words in these verses helps sort out which sets of laws Paul is speaking of. Note: It says “Handwriting of ordinances that was against us.“ It’s NOT the moral law that was “against us,” God’s Word says so in the following verses:
(Deuteronomy 6:24, 25) (Exodus 32:16) (Deuteronomy 9:9, 10) When Moses broke the 1st tablets, God told him to bring 2 new tablets and God rewrote them (Deuteronomy 9:9, 10). This set was placed inside of the ark (Deuteronomy 10:2)
It was the ceremonial law that was “against us.” God said to Moses, “Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. (Deuteronomy 31:26)
Note: This “Book of the law” was placed in the side of the ark. While the 10 Commandments were placed within the ark. (Deuteronomy 10:2-5)
The “book of the law that was against us” contained the law with sabbaths, new moons, & meat and drink offerings. On these specific days, specific meat, drink, and sacrificial offerings were to be made to the Lord. (1 Chronicles 23:31) (Hebrews 9:10 NLT)
The feast days were called sabbaths were to be observed as the Sabbath. (For religious purposes only) This had nothing to do with the regular weekly Sabbath/The 4th Commandment.
The (ceremonial) law pointed forward to Christ, was nailed to the cross and were to be observed in their season. (Leviticus 23:4)
Isaiah speaks of the sabbaths that were to be removed (Isaiah 1:13). He spoke about the eternal Sabbaths in Isaiah 66:22, 23)
Hosea 2:11, Also tells of the ceasing of these ceremonies. The well known Daniel 9:27 concurs, although many people take this passage out of context.
This sacrificial system was fulfilled when the “veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom“. The ceremonial laws were done away with and “no one is to judge you in “meat” offerings, or in “drink” offerings, or in respect of a ceremonial “holyday“, or of the “new moon“, or of the ceremonial “sabbath days,” which were a shadow of things to come by nailing them to the cross. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was the substance that cast the shadow. The shadow pointed to Jesus.
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The 144,000
In religious matters, sources of information available to us reveals that the majority has always been wrong.
The ones that were correct was always a very small group or the minority. Just like Noah and the other 7 persons that were on the ark.
Noah preached for 120 years that the flood was coming. The majority of the people didn’t believe him. There may have been millions of people alive at that time and they all died without knowing God. The 8 people on the ark are the only ones that made it.
The Bible tells us that the 144,000 are people who have the seal of the Living God and do 2 things. They follow God’s Commandments and follow Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17, Revelation 14:12.
The number is represented by 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel: Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin.
The Bible says in Revelation 14:4 “They are not defiled by women; for they are virgins.”
This does not mean that they are celibate (have no sexual relations), or that they are unmarried Jews.
(This would go against Paul’s teachings in 1 Tim 4: 1, 3) A woman in the book of Revelation is a symbol of a church (Rev 17.) So the meaning is that they are not defiled by an apostate church.
The 144,000 represent a final remnant of God’s Israel in Spirit (Spiritual Israel) and will still be alive when Jesus returns in the clouds. They won’t be defiled by deceptions and false prophecies. They will have been transformed into “Spiritual Israel” (just like Jacob was transformed and his name was changed), and have come out of spiritual Babylon. Revelation 18:4-8 They will not live like the rest of the World, God is first place in their lives.
And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:1, 2
The 144,000 will serve the same purpose as the 12 Apostles
Evidently, this great multitude who come out of great tribulation are converted under the preaching and influence of the 144,000. Shortly after Pentecost, the 12 apostles reached a great multitude, then there followed a great persecution (Acts 8:1). Shortly after the Holy Spirit is poured out on the 144,000, a great multitude will be converted and then comes the great tribulation.
We are to love our Jewish brothers and sisters, but people are wrong in keeping an eye on the middle eastern city of Israel. They are thinking just like the people that didn’t know or recognize that Jesus was talking in a spiritual sense and not a literal sense.
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit Romans 2:28,29
Remember Galatians 3:29 We are all Abraham’s seed. All true Christian’s are Spiritual Israelites. In Exodus 19:6 we see “And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”
The book of James says this: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad, greetings James 1:1














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