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Joseph Chambers
The Holy Bible Is Infallible
IF YOU DOUBT THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE HOLY BIBLE THIS IS A MUST READ!
The Holy Scripture is the most breathtaking book in the world. Not one nuance was missed as God revealed His revelation to His prophets. Our Heavenly Father was so satisfied with His revelation and its perfection that He promised to preserve it for every generation. “Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, Thou shalt preserve them from this generatio for ever.” (Psalms 12:7) Not only did He promise to preserve it, but He warned men not to corrupt it and leveled a serious judgment upon any man that tampers with His truth. In God’s design, He apparently first settled His Word in Heaven and then progressively poured it into holy vessels to be written down for His church. “Forever, O Lord, thy Word is settled in Heaven.” (Psalm 119:89)
Truth Begins and Ends with Jesus Christ! He is the eternal Word (logos). “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1:1-5)
The truth as written in Heaven and revealed by His prophets in the Bible is centered in and totally identified with Jesus Christ as revealed in His flesh. In fact, Apostle John said, “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:4) Imagine a Bible (the Word of God) that is not only a book, but is revealed in a person, the Son of God. The Bible and Jesus Christ are united in essence. Both the “Word” written and the “Living Word” are God’s perfect revelation. Pilate, in speaking with Jesus, asked, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) He asked this question of Jesus because the Son of Man had said, “And for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.” (John 18:37) Jesus had said earlier to His disciples, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” (John 14:6) Jesus Christ is the truth in exactly the same fashion that the Bible is truth. They are inseparable. One is the Person and the other is the perfect revelation of that Person.
The First Testament and Jesus Christ! The Book of Genesis is filled with the person of Jesus Christ. In the very first Chapter of Genesis, Jesus Christ is revealed at least seven times. John the Revelator clearly established that Jesus is the first and the last. John stated, as Jesus had revealed to him, “Saying I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.” (Revelation 1:11) The words, “Alpha and Omega”, are Greek words or letters meaning the same as their Hebrew counterparts, “Aleph and Tau”. Seven times in Genesis, chapter one, as the Scripture deals with creation the “Aleph and Tau” are found in the Hebrew text without being translated. Here is a literal rendering of one verse showing where the Aleph and Tau appear. Remember Alpha and Omega are the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet, while the Aleph and Tau are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Notice this verse, “In the beginning created God (Aleph and Tau) the Heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1, The Interlinear Bible) John clearly stated that the Word created all things and that same Word became flesh in Jesus Christ. Here, we see that “Word” as the Creator in the perfect picture of the creation story itself. This kind of Biblical perfection is found throughout Genesis and the whole Bible.
The Gospel in Genesis! In Genesis Chapter Five we have the Gospel message clearly presented. When the average person reads this chapter they are bored because it appears to be no more than the genealogies of the first ten generations of families. Let’s take a closer look by defining the name of each generation leader and then uniting those names in the text. Adam means man, the first man, and Seth, his son, means appointed. Seth’s son, Enos, means mortal; while his son, Cainan, means sorrow; and his son, Mahalaleel means the blessed of God. Jared was the son of Mahalaleel, which means shall come down; and Jared’s son, Enoch, means teaching. Enoch named his son Methusaleh because God had apparently warned that at his death the great flood would come. Methusaleh means his death shall bring. Lamech was the name of his son, whose name means despairing, clearly describing the condition of the world at that time. Lamech’s son, Noah, was named comfort and rest, because God was going to reveal Himself and comfort mankind.
When you see God’s revelation in this genealogy, the message is overwhelming. “Man, appointed to mortal sorrow, the great God shall come down, teaching, His death shall bring the despairing comfort and rest.” The divine revelations of the “Word” were never wasted. Each word and every verse was placed in Scripture to reveal a perfect manifestation of truth. No wonder Jesus quoted Moses by saying, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by ‘every’ word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:3) The Bible is a perfect whole.
The Torah or Pentateuch! The first five books of the Bible are called the Torah. It’s amazing to look at this significant word. To the Jews the Torah is the most sacred books of the Bible. Remember, Torah in English is spelled with five letters, but in the Hebrew language it consists of only four Hebrew characters. The four Hebrew letters spelling Torah were Resh (Reysh), Vau, Tau, and Hey. When they were written, each letter had an original meaning. The four letters mean the following: Resh – Head, Vaul – Nail, Tau – Cross, and He – Reveals.Every time a Jewish person names or writes the name of his sacred text, he is declaring that the Head of that text was nailed to a cross and revealed the mercy and truth of that sacred revelation.
