Should this book be concluded by saying simply: “Take it, or leave it”? I would prefer to say: “Take it, re-read it, ponder it, bring it before the Lord and be blessed and do not leave it!” This is, after all, the same choice that God presents to His people saying:
“See, I (Your God) have set before you this day LIFE AND GOOD, and DEATH AND EVIL;…I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE and DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING; THEREFORE (YOU) CHOOSE LIFE, that both you and your seed may live.” (Deut. 30:15+19)
Before I say anything else, I must declare a simple fact concerning our choice. God would never ask us to choose from something, which we would not know, see, perceive, comprehend and not be able to make an intelligent decision. Therefore, every one of us knows the difference between life and death, good and evil and thus we will have no excuses before God for making our choice. I do not believe that I should beg you to believe and accept the truths in the Word of God quoted and discussed in this book. Why? Because your heart knows and responds spontaneously while you are reading. Your conscience, if it lives, also knows and speaks to you while you are reading.
So by now, you have either believed and received, or disbelieved and rejected. No one remained neutral. And I have no power over this inner voice and decision of your soul. God Himself will not overrule your decision though He has the power to influence you and show you the real consequences of your decision. Read the whole fifth Book of Moses (Deuteronomy), chapter 30, and get the sense of this Word of God for yourselves.
It is also written:
“HE THAT BELIEVES on the Son of God has the WITNESS IN HIMSELF; he that believes not God (His Whole Word) has made Him a liar; because he believes not the record that God gave of His Son (the NEW MAN).” (1Jn. 5:10)
So, if you have believed in your heart the truths in the Word of God presented in this book, you have the WITNESS in yourself and nobody has to persuade you. And if you have not believed, you likewise have the witness in yourself that you disbelieved and nobody will persuade you otherwise.
For those believers who say that they cannot do what the Word says, I say, you are absolutely right but also absolutely wrong! In yourselves, you cannot possibly do any of it, there you are right. But I would like to greatly encourage you in presenting to you another Word of God, which, I am sure, has been essential in the life of every Overcomer and in my own life also, which says:
“I can do ALL things through Christ which strengthens me.” (Phil. 4:13// Mt. 14:28,29) For multitudes of Christians, this Word is, unfortunately, nothing but a theory on paper!
I will now give you the Word of God showing the picture of the future and what will happen to born-again believers, if they will physically live to see these coming events. There are only two choices for all of us:
a) we decide to keep satisfying ourselves and to keep in us the things that God hates and will destroy, or
b) we decide in our heart to satisfy God and overcome the things in us that God hates and will destroy.
With the first choice, we do not have to do or change anything; just keep going and doing what we have been doing thus far. We are free to disbelieve and disregard what the Lord is giving to all of us in His Word and in His Judgment (also on the pages of this book).
With the second choice, the moment you decide in your HEART to start walking this narrow way designed and set before you by God (Heb. 12:1// Mt. 7:14), which is the only road leading to the Kingdom and Life, the Lord will keep strengthening you as you will need in order to keep walking. I TESTIFY OF THIS TRUTH from my personal experiences with the Lord. I needed His power and strengthening every step of the way, although I never knew or understood how the Lord was really doing it. I have been only experiencing it. And I will need His strengthening all the way to the end. So, I am not walking alone, but with the Guide, Who knows every step of this way for He travelled it and had overcome Himself. This is the basis of the Lord’s promise where He says to us, who are likewise called to overcome:
“To HIM THAT OVERCOMES will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, EVEN AS I ALSO OVERCAME, and am sat down with My Father in His throne.” (Rev. 3:21)
This Word was never preached and explained to me in any church and, as far as I know, to anybody else whom I knew in any religious organization or any denomination!
All of us who walk on this narrow way through the strength of the Lord and under His watchful eye are at this present time a Remnant according to the election of grace. (Rom. 11:5) We are overcoming not only hell, but also the world and finally the most difficult part – our old nature, old selves. And we are of a good cheer because the Lord had overcome the world (Jn. 16:33)… and hell.
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What I have presented in this book is the truth about the NEW MAN, NEW CREATION, which is coming soon, and the old man, Old Creation that will be destroyed soon.
I have also presented at least some reality, which I experienced in the Church of Jesus Christ and which I have been witnessing with the Lord for some 36 years now. The picture is getting worse as we are approaching the most important event in the closing stages of the history of man governing himself.
