Our Wedding Invitation!

Summary: The Bridegroom comes amid calamity, a judgment allowed by God. It happened in Egypt when God took Israel from calamity to a covenant relationship at Sinai and later He said, "I am married to you," Jer 3:14 "All those things happened... for examples [for] the ends of the world," 1Cor 10:11.

The subject is complex so Christ used several wedding parables. Here is a synthesis of His three wedding parables in an article submitted to Christianity Today. .

Will We Be Late for our Wedding?

Christ's wedding parables are so different, they seem like just a metaphor for readiness to some Christians. We get a better picture when we see what they have in common.

1. They are about a wedding that isn't understood. In Matthew 22, the wedding invitation was scorned and ridiculed. In Luke's wedding parable (12:32-48), Peter asks, "Is this parable for us or for all?" In Matthew 25:5, Christ implies that even the wise are asleep with their lights out.

2. There is a sudden event with a crucial need in each parable. In Matthew 22, the king finds a man unprepared--without a wedding garment and he is thrown out. In Matthew 25, we find a cry at midnight and the need for oil in the lamps. In Luke 12:36, there is a sudden knock to which we are to "open unto Him immediately," Luke 12:36. Waiting for church committees or leaders to tell us what to do will be too late. That's like foolish virgins going "to them that sell" (ministers refine the Word into oil)--but those who wait to be told what to do will arrive too late (Matt 25:9,10). We need to be watching to open immediately, Luke 12:36,37. This is actually the key ingredient...

3. What are we watching for?

Amos says God won't do anything without revealing it, so what is it that He wants to reveal? We get a clue in the next verse--Amos 3:7,8. "The lion has roared, who will not fear?" The first two verses of Amos support the "roar" as an earthquake, as does Joel 3:16--"the Lord shall roar...the heavens and earth shall shake."

This is the Lion of Judah (Rev 5:5) roaring with an earthquake that introduces the seven seals in Rev 6:1 where the lion's roar is the "thunder" from the first creature (Rev 4:7) that John heard. The earthquake also initiates the seven trumpets (Rev 8:5,6) and the seven thunders (lion's roar, Rev 10:3)

Earthquake is also shown to initiate "the day of the Lord"--the Old Testament term for end-times, as seen in Joel 2:10,11; Zephaniah 1:7-10; Zechariah 14:1-5, and it's the "sudden destruction" when they are saying 'Peace and safety," 1Thess 5:3.

Earthquake as the initiating event is supported by the "knock" in Luke 12:36--it's the only other place where Christ "nders (knocks" is Revelation 3:20--for a lukewarm church that ended in an earthquake circa 63 AD. Type and antitype?

"Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when He comes shall find watching. Verily I say unto you, He shall gird Himself and make them sit down to meat, and shall come forth and serve them." Luke 12:36,37. (Note the Passover imagery.)

Zeph 1:8 suggests that "in the day of the Lord's sacrifice" [Passover] God will "execute judgment" as He did in Egypt where there was also a midnight cry and God took His people to a covenant (marriage) relationship at Sinai and later said, "I am married to you," Exod 12:12; Jer 3:14...Paul included the Exodus when he said, "All those things happened...for our admonition...ends of the world." 1Cor 10:1,11. An earthquake to initiate end-times is what we're watching for, but...

4. What does "watching" mean?

We tend to spiritualize watching, thinking it means to be spiritually aware. But everyone thinks they are aware. "Watching" is translated from the Greek word, gregoreo, meaning to be awake.

We can't be awake every night, but there was only one night in the year when Israel was to be awake--on the eve of Passover--and that's when Christ asked his disciples, "Watch with Me..." Exodus 12:10; Matthew 26:38-40.

That night celebrates the greatest events of Old and New Testaments--God's deliverance of His people from physical bondage, and His deliverance from spiritual bondage of sin.