The Torah Contains Incredible Mysteries! A recent article appeared in the Bible Review publication entitled, “Divine Authorship?” This article was a review of the work of Jewish scholars, Doran Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg, of the Jerusalem College of Technology and the Hebrew University. The title of their work, which was printed in the eminent Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society, was “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis.” These authors, who are mathematical statisticians, have discovered words encoded in the Hebrew text that cannot be accidental. Their work was from the Textus Receptus or Masoretic text. The author of this review, Jeffrey B. Satinover, explained the results as following:
“This in effect is what the researchers have found embedded in the Hebrew text of the Torah – a whole series of meaningful word-pairs in close proximity, something that they demonstrate cannot have happened by chance. These words they found in close proximity are not simply the words of the text (as would be the case in the analogy above of an unknown potential language). They were rather words composed of letters selected at various equal skip distances, for example, every second or third or fourth letter. It was as though “behind” the surface meaning of the Hebrew there was a second, hidden level of embedded meaning.” (“Divine Authorship?”, Bible Review, October 1995, p. 29) Mr. Satinover then explained how they used a combination of words related in life or history to show that the Biblical text revealed a prior consciousness of every human event.
I will let him describe it. “…the researchers…found the pair Zedekiah (a sixth century B.C.E. king of Judah), and Matanya, Zedekiah’s original name (see 2 Kings 24:17); and the pair Hanukkah (the Jewish festival that commemorates the re-dedication of the Temple after it was recaptured from the Assyrians in the second century B.C.E.) and Hasmoneans (the family name of the leaders of the Jewish forces that managed to wrest the Temple from the Assyrian monarch Antiochus IV Epiphanes).” Note that these names and events found encoded in the text of the Torah involved people who lived, and events that occurred, long after the Torah was composed, whether by a divine or human hand. “In their 1988 paper, the researchers selected, at random, 300 such Hebrew word-pairs with obviously related meanings, and looked for the words embedded in the text by treating the entire book of Genesis as a long cryptographic string. They would start at the beginning until they came to the first letter, then look to see if a second letter could be found two letters away. If so, they then looked for the third letter two letters away; if not, they stopped and searched for the next appearance of the first letter and repeated the process.”
“They continued until they found an occurrence of the entire word spelled out at every second letter. If not, they performed the same procedure looking at every third letter instead. “In this fashion they searched first every other letter, then every third, and so on (including reverse order). When they found the first instance (that is, at the minimum skip distance, and measured its proximity within the text-string to the first. They did this for all 300 word-pairs.” (Ibid, pp.30-31)
According to information in this review, the possibility of this happening by chance was less than 1 in 50 quadrillion. In fact, a public statement was offered by eminent scholars here in America as reported, “Following publication of this paper, a public statement was issued, signed by five mathematical scholars – two from Harvard, two from Hebrew University and one from Yale. ‘The present work,’ they said, ‘represents serious research carried out by serious investigators.’” (Ibid, p.31) Great Jewish scholars have contended that the Torah contains all knowledge. One such gentleman, Rabbi Gaon of the 18th century, stated, “All that was, is, and will be unto the end of time is included in the Torah…and not merely in a general sense, but including the details of every species and of each person individually, and the most minute details of everything that happened to him from the day of his birth until his death.” (Ibid.)
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, said it even plainer, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till Heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 5:17-19)
Revival is Absolutely Dependent on a Revival of the Scripture! The Holy Bible is the most incredible book in the world. It is literally a God-breathed book and is so powerful that it must be destroyed or diminished before the devil can accomplish one dark deed in his activities. The opposite is true if we want a revival in the church. There can be no victory or revival until the Word of God is returned to its rightful glory. All of our attention in this article so far has been in the First Testament. The Second or New Testament would be impossible without the first. When you grasp the absolute perfection of the thirty-seven books in this first portion of God’s Holy Word, then the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the New Testament message has even greater authority and meaning to you.
