GOING ABOUT ONE’S OWN BUSINESS FILLED WITH WORLDLY DISTRACTIONS until the LORD returns to retrieve His bride is one of the most destructive views, perhaps even damnable, resulting from any New Testament takeaway that I’ve ever heard. And yet the western church justifies this very lifestyle in more ways than I even cared to admit for much of my adult life, mostly because I had an active part in the lie.
God is holy. The LORD’s soon marriage to His bride is a tux and gown event. And those who are being indiscreet with the kingdom invites, as Jesus stressed any number of times, may just find their lamps out of oil and the door to His chamber locked when He arrives.
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.” Luke 12:37
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MY FAMILY’S YEAR-LONG INTERIM IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS QUICKLY COMING to an end. We only have a few more days before returning to the road full time, as the LORD has prompted us to do, and we’re excited for the short and long term possibilities. Outside, as I type these words, the rain is so concentrated that it can be difficult at times to distinguish its boundary between the clouds above and the reservoir of water below our deck. The wind howls in gusts, rustling violently through hanging curtains of Spanish moss. And thunder barrels over the limbs of ancient grand oak. Familiar weather for the Carolinian coastline.
Last night it was pouring too. My wife and I like to sleep upstairs with the balcony doors open so that the full impact of each night’s curiosities can be heard. If it’s not the deafening bugs and the croak of frogs and the screeching owls and the boat-like growls of alligators in the bayou or the often continuous whirl of midnight trains hounding my dreams then its the thunderous onslaught of rain.
In the midst of that storm I received the longest, clearest message from the LORD in my entire life. It came over several concise stanzas. Firstly, I have been informed: the Beast is here. Secondly, the Mark is ready to be rolled out. But what really caught my attention, as it came to the words of my Master, is this:
“MY RETURN IS IMMINENT.
BE READY.”
Imminent can be defined as: “likely to occur at any moment; impending.”
But from a standpoint of Bible prophecy, it can also simply mean that no warning signs will indicate a short-term countdown, as Jesus’ coming is concerned. No wonder the late John Walvoord called imminency “the heart of Pretribulationism.” I’ll be posting almost two-dozen scripture verses below that spotlight the undeniable theology of immanency in the scriptures and which further outlines why those post-tribulation fan boys don’t have a leg to stand on.
Unless the LORD tarries, we could be only moments away from eternity.
Jesus will come unexpectedly. And when He does, sudden destruction will follow. God willing, I’ll be writing more on this topic of immanency and sudden destruction in the near future, as He’s asked me to do. But in the meantime I simply cannot deny such crucial information, which He gave me in the midst of the storm, as a watchman assigned to the midnight hour. For those who have not repented of their sins, for those who have backslidden in their faith and confused their engagement with Christ to a marriage with the world, then know this: The HARPAZO, or unannounced catching away of the saints, may also prove a judgement on the church. Did Billy Graham himself not assess, among his many highly populated crusades, that 80% of the church may not be saved? God alone is judge. I am not here to judge any one individual. All I know is what is revealed to me through His Word. In the midst of sudden destruction, many “insiders to the faith” will be brought to shame.
The LORD has spoken to me. And the alarm is sounding among His watchmen and prophets all across the world.
“MY RETURN IS IMMINENT.
BE READY.”
Get your heart right with God now. It’s the midnight hour. Though the LORD may tarry, don’t bet eternity on it. Just give the news a quick looksy-loo and know we may not have another minute to loose. You’ve been warned.
Maranatha!
Noel
“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only” (Mat 24:36).
“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him” (Mat 25:1-6)
“Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly He find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:33-37).
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.” Luke 12:37
“Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light” (Rom 13:11-12).
“And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly” (Rom 16:20).
“So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor 1:7).
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil 3:20).
“Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand” (Phil 4:5).
“And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess 1:10).
“Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober” (1 Thess 5:6).
“That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Tim 6:14).
“Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus” (Titus 2:13).
“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation” (Heb 9:28).
“Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the Day approaching” (Heb 10:24-25).
“For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry” (Heb 10:37).
“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door” (James 5:7-9).
“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:13).
“But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer” (1 Peter 4:7).
“Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life” (Jude 1:21).
“Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown” (Rev 3:11).
“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book” (Rev 22:7).
“He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Rev 22:20).
