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<p>The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (Romans 16:20—NIV) </p>
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<p>Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him. (Amos 5:18,19—NIV) </p>
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<p>Can't you just picture your Christian friends returning with Christ to crush the wicked under their feet after having lived the good life for seven years! </p>
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<p>Can you see now why Satan has instructed the churches that they must fly out of here, that the Lord is coming to take us to Heaven? Wouldn't you teach the same thing if you were Satan? Do you think he wants Jesus and His brothers to come and ruin everything he has built? </p>
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<p>The stuff that is preached today is enough to make a horse laugh and grow feathers. </p>
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<p>This is why we are practicing for the rapture, with Satan's encouragement. He wants us out of here so he can continue to "eat the dust" of human flesh, just as God has forced him to do. </p>
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<p>I am going to stick with the Bible and the rest may do as they like. </p>
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<p>I think Satan would like to give us all a swift kick to help us up to the great retirement home in the sky. </p>
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<p>The Bible says the Lord is coming with a shout, the voice of Michael, and the trumpet of God, and those who died in Christ are going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. It says nothing about going to Heaven. All the saints who return with Christ have already been in Heaven, some of them for thousands of years, and their desire is to return to the earth, not to make a U-turn so those who are alive at the time can get to sit in their mansion for seven years. </p>
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<p>For myself, I don't intend to leave my turf, my inheritance. How about you? Let Satan leave. This is our place. </p>
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<p>Since the Bible teaches we are going to return with Christ and release the creation from the bondages of sin and corruption, what does this tell us about how we should prepare ourselves? </p>
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<p>The Bible tells us that when the Lord appears to take over His (and our) inheritance, we are going to appear with Him. </p>
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<p>We have to learn to live in iron righteousness, fiery holiness, and stern obedience to the Father. </p>
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<p>In several instances in the Old Testament and the New the coming of Christ and His saints is pictured as the attack of an invincible army. </p>
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<p>First of all, we are going to govern the nations with a rod of iron. The rod of iron is the scepter of iron righteousness held by Christ and every true saint. That iron is being created in us now as through the grace of Christ we overcome every enemy. </p>
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<p>Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand—A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come. (Joel 2:1,2—NIV) </p>
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<p>We are going to have to live with the consuming Fire, our holy God. Everything in us that is flammable must be fireproofed. Each day of our life we must press further into the holiness of God. Through the Spirit of God we must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. </p>
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<p>I know some claim the second chapter of Joel is talking about grasshoppers. Don't you just know the Day of the Lord is the coming of grasshoppers. </p>
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<p>We must be sternly obedient to the Father. If there were one disobedient person in the army of Christ the invasion of the earth would be jeopardized. Remember Achan! </p>
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<p>Well, if some hold fast to grasshoppers, let's go to another place. </p>
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<p>Every trace of worldliness must be destroyed out of us. </p>
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<p>Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things, says the LORD Almighty. (Malachi 4:3—NIV) </p>
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<p>Every trace of the lusts and appetites of the flesh must be destroyed out of us. </p>
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<p>The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14—NIV) </p>
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<p>Every trace of self-will must be destroyed out of us. </p>
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<p>No grasshoppers here! </p>
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<p>Christ must be brought to maturity in us. </p>
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<p>It looks like we are going to be busy when the Lord returns. Some are teaching that we are going to be caught up to Heaven, go through a judgment in which every person who has taken the four steps of salvation hears "Well done, good and faithful servant" (even though he or she has been neither good nor faithful), and then return seven years later as fierce as Genghis Khan, ready to rip up the earth. </p>
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<p>The original sin was disobedience to God. We cannot possibly return to earth and restore Paradise if we ourselves are disobedient. </p>
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<p>Can't you picture it? After we have spent seven years sitting around talking small talk with the neighbors, eating ice cream by the gallon and never getting fat, barbecuing steak night after night without having a heart attack, suddenly we are going to mount our white war stallion and come thundering down through the clouds to confront an amazed Antichrist, the kings of the earth, Satan, the fallen angels (some of whom are as large as a continent), and self-willed religious people. </p>
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<p>Many believers are disobedient to Christ. They do not have a prayer of being in the army of the Lord that will return with Christ. </p>
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To be continued. [[For What Are You Preparing Yourself? 9]]
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<p>"Ah, but I am saved by grace!" Saved by grace my foot! </p>
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<p>You mean even though you are disobedient to God He sees you through Christ, so in God's eyes you are not really disobedient and will return to rule the nations with a rod of iron? Is this what you believe? Doesn't your common sense tell you better than this? </p>
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To be continued. [[For What Are You Preparing Yourself? 10]]
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Latest revision as of 15:08, 18 September 2019

For What Are You Preparing Yourself? 8

Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him. (Amos 5:18,19—NIV)

Can you see now why Satan has instructed the churches that they must fly out of here, that the Lord is coming to take us to Heaven? Wouldn't you teach the same thing if you were Satan? Do you think he wants Jesus and His brothers to come and ruin everything he has built?

This is why we are practicing for the rapture, with Satan's encouragement. He wants us out of here so he can continue to "eat the dust" of human flesh, just as God has forced him to do.

I think Satan would like to give us all a swift kick to help us up to the great retirement home in the sky.

For myself, I don't intend to leave my turf, my inheritance. How about you? Let Satan leave. This is our place.

The Bible tells us that when the Lord appears to take over His (and our) inheritance, we are going to appear with Him.

In several instances in the Old Testament and the New the coming of Christ and His saints is pictured as the attack of an invincible army.

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand—A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come. (Joel 2:1,2—NIV)

I know some claim the second chapter of Joel is talking about grasshoppers. Don't you just know the Day of the Lord is the coming of grasshoppers.

Well, if some hold fast to grasshoppers, let's go to another place.

Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things, says the LORD Almighty. (Malachi 4:3—NIV)

The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14—NIV)

No grasshoppers here!

It looks like we are going to be busy when the Lord returns. Some are teaching that we are going to be caught up to Heaven, go through a judgment in which every person who has taken the four steps of salvation hears "Well done, good and faithful servant" (even though he or she has been neither good nor faithful), and then return seven years later as fierce as Genghis Khan, ready to rip up the earth.

Can't you picture it? After we have spent seven years sitting around talking small talk with the neighbors, eating ice cream by the gallon and never getting fat, barbecuing steak night after night without having a heart attack, suddenly we are going to mount our white war stallion and come thundering down through the clouds to confront an amazed Antichrist, the kings of the earth, Satan, the fallen angels (some of whom are as large as a continent), and self-willed religious people.

To be continued. For What Are You Preparing Yourself? 9

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