The Perfect Harmony of the Two Testaments! God chose Hebrew as the language of the First Testament and Greek as the language of the Second Testament. These two languages have tremendous similarities. There are identical numbers of characters (counting the one added to perfect each alphabet) in each language, and the two languages carry the exact same numerical values for the characters or letters. The only two languages that have this perfect identity and the exact numerical pattern are Hebrew and Greek. Remember, God distributed the languages Himself and carefully prepared these two vehicles for conveying His revelations.
First, let’s show the perfect harmony in these two books by looking at God’s fingerprints from Genesis to Revelation. The number thirty-seven has been called the fingerprint of God. Throughout the entire Bible this number and the multiple representatives identify the many expressions of the person of God. The number for “Jesus” in Greek is 888 or 37 x 24. While thirty-seven signifies the Word of God or His fingerprint, twenty-four is the number of priesthood. Jesus is the unity of both God and the priesthood, and the numerical value perfectly supports the same and unites the First and Second Testaments into one Holy Bible.
“In the beginning God,” the first four words of the Bible, is Brayshith Elohim in Hebrew with a multiple numerical value of 999 or 37 x 27. Bethlehem, the place of birth for the Son of God is mentioned thirty-seven times in the First Testament, but only eight times in the New Testament. Of course, God’s purpose for eight times in the Second Testament is because eight is the number of New Beginning, New Birth or the New Creation. Let me list a few expressions of the Lord Jesus and show the numerical values in multiples of thirty-seven.
2 Cor. 4:4 – Christ, who is the image of God = 37 x 105
2 Cor. 4:4 – Image of God = 37 x 37
2 Cor. 4:4 – God = 37 x 15
2 Thess. 2:1 – Lord = 37 x 37
Mark 12:29 – The Lord God is one Lord = 37 x 72
Col. 3:24 – The Lord Jesus Christ = 37 x 120
Rev. 22:20 – Lord Jesus = 37 x 33
Phil. 2:9 – And gave Him a name which is above every name = 37 x 108
2 Pet. 1:17 – This is My beloved Son = 37 x 111
Luke 20:13 – My beloved Son = 37 x 42
1 John 4:9 – God sent His only begotten Son into the world = 37 x 120
1 John 4:9 – His only begotten Son = 37 x 54
Gal. 2:20 – The Son of God = 37 x 66
John 10: 36 – I am the Son of God = 37 x 54
(A Scientific Approach to Biblical Mysteries, Dr. Robert W. Faid, pp. 28-29)
Dr. Robert Faid, a nuclear scientist and a consultant to nuclear power industries said, “As you can see, this theomatic number 37 seems to appear whenever God wants to point out something very special, and this happens throughout the Bible, both in the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New Testament. Could this be a mere coincidence? I’ll let you decide. I computed the probability of only the eighteen features of 37 we have examined. The probability of just these eighteen multiples of the number 37 appearing by chance is: 1 in 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.” (Ibid. p. 29) He further stated: “Even with our most powerful computers of today it would be utterly impossible to formulate one language whose alphabet could be used to write a single typewritten page containing the type of mathematical design we find in two languages and alphabets running through our entire Bible. The significance of this is awesome!” (Ibid. p.32)
The New Beginning in Jesus! In the section above I noted that thirty-seven is the fingerprint of God in the entire Bible. Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ the Son of man, was named thirty-seven times in the First Testament, but eight times in the Second Testament. Eight is the Biblical numeric of new beginning, a new era and a regeneration of all things. It was Noah, the eighth person, (2 Peter 2:5), who led eight individuals from the ark to begin the repopulation of the earth. Circumcision was the foreshadow of the new regeneration in Jesus Christ and was performed on the eighth day after birth.
The name Jesus divisible by thirty-seven (37 x 24 = 888), represents God’s fingerprint on the entire Bible, but is also divisible by eight (8 x 111 = 888) representing the new beginning of His sacrifice at Calvary. His resurrection was on the eighth day and now His bride, the church, worships Him on the eighth day. The eighth day is a confirmation of His covenant with the New Testament church and our covenant to glory in Jesus Christ and His cross alone.