Passover was when Christ sweat blood and was whipped for us? We don't need to kill lambs, but Christ clued us that we could be like the goodman who will have his house broken by His coming as a thief because, like the goodman, we don't know when to watch, Matt 24:43. "If you don't watch, I will come on you as a thief." Revelation 3:3.

At a time when some are calling for fasting and prayer or all night prayer vigils for lesser causes, let's not overlook the best information on when to expect Christ's "knock" as each wedding parable has imagery of judgment and Passover.

For #5, read next column>

 


New World Order:
Survival Means Opt-Out!

Early Americans fled the Old World and generally believed that the first beast (above) in Revelation 13 represented the papacy as it had assimilated all the characteristics of previous kingdoms in Daniel 7.

The lion, bear, leopard and dreadfulbeast with 10 horns were survived by the papacy represented by an amalgamated beast with a mouth like a lion and feet like a bear. It looked like a leopard and had the total of seven heads and ten horns from Daniel 7.

But the beast had a “deadly wound” ( the Protestant Reformation). John saw this deadly wound heal and “all the world wondered after the beast…” Rev 13:3. Every living US presidentbowed before the casket of a dead pope. The wound by the Protestant Reformation has healed and few protest the papacy today.

America is represented by the second beast in Revelation 13:11-15. It has two horns like a lamb, but no crowns as the previous beast had. This suggests a government without a king and a church without a popeProtestant America.

The US beast causes fire to come down from the sky (Hiroshima) and it makes an image (look-alike) of the previous (papal) Old World Order. The US is making a New World Order. That's the meaning of the Latin on our $1 bill-- Novus Ordo Seclorum.

The Bible describes it as an image of the Old World Order because it will come down to enforcing false worship when no one can buy or sell without the mark or number of compliance, Rev 13:15-17

video www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/nworder05.html

The papacy is behind the push for global government because it wants to regain the power it lost in the Old World. The imagery of Revelation 17 depicts the church of Rome as a harlot, riding and guiding the New World Order beast .

The mandatory National ID Card is a preliminary step to forced compliance and the loss of freedom. Those wanting medical care can submit to it, but the truth is, medical care is not health care, and it's a leading cause of death because drugs are chemicals that are toxic... http://LeadingCauseOfDeathPrescriptionDrugs.com

When asked about the end of the world, Christ said to understand the book of Daniel, (Matthew 24:15). Daniel and his friends opted out of the king's health care plan--his meat and wine.

The wine could represent the wine of Babylon. We are called out of Babylon, for "by her sorceries [Greek word is pharmekeia] were all nations deceived." Rev 18:23. Wine (alcohol) is the oldest drug in history, and represents Rx drugs.

Those itching to control the world in a global government will soon have control, but first there's a time of judgment signaled by a huge earthquake. It's announced in Revelation 14:7-10: Fear God (more than man's enforcement of wrong worship and honor Him.)

In spite of everything going to hell around us, there's good news in the face of bad. We just need to understand it, because as in Noah's time, God provides a way of escape. In the face of Executive Orders, we can be spared from FEMA camps. 

Five Reasons this is Impending

1. "When they shall say, 'Peace and safety,' sudden destruction comes on them," 1Thess 5:3. "Peace and safety" is the music of those who push the UN agenda to grab guns. They want to end US sovereignty.

2. "When you see [military force as the early disciples saw when they fled Jerusalem in 66 AD] flee..." Matthew 24:15. Google or search YouTube, or BeforeItsNews.com for many eye witness accounts of military...

3. "If you see a sword come on the land and blow not the trumpet, they may die, but their blood I require at your hand." Ezekiel 33:6.

An elderly couple camping off the road in AZ were told to get back into town by a man who became irate when they said they were not hurting anything. Before they could get packed up, a vehicle with a machine gun on the hood pulled up and four men who didn't speak English got out. (Sword on the land).

4. "If I whet my glittering sword and my hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies..." Deut 32:41.

