How close are we to the rapture and tribulation period?

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A Time Frame to Consider.
I am not setting any dates.

11-26-2013

Three months ago Kerry gave the Israeli and Palestinian peace talks 9 months to be finished – one way or the other. Today we hear that Obama has given Iran 6 months to comply with his conditions.

I find it interesting that both of the dates above come due at the same time. Around April or May 2014. Then it occurred to me. This is the same time of the blood red moons and solar eclipses we are hearing about. Just like the ones that occurred in the past and each time something really big happened in Israel. The first of these four Blood Red Moons is to occur on Passover (Pessah) 2014 and through October (Sukkot) 2015. Yeshua told us that there would be signs in the sky in the end times, that the sun would be darkened and the moon would turn blood red. Acts 2:19-21 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

It could well be that the above is simply a coincidence, but I have learned after over 40 years of walking with God, that there are no coincidences when it comes to the Lord and His Word. I doubt that there is anyone reading this who doesn’t believe something big is about to happen in this world that directly has to do with God’s Prophetic Word.

Over the years I have met, and been friends with, some of the greatest Bible teachers of our time and I still haven’t met any man or woman who has a 100% complete understanding of God’s prophecies. It seems He gives us parts and pieces as we struggle to know His perfect Will for our lives. You see, we are all just parts of the Body of Yeshua and not any one of us knows it all. In fact few know as much as they think they do. OK maybe I didn’t have to say that, but I did anyway.

For example; God has given me an understanding of what He has called me to do. At least I know as much about it as He would allow me to know at this time. As we travel in obedience to please God, doors of new understanding open to us. We are justified by Faith and we mature by Faith. And then we learn that it is God who gives us the gift of Faith –that is supernatural -moving us forward with God in confidence of His will for our lives. It is then we hopefully become usable vessels for His purposes, not ours.

Many are stopped along the way by self-righteousness, Spiritual Pride, in Religion, and in self improvement courses. But somehow God has His way and His Will gets done with or with out our help. I guess what I am saying is; don’t allow yourself to get in God’s way, believing yourself to be doing Him a favor. He uses us in spite of ourselves not because of ourselves.

Forgive me. I didn’t mean to go off preaching like that. But you see, as for the dates mentioned above, I get a witness that something really big is going to happen. We know that in the US Obama is bringing down the constitution and doing all he can to destroy your liberties and freedoms. He is purging the military of its best generals and demoralizing it with homosexuality. And doing much the same to the general public as well. God told us it would be like this in the end, so it should come as no surprise to any of us. For as we look around we can see that the world we grew up in no longer exists. The Devil has a full blown revival underway, and the attack on Christianity is in full force world-wide. In Egypt, Syria and throughout Africa Christians are being murdered by the thousands with hardly a whisper from the rest of the world.

Here in Israel we hear daily about the 6 months now given Iran, without them giving up their ability to have a nuclear bomb. Contrary to what Obama and Kerry say, Iran says they have not given up that right and they continue to say they will wipe Israel off the map.

So it seems, given the timetable above, we have 6 months, but I wouldn’t depend on that either, for with Obama everything is deception and distraction, divide and conquer. He is a liar, evil, and a Muslim who does anything he can to assist Islamic terrorists around the world.

I have rambled on and on and the thought has come to me not to send this out – but I know where that thought comes from. My prayer is that you may understand the importance of the time you now find yourself living in. Submit yourself to God. Accepting Yeshua fully into your heart and allow Him to be the Messiah of your life. I also pray that you understand the importance to God of this ministry that He has made you a part of.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers. Pray for this ministry and your part in it.

Shalom, Jerry Golden

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Excellent video, Arlene! Gets me excited that Jesus REALLY IS COMING SOON!!!!!

Here is the transcript:

Transcript (*)


How close are we to the rapture and tribulation period?


>>Ankerberg: We’ve all gone through Christmas and just before Christmas, we had Thanksgiving
and when we had Thanksgiving, we knew that that meant in the calendar that Christmas
was not far away. If you backtrack on prophecy, and you say these events are going to take
place in the Tribulation and you can see signs of those events and judgments coming about
in the Tribulation and we can see them now, and the Rapture has not occurred, that would
mean that the rapture has got to be even closer. What are the parallels, what are world events
telling you right now about how close we are to the time of the Rapture and then the Tribulation?
First of all, the revelation of Christ, the return of Christ back to the earth would be
Christmas; the rapture of the Church would be Thanksgiving. Now, we can see the signs
for Christmas, even before Christmas, leading up to the many weeks and even months before
Christmas, we saw all the Christmas lights, we heard the Christmas songs, everything was
giving us indication that Christmas was coming. Jesus Christ was asked in the Olivet discourse,
give us some signs of Your Second Coming. Now, Matthew 24, when He responds to those
questions from His disciples, is not talking about the rapture of the Church; that was
not in His mind at that time. He’s talking about the Second Coming. He’s talking about,
in Matthew 24, Olivet discourse, He’s talking about deceptions: signs, wonders and miracles.

In Matthew 24, verses 4, 5. 11 and 24, He uses the word deception in all those verses
four times. He says deception, and the way of communicating deception through, signs,
wonders and miracles, which we see a proliferation of today here on this earth, would be the
first sign of how it’s going to be before He returns.

Then He talked about wars and rumors of wars, and nation against nation, kingdom against
kingdom, and people against people. He said that that would be happening before He comes
back. And it is so evident in our world that wars and rumors of war—look at the continent
of Africa, it’s almost aflame at war; you go into the Middle East, and there in the
Gaza Strip, Fatah and Hamas, the two factions in the Palestinians, they are killing each
other. There’s going to be, I believe, a civil war in Israel, Jew against Jew, because
there’s Jews living in the area of Judea and Samaria who the Israeli government want
to evacuate out, and they say, we’re not coming out. You look at Afghanistan, you look
at Iraq, you look at Iran, you look at all that’s going on there in our world: wars
and rumors of wars. Then He talked about there would be famine,
people would starve to death. He talked about there would be earthquakes in diverse places.

He talked about those things that would happen. Basically, Matthew 24 is a preview of the
book of Revelation. And what I’m just giving you a list of, are those sealed judgments
that happen after the rapture of the Church. He finishes the Olivet discourse with Matthew
24:32-34. He says learn the parable of the fig tree. That has nothing to do with the
State of Israel, He’s on the Mount of Olives and there’s a fig tree right beside Him,
it’s in the springtime and the leaves are starting to pop up all around. He says, “Learn
the parable of the fig tree. You see the leaves on that limb there? That indicates that summer’s
almost here. So, likewise, when you see all of these things;” all of what things? The
things we just talked about: wars and rumors of wars, there’s deception, famine, earthquakes
in diverse places, people died. When we see those things, know that it is near. What’s
near? Well, they’d asked Him, when are you coming
back; not the rapture, when are you coming back, the second coming? He said, “I say
to you, this generation shall not pass away until these things are fulfilled and I return.”
But who is He talking about? Not the people He was talking to on the Mount of Olives,
He’s talking to a generation of people alive in this tribulation period, that generation
of people, they will see these things happening, they will know His second coming is close.

But wait a minute, the rapture’s got to happen before that, and we as Christians are
standing outside of the tribulation period, before the rapture of the Church, who are
seeing some of those things happening. May I suggest that that which will give evidence
of the return of Jesus Christ, we can see the stage being set for those events to happen.

I would suggest that we’re living in that generation that sees the rapture of the Church,
and from the heavenlies, we see tribulation unfold and then we return back to the earth
with Jesus Christ.

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Isaiah 26:19-21:

But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead. 20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. 21 See, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.