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The End Game

I felt the Lord would have me speak a little bit about the end game, that is, where all of our Christian efforts are taking us.

Before I tackle this subject, I would like to emphasize something the Lord wants me to say. Change is coming to our lives in America. We Christian people need to make certain we are doing the will of Christ, and as much as possible leading our children and young people to do the will of Christ.

Many of us parents are endeavoring to make sure our children and young people get the best education possible so they can have a comfortable income; and that they are able to participate in all the activities of our culture. We ourselves may be spending considerable time making sure that in our “golden years” we will have enough money to live comfortably and independently.

I am not suggesting for one moment that we act foolishly regarding money or education. What the Lord is stressing to me is that we realize change is coming and life may be quite different in the near future.

For example, if the terrorists set of a plutonium dirty bomb in Manhattan it could leave several square miles uninhabitable for many years. If the terrorists set off an electromagnetic pulse bomb it could destroy all wireless communications over a large area. Can you picture what chaos that would cause in our daily lives? Our banking? Our employment? A great part of our daily life? It is almost unimaginable; yet not at all unrealistic.

A great part of our preparations for the future for our children and ourselves will not help in such situations, which very well may occur in our lifetime—certainly in the lifetimes of our children and young people.

The Lord is warning us strongly to prepare ourselves by walking with Him and listening to Him at all times. No matter how desolate the future may be in America, there is one aspect of life that will not change. That is our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is not subject to these changes. He is able to keep each of us who lives in His Presence at all times. Read about how the Lord protected Jeremiah when Jerusalem was being destroyed. Christ can do the same for you and me. Count on it!

The weight of this warning on my spirit makes me feel like Ze’ev Jabotinsky, as he traveled through Europe, warning the Jews to leave, pleading for the evacuation of the Eastern European Jews: “In the name of G-d. Let anyone of you save himself as long as there is still time. And time there is very little.” Some Jews left and went to other countries. Many did not. Then came the Holocaust.

(1/13/2008) I felt that today I should take a look at where we are, and the end game of all of this.

If we are to think clearly about the Kingdom of God we must realize we are dealing with three groups of people who will be saved into life on the new earth—that which will come down through the new sky, as described in the last two chapter of the Book of Revelation.

The three groups are as follows: the firstfruits of the Church: the entire Church, of which the firstfruits is a part; the nations of saved people on the new earth.

The program is as follows. The two thousand years of the Church Age have as their purpose the calling out of God’s elect from the nations of the earth; also the opportunity for those who choose to do so to overcome the obstacles they encounter and become part of God’s firstfruits of the earth.

The thousand-year Kingdom Age has as its purpose the preparing of those of the elect who are not part of the firstfruits, for their eternal role as members of the new Jerusalem, the glorified Christian Church. The firstfruits will help the less mature members. The stronger will help the weaker.

Once the present sky and earth are dismissed from the face of Jesus Christ, and the glorified Christian Church comes down through the new sky to be settled on a high mountain of the new earth, God will place on the new earth those people whom He has found worthy of salvation.

If I were to give you the entire scriptural background for what may be to you a new and astonishing thought I would be writing all night. You can hear the references if you will listen to the morning and evening tapes of 1/13/2008. As far as the firstfruits of the Church are concerned, you can find references to this group in the sixth chapter of the Song of Solomon; in the fourteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation; and in the seventh and eighth verses of the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation. She is “the unique one of her mother.”

As far as the whole Church is concerned, including the firstfruits, you can read about those people in the last two chapters of the Book of Revelation. As far as the nations of saved people of the earth, who are not part of God’s elect, you will find them mentioned in the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation.

As you read Chapters 60 and 61 of the Book of Isaiah, you will see the clear distinction between, and the interaction between, the saved peoples of the earth and God’s elect. God’s elect are always Israel. God glorified Church is always Jerusalem.

We Gentiles have come to believe that the Church, the elect, primarily is a Gentile creation. This is not at all the truth. The Church, the elect of God, God’s Israel, began with Abraham. It continued through the physical land and people of Israel. After the resurrection of Jesus, the Church consists of elect Jews and Gentiles. There is only the one new Man. Until this is grasped firmly, the words of the Hebrews Prophets will not be comprehensible.

Peter, the Jew, told us that the Prophets were speaking of us—Jews and Gentiles who are part of the Messiah, Jesus.

So the end game is the new Jerusalem. The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come!” They say this to the peoples of the earth. Whoever chooses to do so may come to the members of the Church and receive healing and eternal life without cost. This is true even today, of those mature saints who are able to bring Christ to others. But the pattern of the members of the Church bringing life, healing, joy, deliverance, and every other good thing to the peoples of the earth is eternal. This is the end game.

So, Christian, do not quit. Press on! Press on! God loves the peoples of the earth He has created. But He cannot draw near to them except through you. And He cannot use you as a vessel of blessing until He gets the love of the world, the lusts of your flesh and spirit, and your self-will, out of you. Once He does this, and fills you with the Father and the Son, you will be the fulfillment of the twelfth chapter of the Book of Isaiah. This is the end game. Go for it.

But remember what I said in the beginning. Very difficult times are coming to America. The way to prepare for trouble is not to amass money, or increase your education, or fortify and defend yourself and your loved ones in any other manner.

The only wisdom and power that will enable you to stand with your loved ones no matter what comes upon our nation because of sin, is the wisdom and power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Learn to live in His wisdom and power today, and teach your family, as much as possible, to live this way also.

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