Are We In The End Times?

[Trevor]

Brothers and sisters in Christ, be not willingly ignorant of the fact that it grieved the Lord to terrible anger in the days of the kings of Israel, some two to three thousand years ago, when just one evil man would institute the forced infant sacrifice to lesser gods such as Baal and Moloch, by the hands of hundreds of evil men, the tens of thousands of innocent children, who are of the most precious of the Lord’s possessions, thus resulting in the righteous judgement of millions. It must be horrible indeed to have your newborn child snatched up and murdered.

How great then ought the righteous anger of the Lord have grown in this present age, when tens of thousands of evil men have managed to deceive hundreds of millions of both men and women all across the earth into WILLINGLY sacrificing untold multitudes of innocent children DAILY to new gods such as Abortion and Planned Parenthood, who teach the false doctrines of selfishness and fornication and murder? Ought not the Lord be preparing the righteous judgement of billions, as the number of unsatisfied souls of innocent children bringing their just complaint before His throne ever multiplies?

Amen

 

[Brother-Paul]

I do believe that somewhere in scripture we are referred to as branches ingrafted into the vine, which I would assume makes us part of God's people who are Jews, making us spiritual Jews. To be of the same people as our Lord gives me the goose bumps and makes me feel closer. I'd like to present a thought. Recently it occurred to me that my family resides in a state of joy, I'm not saying that we have no problems but when the problems arrive we hand them over to the Lord and the pain is short lived. Many of our neighbours, however, seem to reside in permanent pain causing us to have need to pray often. It came to me that we are citizens of the kingdom of heaven and as such are not of this world. although we reside in the world and so come into contact with the enemy, hence the pain, we are not citizens and so the enemy has no jurisdiction over us. The reason I am mentioning this is that I believe we all need to know who's kingdom we belong to. To know this, I believe, is liberating.

Start with Jesus' words in John 15 the importance of abiding in Him and He in us

John 15:1-27 (NKJV)
1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
18 "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 He who hates Me hates My Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.
25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.'
26 "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

Then read Romans 11 below, I think this is what you were referring to brother.

Romans 11:14-27 (NKJV)
14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches were broken off (Jew), and you, being a wild olive tree (Gentile), were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in."
20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness.
Otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 And they (Jews) also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree (Gentile) which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins."

Blessings

 

[Br. Bear]

I do believe that somewhere in scripture we are referred to as branches ingrafted into the vine, which I would assume makes us part of God's people who are Jews, making us spiritual Jews. To be of the same people as our Lord gives me the goose bumps and makes me feel closer. I'd like to present a thought. Recently it occurred to me that my family resides in a state of joy, I'm not saying that we have no problems but when the problems arrive we hand them over to the Lord and the pain is short lived. Many of our neighbours, however, seem to reside in permanent pain causing us to have need to pray often. It came to me that we are citizens of the kingdom of heaven and as such are not of this world. although we reside in the world and so come into contact with the enemy, hence the pain, we are not citizens and so the enemy has no jurisdiction over us. The reason I am mentioning this is that I believe we all need to know who's kingdom we belong to. To know this, I believe, is liberating.

Yes
Well said. In the world but not of it.
More believers need to remember that the enemy has no jurisdiction over us, as you say.

Thank you and bless you ....><>

 

[Br. Bear]

Start with Jesus' words in John 15 the importance of abiding in Him and He in us

John 15:1-27 (NKJV)
1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
18 "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 He who hates Me hates My Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.
25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.'
26 "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

Then read Romans 11 below, I think this is what you were referring to brother.

Romans 11:14-27 (NKJV)
14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches were broken off (Jew), and you, being a wild olive tree (Gentile), were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in."
20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness.
Otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 And they (Jews) also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree (Gentile) which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins."

Blessings

There is a lot in those verses, Brother


Bless you ....><>

 

[Brother-Paul]

There is a lot in those verses, Brother


Bless you ....><>

There certainly is brother and I think these scriptures are best read together, the spirit flows through The Word like the sap in the vine.

Once we accept we are grafted into the true root stock, it should be clearer for those who think Christianity is a separate religion or the Old Testament is for Jews, to grasp verses like this...

Romans 1:16-17 (NKJV)
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

Romans 2:9-11 (NKJV)
9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;
10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
11 For there is no partiality with God.

Romans 11:16-17
16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches were broken off (Jew), and you, being a wild olive tree (Gentile), were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

John 15:4-6 Jesus said...
4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

Blessings

 

[Brother-Paul]

There is a lot in those verses, Brother


Bless you ....><>

John is my favourite Gospel

John 15 my favourite chapter


Abide in Christ and He abides in us, we can hear his heart beat brother, come closer He says, we will not only hear his heart beat, we will feel my heart beat.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine

Jesus is the vine we are the branches. We cannot bear good fruit unless we abide in him.