Greek numbers are shown to absolutely harmonize with Hebrew numbers to prove the Bible is the infallible Word of God. Jesus is spelled IHEOYE in Greek. The following chart is represented from Messiah, a book by Grant R. Jeffreys, (page 79):
Numeric Value of Names of Jesus! JESUS = IHEOYE = 888 (I = 10, H = 8, E = 200, O = 70, Y = 400, E = 200, Jesus = 888) Other Names of Jesus, Christ = 1480 (8 x 185), Emmanuel = 25600 (8 x 3200), Lord = 800 (8 x 100), Messiah = 656 (8 x 85) Saviour = 1408 (8 x 176)
The Lord Jesus and His Resurrection! The Lord Jesus Christ was God’s Passover Lamb in perfect fulfillment of the Passover Feast held in Egypt on Nisan 14th. To the Egyptians it was Nisan 13th because the heathen calendar did not change until midnight, but the Jewish calendar changed at sundown (typically 6:00 pm). (This is the origination of Friday the 13th being an unholy day. To the Bible believer there is no such thing as luck or being unlucky.) The heathen’s Friday the 13th was the Jewish Friday the 14th. The next day began this Feast of Unleavened Bread, which lasts seven days. During these seven days of the feast of Unleavened Bread, a regular seventh day Sabbath occurred. On the day after the regular Jewish Sabbath they were to offer a “he” lamb as a Feast of the Firstfruits unto the Lord. Originally in Egypt, the dates were Passover, Nisan 14th; the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread was Nisan 15th and the regular Sabbath or the Eighty day was Nisan 17th. The Jewish multitudes, led by Moses, crossed the Red Sea on dry ground on Nisan 17th. As God gave them a new beginning, He also slew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea on that same day of Nisan 17th.
As we move forward to Jerusalem and the death of Jesus Christ, He was the perfect fulfillment to the very day. He was crucified on Nisan 14th and resurrected on Nisan 17th, the first day of the week or the eighth day by Jewish reckoning. Every jot and tittle of the prophets was fulfilled in His birth, life, death and resurrection. The two testaments became one book by this finished act of redemption. The Word of God is by this death signed in holy blood and covenanted to those who by faith receive His promises. Only God could have perfected the promised sacrifice of the kinsman Redeemer in this absolute fulfillment to the day.
The Easter (Ishtar) Confusion! An incredible documentation of Holy Scripture is found in the Book of Acts. Often critical reviews have used this Scripture to question the infallibility of the Received Text. Rather than create a question, it supports the precision of the Holy Spirit of truth. The Scripture says,“And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.” (Acts 12:4)
Some people argue that this was an error in translation. This word, Easter, they say, should have been translated Passover. If you will notice verse three (3), it says that Peter’s arrest was during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Passover occurs the day before the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins so that Peter’s arrest was after the Passover. Herod is said to have intended to slay him after Easter, which was a completely different celebration than Passover. It was a heathen event that would have been important to Herod and his court of Roman soldiers and leaders.
This pagan festival is appropriately described by Dr. Samuel C. Gipp, Th.D. He stated, “Easter, as we know it, comes from the ancient pagan festival of Astarte. Also known as Ishtar (pronounced ‘Easter’). This festival has always been held late in the month of April. It was, in its original form, a celebration of the earth ‘regenerating’ itself after the winter season. The festival involved a celebration of reproduction. For this reason the common symbols of Easter festivities were the rabbit (the same symbol as ‘Playboy’ magazine), and egg. Both are known for their reproductive abilities. At the center of attention was Astarte, the female deity. She is known in the Bible as the “queen of Heaven” (Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17-25). She is the mother of Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14) who was also her husband! These perverted rituals would take place at sunrise on Easter morning. (Ezekiel 8:13-16) From the references in Jeremiah and Ezekiel, we can see that the true Easter has never had any association with Jesus Christ.” (The Answer Book, Dr.Samuel C. Gipp, Th.D., pp.3-4) The Word of God stands untouched and undefiled after all the foray by her enemies.
Conclusion! Every individual that accepts the Holy Scripture as the infallible Word of God and actually submits his total person to its authority will be transformed by its powers. This Word is God-speech. It is God-breathed and God-preserved. The power of the Holy Spirit is shut up in its revelations and is unleashed every time you allow it to become the absolute authority in your life. When the God-called preacher man lives in this Book until his sermons reflect the oracles of God instead of the opinions of men, his preaching will be dynamic.