That event is the COMING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS THE BRIDEGROOM FOR HIS BRIDE ONLY (Mt. 25:6), WHICH IS NOT THE WHOLE CHURCH! The Bride is the wise virgins (Mt. 25:1-12), the Remnant in the Church, the Overcomers within the Church who love the Lord and He loves them (Rev. 3:9,10), the Firstfruits, the Manchild (Rev. 12:5), the Shulamite Maiden. (S.Sol. 6:9,13) Therefore, the Bride is NOT ALL that is the Church! This is (in comparative sense) similar to them that are NOT ALL Israel, which are of Israel. (Rom. 9:6)
Those believers that form the Bride of Christ are the only force that today stands in the way of the antichrist and his self-revelation, until they are taken out of the way, that is to say, they are raptured. (2Thess. 2:6,7)
The Rapture of theBRIDE out of the Church shall come before the son of perdition is first revealed to the world. (2Thess. 2:1-9// Rev. 3:10; 12:5) This is later on followed by the seven-year period of Tribulation. The majority of the Church-Israel (all non-Overcomers) will go right through the Tribulation until the last, seventh trump, third “woe”, when they will be raptured or “reaped”. (Mt. 24:29-31// Rev. 11:14,15; 14:14,15// 1Cor. 15:22,23,52// 1Thess. 4:15-18)
Then come the seven vials full of the wrath of God, (Rev. chpt. 16) which are not intended for the true born-again believers who are under the Blood of Christ. (1Thess. 1:10; 5:9, see alsoMt. 3:7// Rom. 2:5-11; 5:8,9// Eph. 2:3; 5:6,7// Col. 3:5-12, etc.). And then, finally, after the seven vials of the wrath of God, Our Lord comes to this earth with His Bride to establish His Kingdom of Heaven on earth. (Rev. 19:11-16; 17:14// Mt. 20:16; 22:14, etc.)
All these above events may take place within the next 24-27 years! This means, the Rapture of the Bride may take place ANYTIME FROM NOW and within the next 17-20 years, which is seven years sooner! This is not really my prophecy, it is my spiritual perception after studying prophecies for many years and understanding them and their signs with my heart and not with my head. I am aware of the Word in Mk. 13:32. Yet, I believe and know within myself that though we will not know “that day and that hour”, we may know “that year, or even that month”. Every bride senses within herself the “closeness” of the bridegroom’s coming… just as the bridegroom does. (ex. Mt. 24:33)
But this is how close we truly are to the end of this era of human government and to the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven with Christ ruling from the throne of David in Jerusalem. And we shall rule with Him for a thousand years (Rev. 20:4) And after the thousand years, comes the Last Judgment (Rev. 20:11-15), New Earth, New Heaven and New Jerusalem. (Rev. 21:1,2,10-21)
This seems to be a good place to present to the Church another shock, which means, another truth from the Word, which thus far must have been a mystery as I have never heard about it during my entire Christian life.
The Church has been waiting for the “Second Coming of the Lord”. May I humbly say that the Church missed His Second Coming by almost 2,000 years? May I also humbly say that there are four Comings of the Saviour and Lord to this earth? Would you believe it? Well, here is the Word of God for you to see and ponder.
God, Our Creator put on this earth number “4”; there are four seasons, four cardinal points, four heads of the river that went out of Eden (Gen. 2:10-14), four winds and four “corners” of the earth (Rev. 7:1). Even the Ark of the Covenant (Christ) was carried about by four golden rings. (Ex. 25:12) Therefore, the Saviour and Lord makes four Comings to this earth. The first was at Bethlehem. Then, immediately after His Resurrection and after speaking to Mary (Jn. 20:16,17), He ascended to His Father to receive from His hands the book sealed with seven seals. He appeared in the midst of the Throne, so there “stood a Lamb as it had been (freshly) slain…” (Rev. 5:1-7) And the same day, He returned to the earth to visit His scared disciples. (Jn. 20:19) THIS was the Second Coming of the Lord to the earth!
The Third Coming is about to happen when He comes as the Bridegroom only for His Bride (wise virgins). (Mt. 25: 6-12) And then His Fourth Coming is when He comes with His armies at the end of the Tribulation to establish The Kingdom of Heaven on earth. (Rev. 19:11-16) When the Church at large is raptured at the last, seventh trump (which is supposed to be His Second Coming), the Lord will NOT come to this earth, but the believers shall meet Him in the air. (1Cor. 15:52// 1Thess. 4:17)
Is this contradicting your current beliefs? If it does, your true future may also greatly surprise you!
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Just as I am writing this book, news from South East Asia arrived describing the horrible catastrophe and human suffering caused by a powerful earthquake and the resulting tsunami (tidal wave) near the island of Sumatra on December 26, 2004. It hit many coastal countries as far as Eastern Africa and caused countless thousands of dead and missing and destroyed vast coastal areas with towns and villages. I do not want to dwell on this subject except to share with you the faith received from the Lord concerning this unusual catastrophe of almost Biblical proportions.
The Lord is pointing us to His Word (Heb. 12:26, also Mt. 24:7) so that we would see and understand that this is a “precursor” of the shaking of the earth, which is increasing. The Lord had started to shake the earth as well as His House according to His Word. In fact, this catastrophe is a “small preview” of what will be happening during the Tribulation time of the second trumpet when the third part of the sea will become blood, and the third part of all living creatures in the sea will die and the third part of all ships will be destroyed. (Rev. 8:8,9) And during the second vial, all the sea will become as the blood of a dead man and every living soul will die in the sea! (Rev. 16:3)
My friends, the Word of God is being fulfilled in front of our eyes and it unmistakably shows also another truth, namely: “Behold, therefore, the goodness and severity of God”. (Rom. 11:20-22)
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To be continued next week in chapter 5 – part 2
brother Hanola
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