  • A comet like a sword hung over Jerusalem in 66 AD as an omen.
  • A comet with a split tail resembling two swords hung over America in 1861 as the Civil War began.
  • Two comets (two swords) make their appearance this year--civil war again?

5. Economists are saying America is gone forever. This also fits Scripture that rich men will weep and howl in the last days, Jame 5:1-3. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/03/america-is-gone-its-never-coming-back-please-share-2607146.html

Visit http://RichardRuhling.com and if you can't afford $2.99, send an email to Ruhliing7@juno.com and I'll gift you a copy of Apocalypse 2013: to Survive the Fall of America.

For a better understanding of Bible reasons for the initiating event, an earthquake on May 25, please visit http://MayJudgmentDay.com

 

5. Didn't Christ say, You don't know the day or hour?

The Greek word for "know" is eido. It means to be aware, consider, perceive, understand. Christ was telling His disciples, You don't understand....

  • Each time He said it, He gave an example that fit a provision in the law for Passover a month later, "as in the days of Noah" when the Flood had Passover timing, but in the second spring month. Noah entered the ark on the 10th day--the same day the sacrifice was selected in Exodus 12:3. When people didn't heed Noah's last appeal, they selected themselves for sacrifice. We might do the same by not watching as requested by Christ. The law in Numbers 9:10,11 specifies Passover for contact with a dead person as Noah who buried his grandfather, Methuselah, whose name meant, "at his death the sending forth of waters." Gen 5:22, margin. What a message in his name! Have we been in contact with a dead church body?

  • After foolish virgins missed the marriage, Christ again said, You don't (understand... for the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, Matthew 25:13,14. Again it is an example of Numbers 9:10,11, a provision for Passover a month later if there's a long journey. Christ would be taking a far journey (to heaven) and may be expected to come as Bridegroom in conformity to His law specifying second Passover--that law is in effect "till heaven and earth pass," Matthew 5:18.

Seeking harmony with Christ's words to watch and pray, we should do so on Friday night, May 24/25 because the thin crescent signaling the new month should be seen two weeks earlier in the western sky 20-40 minutes after sunset on Friday evening.

For #6, please see Column 3 >>>

The Seven Seals are a focus on topics the Bible emphasizes seven times as a mark of end-time truth, just as the book of Revelation is a book of sevens.

Not only are these "end-time truth" but they are the basis of our covenant as we marry the Bride-groom. Bible covenants were linked to sevens, like the seven ewe lambs that Abraham gave to Abbimelech in making a covenant.

We give God the sevens as we pledge ourselves faithful to Him for the end-time. If so, "He will make [us] ruler over all that He has" and will share His throne with us, Rev 3:20,21; Luke 12:35-37,44.

To read the first seal, please visit  http://GodsName1stSeal.wordpress.com  

      


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Law of God: Problem 
for Pastors and Churches, but Good News for Individuals

From the beginning in Genesis 3, the enemy of man has tried to make God's rules appear impossible or unfair--and he has worked to twist and change them.

God's law is a test loyalty to God in a controvesy betweeen God and the devil (whom God would have destroyed for his rebellion and attempted takeover of His government, but then all the rest of God's creation would have served God from fear, so God had to allow a demonstration of Satan's principles versus God's law of love.

Eve wasn't hungry, but if she had been, she could have eaten of any other tree. Being made in God's image was not enough when she was tempted to eat the fruit to be like God. She became disloyal, tempted Adam and a night of woe fell on mankind, Genesis 3.

Preachers try to make things easy for their congregation, or people might not be back or support the church. Popular pulpits make it sound like Jesus will save anyone--all you have to do is ask and don't worry about works to keep God's law.

Yes, it's true, God wants to save everyone, but His salvation is based on our willingness to repent (change) when we understand His ways are better than ours. He can forgive any sin on that basis, but He will not excuse any sin so we can keep doing it our way.