The laymen of our churches will be transformed when our preachers get back to the Book. Laymen and laywomen, don’t wait! If the preacher fails to act, you get into this Book, accepting its absolute message and revelation. God is no respecter of persons. Any man and/or woman that dares to believe and acts on this infallible revelation will be used of God to bring revival. Your life and family will be brought back to God and your community will see a display of truth. The only hope of the church in its search for meaning is the God-given revelation of Scripture. Jesus will not be revealed on church walls in esoteric emotions and flamboyant displays. He certainly does not manifest Himself in icons and idols. Isaiah said, “I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” (Isaiah 42:8) He is the Word and His Written Word is His language. If you refuse His Words from the Holy Book, He has no other method of speech. The Holy Spirit confirms His Word, but never replaces it.
Joseph Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org
How many times did Jesus say “one will be taken, and the other left”? Not everyone that says
“Lord,Lord” will go. We had better wake up, read God’s word and understand what is about to
take place. As we “walk curcumspectly, not as fools, but as wise” let us redeem the time! Those
who once preached the Rapture lived like they were looking and ready. Now, many are like the evil
servant that said, “My lord delayeth his coming,” and then began to act just like the world.
May our vessels be filled with the oil of His Spirit and our lamps trimmed and burning brightly.
Especially to Melvin & Richard – Thank you for fulfilling Prophecy!
2Pe 3:3 Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires.
2Pe 3:4 They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”
2Pe 3:5 They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of His command, and He brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.
2Pe 3:6 Then He used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood.
2Pe 3:7 And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.
“Things are going on just as they always have,” says the skeptic. “We’ve heard all the prophecy update tapes. We’ve read The Late Great Planet Earth. But where is this Second Coming everyone keeps talking about?”—little knowing that his very scoffing fulfills Bible prophecy.
The root of skepticism and cynicism lies in a desire to follow one’s flesh and fulfill one’s lust. A denial of the return of Jesus allows people to live however they want because it removes accountability to the God who made them and who will return for them.
If I may, just one more response: Karen, LOVED it!! Thank you for taking the time to encourage & edify us! And your last line was a keeper!!
Thanks Ed Wood, that does make sense. Certainly, we’ll find out soon enough!
And to you guys who think/teach/believe there is no rapture, well each to his own I suppose. I definitely cannot see anyone going anywhere when the trumpet sounds if one out & out claims that Scripture is incorrect!
I just do not *get* why certain comments are even allowed on here?? When they are directly contrary to the Word & to what Bro. Chambers is teaching??!! [his site, I mean] Makes zero sense. But you’re not going to stomp on our Blessed Hope ~ all the more reason we’re going up SOON!! You’re only fulfilling 2 Peter 3:3,4
And Scripture does say one is to be an overcomer! This means we’re never perfect as long as we’re in this flesh & in these bodies, but we at least do not set out to purposely sin agsinst Him. Our highest aim should be to please the Lord with our lives. I’d suggest people go back and reread the entire N.T. & pray for your eyes to be open. No one needs to be a foolish virgin or ignorant of the Scriptures.
Even so, COME Lord Jesus! Thank You Father, for telling us what to expect so we can know the signs and be ALERT BRIDES, waiting for Your Blessed Son’s return! We cannot wait to come Home to be forever with You! Amen! Reva (“RJ”)
Just got a magnetic strip sign for family car: Lists our prayer line-and says CHURCH IN THE AIR CHRIST IS THE WAY: even though I’m disabled and house confined’ I can still be a prayer warrier and blog to ‘get out the word to save souls before the ‘last Trumpet call.’ Whether that be in the next moment or sometime yet in the future time that is unknown to us; it seems so many believers are going through some terrible times right in our own familes and neighborhoods. its as if Satan has turned his ire on us first- he’s not dumb; he just doesn’t wnat us out their saving souls that he won’t have! I realize that in many ways I’ve been spared from what my family goes through daily having to ‘ go out into the world to work, shop and study. Often, when they encounter believers in their daily lives they are able to give support to each other in institutions that seem to be getting further from any moral or ethical principles.My family is at the top of my prayer list. Thanks for your ministry! Linda Joy Adams
How my dear man will a bible believing Christian miss the rapture??? The pre-rapture theory has all kinds of loop holds; you have stated one of them.
