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Aspects of Our Preparation for Participation in the End-time Witness

Aspects of Our Preparation for Participation in the End-time Witness

From our point of view, the two witnesses of the eleventh chapter of the Book of Revelation portray the final witness of the coming of the Kingdom of God. The witnesses are Christ and His Saints, who will be endued with a double portion of the Spirit of God. Perhaps every true Christian wants to be a part of this witness; but there are conditions we must meet if we are to participate in the witness; and then pressures that must be overcome if we are to stand spiritually during the reign of Antichrist, which will follow the unprecedented witness.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14)

(2/26/2006) The last witness of the coming of the Kingdom of God will be a "sackcloth" revival. The current Christian "ministry" sometimes appears in a showy fashion, wearing expensive clothes. This no longer is acceptable.

What must be stressed, if we hope to be part of the last witness, that which may be closer at hand than we realize, is that the Holy Spirit is seeking those who will listen to Him as He deals with the worldliness, lust, and self-will in our personality. If we are not willing to obey the Spirit as He guides and enables us to throw off all that is not of God in our personality, we have no hope of being a part of the "two-witness" testimony.

There is a period of time spoken of by Bible scholars as Daniel’s seventieth week. The clock stopped ticking when Christ came to the earth. It soon will be ticking again.

There shall be a prophetic week. The first half of the week will be occupied with the great end-time witness, empowered by the harvest rain of the Spirit. The second half of the week will see Antichrist governing the cities of the earth. The godly remnant, according to my understanding, will be driven to wilderness areas. There they will be joined by the elect of the Jews who were told to flee by the Lord Jesus when they see the abomination that makes desolate.

The abomination that makes desolate consists, as I see it, of a statue of a man standing on the roof of a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, where Christ stood during His third temptation. Also, Antichrist himself will sit on the Seat of Reconciliation in the Temple.

Perhaps, in his presumption and personal ambition, Antichrist will leap from the roof of the Temple and be miraculously kept from injury, thus proving he is greater then Christ (meanwhile declaring that Christ was afraid to jump). I think I see the hand of the False Prophet in this. The False Prophet is composed of miracle-working Christians who are not patiently bearing their cross and looking to Jesus for everything. Remember, it is the False Prophet who give breath to the image of the Beast, to the image of Antichrist.

How can we keep from being deceived when these awesome events take place? Only by denying ourselves, taking up our cross, and following Jesus.

When the witness has been given to God’s satisfaction, the special anointing will be lifted. Then Antichrist will be able to overcome the testimony. The testimony concerning the coming of the Kingdom of God will be driven from the cities of the earth.

The most significant aspect of Antichrist is self-rule, self-will. Self-rule, as distinguished from Christ’s rule, is admired in America today. Even Christians have "got to be me." This is the opposite of God’s will for us, which is to place Christ on the throne of our heart.

But Antichrist will in the future emphasize the value of self-will. He himself will be the most complete example of self-will. He will have a charming appearance; but the fires of Hell burn in his soul.

Some of those who bore the anointing will flee into wilderness areas, as I have stated. Christ, the Ruler of the age to come, will be brought to maturity in them. The birth of Christ in His saints is described in the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation.

After Christ has decided that Antichrist has had a full opportunity to reveal to Heaven and earth the fruit of Satan’s personality, He shall return. The elect Gentiles and elect Jews shall be transformed at His coming. They will join together with the witnesses of all time, beginning with Abel, who will return with Jesus and take back their bodies from the grave.

However, some who bore the Divine testimony will yield to the abundance of sin, just as today many Christian pastors, and members of their congregation, are watching pornography on the Internet. They will be removed from their position at the right hand of God in Christ and thrown to the earth.

Yet others will be tortured and slain because they will not obey Antichrist as he works with the leaders of the churches to feed the poor, clothe the naked, heal the sick, and perform other works of social benefit. The majority of the "believers" in the church will not realize the Holy Spirit has departed and that the Christian institutions, which once had been the habitation of the Spirit of God, are now "dead bodies."

It will be just as Anna and Simeon recognized Christ, while the remainder of the Jews in the Temple were going about their religious duties.

The godly remnant will flee; the indecisive will yield to the flattery of Antichrist; the remainder will be tortured and killed. Thus the testimony will no longer be present in the cities of the earth. Only in Mount Zion, in the godly remnant in the wilderness, will there be salvation.

Of all the millions of believers who attend a Christian church in our day, there seem to be just a few who are listening to hear what the Lord Jesus is saying. They are confessing and turning away from their worldliness, lusts, and self-will.

They also are preparing themselves for the persecution and martyrdom that shall follow the great witness of the Kingdom of God. They have placed their families on the altar of God and will give up everything they treasure rather than deny Christ in any manner.

There is a godly remnant today. They can hear the Spirit of God. You too can be one of them. But you will have to seek the Lord with all your heart. The American culture is no friend of the true saint. It is one long Siren call to lure us to destruction.

Only the most determined will escape being destroyed by the present distractions. But their rewards in the Kingdom are unimaginable in the present hour.


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