He therefore, becomes Savior and Lord. They go together--we can't have one without the other, but "His yoke is easy, His burden is light." Matt 11:28.

As we repent and turn from wrong, He helps us in many ways that everyone who gives themselves to Him knows.

No, we can't earn our salvation by our ability to keep His law--this is why Christ died, to pay for our sins, but as a standard to live by--we must have His laws or our societies become chaotic and rebellious as we see worldwide for man's laws.

God overlooks our sins of ignorance but we must repent and go by the best information we know, Acts 17:30,31.

An earthquake ended the last lukewarm church of Laodicea in Revelation 3 as a type for our end-time antitype when American Christianity, also lukewarm with materialism, is ending. Churches will move either toward complaince with New World Order (the "broad way that leads to destruction," Matt 5) or toward the unknown Messiah of the narrow way who is largely unknown--never called Jesus--there was no "J" letter or sound in Greek or Hebrew!

The Bible suggests serious problems for pastors who have kept Christ (Truth--He said, "I am the Truth") out. This is the picture with Christ knocking at the closed door and the True Witness says to the aggelos, messenger, that he is blind and naked.

That's a bad combination--you can't even go to the door to find out who's there. And this is the person who is thrown out of the marriage for not having a wedding garment in Matthew 22:11.

And there's another overlooked problem. Pastors are afraid to preach Bible truth because they could lose tax-exempt status for anything that might be political, like speaking against redefining of marriage, gay "rights," etc. If we compromise in one area, other areas are affected--all of this playing a part of "Babylon is fallen," like Egypt before the Exodus.

Summary

God afflicted Egypt for its bondage and idolatry, and He took Israel from a calamity with a midnight cry (also in the wedding parable, Matt 25:6) to Sinai where they covenanted to be God's people and He later said, "I am married unto you," Jeremiah 3:14.

America is like Egypt. Both places were a haven for God's people, but things changed for Egypt and they are changing for America.

That history is for us because Paul included the Exodus when he wrote, "All those things happened to them for [types]...written for our admonition...the ends of the world," 1 Corinthians 10:1,11.

Just as God attacked the gods of Egypt--the Nile River turned to blood and the cattle got disease, so we might see parallels with our money god being afflicted.

The good news is that our God isn't taken by surprise. Our duty is to be ready like Israel was for big events and tough chewing--they ate unleavened bread for seven days. We aren't used to tough chewing that the Bible represents, but we are getting to the time when we will need to do so, and the wise will have light to share. May God help us as we watch solemn events unfold, and for more information on readiness, visit http://MayJudgmentDay.com to read the 3rd column on the right.

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6. Huge reward for compliance is contrasted with serious loss for failure.Since the Bible is it's own expositor, the wise virgins in Matthew 25 are the 144,000 virgins in Revelation 14:4 who are privileged to follow Christ wherever He goes in eternity.

If we are "watching" (awake) when Christ "knocks" (because He has clued us with Passover imagery and statements "as in the days of Noah" or "like a man traveling to a far journey") we can be watching and open unto Him immediately with a willingness for a covenant with Him. If so, "He will make [us] ruler over all that He has." Luke 12:44.

In this case, it's the New Covenant that includes His promise to write His laws in our hearts--something we must have before we are ready to meet Him in the sky.

If He should knock and we are not watching, Luke 12:36-48 suggests we will be beaten with stripes. Like entering the ark in Noah's time, it wasn't hard to do, but fear of being ridiculed caused stopped the antidiluvians and even caused Peter to deny his Lord. Are we afraid of what others think; what have we learned from these accounts?

Fellowship with Christ in His sufferings on the night set to commemorate it should be our priority. We have misunderstood some of Paul's writings as doing away with the law. That's true as a method to earn our salvation, but not as a standard to live by. 

Paul said those holy days were shadows of things to come, Col 2:17. This means they weren't fulfilled except for animal sacrifices. If we aren't watching, Christ promises He will come as a thief.

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