Yes, the rapture is comming. He who is an overcomer by the blood of the lamb. RJ
keep it uop. Dawn you go rirl. Richard, Melvin, if a man be ignorant….let him. I
won’t be here. AFTER THAT TRIBULATION FOR THE NON BELIEVERS. Melvin, it sounds like
you want a go back under the law. Well, if you want to go under the law, then
Christ is no effect to you.
Just yesterday a sister in Christ told me that she believed the church would be here to see the Antichrist revealed. Then the rapture would come. I told her that 2 Thessalonians has been written for our learning and admonition, and this passage says exactly the opposite of what she is saying. God says that His truth is being sent out to deliver us from all evil, the foremost of which is an evil heart of unbelief. He has told us to take heed that this type of heart not be found in one of us.
I am not sure what all we will have to endure as the Church before the rapture. But I do personally believe that in keeping with the words of Jesus spoken in John 14: He will come for us at a time when we have some idea that He would be coming. The signs of the times are only increasing in keeping with the words of God. Behold — the Judge stands at the door. Grudge not. This is the most visible sign I see in the church right now — the offenses are abounding, even in the godly, many-year marriages we are being tested. The devil seems to be causing mates to speak harshly, be quick-tempered, worldly-minded. The mate who is walking with God must be very careful to guard his/her own heart not to be offended. For the enemies to walking with God in all the ways of God will be those closest to us — those in our own families and in the church family. Why? Because we expect better of those who we know love us and who profess to love God. If we love God, we are to prove this by the love of the brethren. For if we have done it unto the least of these, HIS brethren, we have done it unto Him. If we backbite one another in our hearts and hold grudges against ANY man/woman/child — we must realize that this one area of the demonic realm is working to hinder us from being ready for our Lord Jesus.
I agree with Brother Chambers — I, too, have a burning desire to speak of the rapture, of the coming of the King. And I am celebrating it in my heart and praying always that I may be ready to pray, ready to share Jesus, ready to die to all embarrassments and rejections. I only want to speak God’s words to those who He has ordained to recieve and believe them. But I don’t know WHO these are. God does — and THEY will respond. But I don’t want to stand before my Lord and have Him tell me that I was afraid and loved my own life more than the life of His Son and His inheritance which is IN the saints.
When the Lord Jesus spoke to His disciples in John 14 that He was going away and was preparing a place for them, He was speaking what He knew they would understand and be able to make application to their personal faith. Please go online and find this tract shared by Friends of Israel. It is entitled: Behold! The Bridge Groom Comes! It was written by Dr. Renald Showers. This is the best tool I’ve found to help explain the principles Jesus was referring to. Please find it, read it, pray over His words and be READY! And then, be one who joins the company of those who are out there with their lamps burning bright, searching, preaching with all that is within you — THE KING IS COMING! THE KING IS COMING! THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND! Don’t get caught up in any sin, or you will not be caught up to meet the One you call Lord in the air! Don’t be deceived! God shall not be mocked. The religious who have not the Spirit of God will be more and more hateful because they are hate-filled. They hate denying their flesh. They will have nothing to do with it and wnat to shut up the Voice/Verses of God because they are casting off all restraints, they do not want to be restrained. They love the praises of men more than the praises of God.
I thank GOD for this brother’s uncompromising witness and His staying with the Words of the Lord. Very soon an alien gospel shall be declared, by even alien spirits — demonic entities that will be given great power to manifest as lying saviours, showing great lying signs and wonders. And I will NOT be here to see that. I will be returning IN JESUS NAME, I will be returning BEHIND the King of Kings and Lord of Lords to Armageddon, riding the white horse prepared for me and being mercifully dressed in the white, spotless clean garment of His Righteousness. This is my hope, this is my portion and I refuse to listen to any lie of the enemy of my soul the enemy of God — no matter how educated and how many verses it twists, lying against the truth.
If you have received the love of God and the love of His truth, the Holy Spirit will enable you to recieve, believe and embrace all truth. 2 Thess. says that many will not recieve the love of the truth. These at some point very soon will be given over by God to the demonic realm where they will never again be given a chance to receive repentance and the love of God’s truth. And they will then embrace the strong delusion — the alien gospel, the New Age Antichrist. This is jy personal conviction, my personal faith, and my personal preparation. And I shall not be moved from it though the gates of hell try and try and try. I ain’t got time to let the devil get me down.
