In these prophetic hours it is israel's Time to Shine

In These Prophetic Hours It is Israel’s Time to Shine

By Joel Joseph Researched by Pastor Gary K. Boyd Conclusion by Pastor Boyd

What a time it will be, like no other upon the earth!

So, is this an exciting time or what! I sense this is all about to speed up!

The Quickening: Is Time Accelerating?

Many have noted that time seems to be accelerating. The hours, days, seasons, and years appear to fly by faster than ever before. An hour no longer feels like 60 minutes (unless you’re waiting in line!). One week seems to run into the next. It’s as if we’re watching the blur of a speeding train pass by.

Science and Scripture The pace of life has certainly increased, but is time speeding up?

Recently, scientists have been shocked to discover that their measurements indicate the expansion of the Universe is actually increasing. Rather than slowing down, as their Big Bang theory postulates, astronomers have been stunned to learn that the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating.

CNN reports “Scientists are scratching their heads over a finding that indicates “the universe, rather than slowing down, is being expanded by a mysterious force at an accelerating rate.”

God’s Word states simply: “(God) alone spreads out the heavens…” (Job 9:8). Therefore this “mysterious force” is no mystery to a Bible believer.

It is God Himself who stretches out the heavens at the pace He sees fit.

What follows is a list of some Bible descriptions of the time period we are in, and the time that is dawning. Some are before the tribulation and others in it.

Today, most people have no idea, and as a result, no sense of urgency.

Being lost always produces stress. I’ve been lost a few times in my life in huge deserts – not so nice!

Judgement Coming

People carry on as though man will survive without judgement coming.

They think there will be no wrath of God. Be advised that God’s wrath is as holy as His love. In fact it is part of His love, because it is the cleanser and remover of damaging sin.

These things should cause repentance in your life. If you are wise you will turn around towards the things of God in all humility.

In these days of universal darkness, there are those with a heart after God like never before, and not what man says about God. There are some of these in every church. They are not satisfied with lukewarm, compromised, half-truths, loosely applied.

Today, you need to distance yourself from the word of the world, the mass-media, most politicians, and churches of replacement theology.

You need to be most discerning generally.

Please bear in mind, that at the discourse on the Mount of Olives, about the characteristics of the last days, our Lord warned five times in that single discourse against deception. It is the main sign of the times! It is worsening in many churches and ministries today allowing doctrines of devils to come in.

This is a Glorious, Wonderful and Frightening Time:

●It is a time the “forefathers and prophets looked to” with anticipation.

(Acts 3:24)

●It is a time of “false teachers and prophets being deceived and deceiving.” (2 Timothy 3:13)

●It is a time of “great delusion” and deceptive “doctrines of demons.” (2 Thessalonians 2:10)

●It is a time of “lying signs and wonders.” (2 Thessalonians 2:9)

●It is a time the “love of some will grow cold” and will “depart from the faith.” (1 Timothy 4:1)

●It is a time when some churches will become “lukewarm and be spat out.” (Revelation 3:16)

●It is a time of “no love of the truth” and the “truth being cast down.”

(Isaiah 59:14)

●It is a time of “mockers and scoffers” at the truth of Bible prophecy. (2 Peter 3:3)

●It is a time of the “outpouring of the Spirit,” seeing great numbers saved. (Acts 2:4)

●It is the time of “multitudes in the valley of decision.” (Joel 3:14)

●It is a time when many will be cut off for coming against Israel’s regathering. (Romans 11:21-22)

In These Prophetic Hours It is Israel’s Time to Shine:

In the Tribulation 144,000 are called out of the tribes of Israel to preach the gospel of Christ unto the world. The Tribulation period will initiate a whole new ball game for God’s people, Israel. It will commence a whole new age and program for them. The Church will be gone from the earth and the Church Age of grace will be over and past. It is very significant that the word church is not found one time from Revelation 4 through 21. That is because, during those days, it will not exist on Earth. The Church will have been removed and God will once again be working with his ancient covenant people, his believe people of Israel. At that

time, according to Zechariah 13:9, God will bring one-third of his people through the fire to refine them.

As Jeremiah put it, it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. During those days, the Jews will once again begin to call on the name of their God (Christ, the Jehovah of the Old Testament) and he will answer them. These are amazing prophecies and they will be literally fulfilled during the dark days of the Great Tribulation.

Reading scripture it states: ●It is the time the “desert blooms” in anticipation of Israel’s salvation.

(Isaiah 35:1-5)

●It is the time when the regathering of Israel is like “life from the dead.”

(Romans 11:15)

●It is the time of the removal of the veil of blindness on Israel to her Messiah. (Isaiah 60:2-3)

●It is the time “dry bones” arise from the Valley of Dry Bones, they live, walk and are saved. (Ezekiel 37:1-14)

●It is the time of the “Second Exodus,” which rivals the first Exodus.

(Jeremiah 16:14)

●It is the time when a “nation (Israel) will be born in a day.” (Isaiah 66:8)

●It is a time when nations will “divide the land of Israel,” sealing their judgement. (Joel 3:2)

●It is a time when nations will “stumble over Jerusalem” and be destroyed. (Zechariah 12:3)

●It is a time when the Palestinians (and Islam) will be defeated by Israel.

(Zephaniah 2:10)

Time is Almost Up for the World:

The times they are rapidly changing in today’s climate. Immorality is on the rise, lack of empathy has left the land, sin against mankind is everywhere, deception and lies control the media, as the devil works to increase his power moving relentlessly to a one world government.

The Bible states:

●It is the time of rampant, aggressive homosexuality – as in the “days of Noah and Lot.” (Luke 17:26)

●It is a time of abounding lawlessness with no restraint. (Matthew 24:12, Hosea 4:1-2)

●It is the time God will destroy sinners, and punish evil in fierce anger and wrath. (Isaiah 13:6-13)

●It is a time of trembling, the wrath of God, wrath of Satan and wrath of man running together.

●It is the time of the feast of vultures on the dead of the nations and the glorious marriage supper of the Lamb of God. (Revelation 18:6-9, Matthew 24:28)

Holy Spirit In all of these things, like never before, we need the Holy Spirit of God to lead us into all truth and to show us things to come. The Bible says in John 16:12-13, “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.”

Conclusion Jesus explained that at the very end of this age, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken” (Matthew 24:29).

We are told that God created “lights” (the sun, moon, and stars) in the heavens “for signs and seasons, and for days and years” (Genesis 1:1416).

For instance, a year is the time required for the earth to travel once around the sun. The seasons are caused by the changing position of the earth in relation to the sun. And the moon’s phases follow one another in clock-like precision – constituting the lunar calendar.

If these lights – the sun, moon, and stars – are affected in the last days, and the very “powers of heaven” shaken, does this indicate a significant disruption in how the dimension of time will pass? In the Book of Amos we are informed: “And it shall come to pass in that day [the Tribulation], says the Lord GOD, that I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight” (Amos 8:9).

Certainly God Himself “changes the times and the seasons” (Daniel 2:21) as He sees fit.

He is the one and only Sovereign God. He alone determines kings and nations and ordinances and times and seasons. So it is no surprise that His Word anticipates this time dilation, and perhaps acceleration.

Interestingly, Scripture even informs us that the Antichrist “shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law…” (Daniel 7:25).

The rapture is not here yet, nor the great tribulation, but as Bob Dylan once wrote in his lyrical piece “Times They Are a Changin”:

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin'.

For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.

May the Lord bless those that read this article. Maranatha………