Amazing Love brother

 

[Br. Bear]

John 15.11: These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

 

[Brother-Paul]

So True brother

I love the chapter my friend, Joy to the world in Jesus precious name.

Joy to all who ABIDE in Him, as He ABIDES in us, His JOY will remain with us forever and it will be full even to overflowing.

Romans 15:13 (NKJV)
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Bless you

 

[Curtis]

What we know for sure is we are closer to the "end" then we are to the "beginning"!

 

[Brother-Paul]

So true brother.

The key to the latter days of the end time I believe was 15 May 1948 declaration of state of Israel. The jews returning.

The test are the birth pangs, they started slow but are now happening very quickly.

We recognise the things prophesied, watch and be ready for our Lord's Return in Glory.

Jesus is coming again Soon!

 

[Thomas (With out a doubt)]

Bambi -- as has already been stated -- it's talked about in the book of Daniel chapter 9-- however, I just relocated where some of the events Of that time are talked about.

For instance chapter 7 talks about the 144,000 of Israel sealed. 12,000 from each of the tribes -- vs 14 "I said to Him, "Sir, you know. And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation." vs 9 is where that section starts. Multitudes from all over the world come to Christ.

Surely, the millions of Jehovah's Witness's are the 144,000 to be saved.

 

[Sue D.]

@Thomas (With out a doubt) -- was just reading my own comment -- I've got no clue as to where "Bambi" came from. Unless it was in reference to another poster named "Bambi".

According to Revelation 7 -- those 144,000 are the Jews -- 12,000 from each tribe sealed to go into the tribulation period to evangelize the Jews who had rejected Jesus Christ as their promised Messiah.

 

[Trevor]

Surely, the millions of Jehovah's Witness's are the 144,000 to be saved.

Thomas, bless you, the JWs have a Bible that is apposed to the scriptures that most Christians rely on, they deny that Jesus is God. Their Bible in the first chapter of John says "In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was a god". The accepted scriptures says "and the word was God". That, I would suggest, is a pretty foundational shift from the truth, making the JWs suspect to say the least.

 

[Trevor]

So true brother.

The key to the latter days of the end time I believe was 15 May 1948 declaration of state of Israel. The jews returning.

The test are the birth pangs, they started slow but are now happening very quickly.

We recognise the things prophesied, watch and be ready for our Lord's Return in Glory.

Jesus is coming again Soon!

Amen brother-Paul.

 

[Trevor]

Amen brother-Paul.

Just to expand, people are now talking about building the third temple in Jerusalem. People have been saying that building the third temple is not possible because of the mosque on temple Mount. But it is now thought by some, that temple Mount, is in fact the old Roman garrison and is not the site of the old temple. The reason given is that there is no water on temple Mount and water is needed for sacrifice. However, in the old city, there are ruins where tethering posts been found next to running water where it is believed sacrifices took pace. If this does turn out to be the true site of the old temple then there is nothing to stop the building of the third temple. Needless to say, there is much excitement in Jerusalem.

 

[Brother-Paul]

@Thomas (With out a doubt) -- was just reading my own comment -- I've got no clue as to where "Bambi" came from. Unless it was in reference to another poster named "Bambi".

According to Revelation 7 -- those 144,000 are the Jews -- 12,000 from each tribe sealed to go into the tribulation period to evangelize the Jews who had rejected Jesus Christ as their promised Messiah.

Totally agree Sue

 

[Brother-Paul]

Thomas, bless you, the JWs have a Bible that is apposed to the scriptures that most Christians rely on, they deny that Jesus is God. Their Bible in the first chapter of John says "In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was a god". The accepted scriptures says "and the word was God". That, I would suggest, is a pretty foundational shift from the truth, making the JWs suspect to say the least.

So true Trevor

 

[Heilswahrheit]

If we look back over the past century, we can see we've been living in the end times for some time now. From 1917 the regathering of the Jews into their homeland commenced. From there a procession of prophetic scripture has already been fulfilled. What I am seeing now is the prelude of the Beast system being brought into full manifestation. We are certainly close to the end.

 

[Sue D.]

Israel became a nation in 1949.

Lots of history being lived in Now. And happening fairly quickly.

 

[Brother-Paul]

Israel became a nation in 1949.

Lots of history being lived in Now. And happening fairly quickly.

Greetings Sue

Israel was declared a nation again in May 1948.

Blessings