MARANANTHA!
Note to RJ.
I, too, think it is remotely possible that a tiny remnant of those who come to believe in Jesus may survive the Tribulation but this is only an opinion. Pastor Joseph could very well be right and if this the case, there may be those who have managed not to take the beast’s mark and survived underground, but who are still not believers. This may very well be the situation also with those desperate Jewish defenders of Jerusalem as the Antichrist’s army prepares for the final assault. It seems to me that had they been marked, they would not be resisting.
There may be other similar pockets of resistance throughout the world – also not believers, but likewise not allies of the Antichrist. The children born to these groups in those times would be included in the population count for Millennium mortals as well.
But when Jesus does come along with the host of heaven and glorified saints, I think they’ll rapidly become believers!
Dear Pastor Chambers,
Please keep on talking about the Rapture ! Do it as much and as often as possible !
For everytime you do we can be more and more on fire for Christ’s return for us and at the same time you can keep irking the heck out of these dummies that say the Tribulation already started or that there will be no Rapture or 2nd coming at all ! Keep energizing the Saints and irking the dummies !
God bless you !
Bill
Amen Brother
Dear Pastor Chambers,
Yes when we see him we will be like him.
Psalm 105:4 seek the lord and his strength: seek his face evermore.
My heart is heavy because of the dreams that the Jewish folk had about pogroms and death.
Our prayers must also be for the Apple of our Lords Eye.
Years ago i dreamt that i lay upon a grassed mound, it was a warm summer day and the mound may me feel those who lay buried beneath me, i was near a death camp in Europe. Many dead Jews below cryed out and i was moved deeply by their suffering and the calling of the righteousness of the Messiah to avenge them. This dream has never left me with a dry face.
But this time our King is near…
Praise Jesus
jaimie
That _______every repentant soul will be martyred for their faith in the Great Tribulation. Jesus pray that God would keep us in the world. The 144,000 who also live threw the Great Tribulation. Your already late on your pretribulate rapture. The 7 year tribulation started Feast of Trumpets 2009. Fall of 2009 to the Fall of 2010 1 year. And were in Feb. of 2011 you can add another 5 months So why are you still here. Check out Daniel’s Timeline video at http://www.waytozion.org
Well done, Pastor Joseph.
This is one of the most concise and compact overview of the Rapture I’ve seen and should be required reading for every believer.
The Post-Rapture period may paradoxically start out very upbeat, what with a charismatic world leader who appears to have the answers to mankind’s most pressing problems including an operational (but only temporarily) Middle East Peace Treaty.
Probably the best news to most of the world is that all those “bigotted, intolerant Christians” will be out of the way.
But all too soon the big party will be over and it will soon become hell on Earth.
Amen, truly agree with what Dawn expressed. And I have a friend who just cannot figure out WHY people are “continuing on as NORMAL” with life — when she mentions the rapture to people, no one bats an eye… well, as I remind her, the Bible prophecied it’d be just like it is now when it is time for the rapture!!! When people are apathetic & ignorant to the times, this is the cue that Jesus is about to descend Himself from His throne to the clouds to raise us up to meet Him!
I do have a question though. While I think that MOST (nearly all) who become followers of Jesus during the Tribulation will be martyred, yet then *WHO*?? would populate the millenium during Jesus and our 1,000 year reign on earth – when Scripture is clear that babies will be born during that era, too (and a 100 year old will still be considered a “chiid”) Anyway, that’s something I wonder about. Would it stand to reason that a few (new converts) from the Tribulation would not be killed? Or maybe the new millenium’s population will come from the remnant of Jews who’re protected by the Lord during the Great Tribulation. satan and the antiChrist will not be able to touch THEM once they get to the rocks of their protection (which some think may be Petra)
There will be no Rapture and Jesus is not coming again.
Yes, I AM looking forward to our Lord’s return so much! I have warned others for hearers to be ready and I ask to be counted worthy to be in that number of Raptured saints.But, sadly, most are not listening. They think they still have “time”. Soon, Lord…..