The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand
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ARE YOU READY
ARE YOU READY
Pastor Hope
From UGANDA
Tonight @ 6 Randy Neal
Inbar Lieberman (Picture)
She’s 25-years-old. She has been the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am since December 2022. She heard explosions early Shabbat morning, according to Walla News, among other accounts.
The kibbutz is on the Gaza border, not far from Sderot, so she’s heard lots of sounds, and she knows what she knows. She realized that the sounds were different than those heard during the usual rocket attacks on the kibbutz — located near Sderot and a stone’s throw from the Gaza Strip.
So over the objections of the higher-ups, who told her she was over-reacting, she unlocked the arms storage, gave guns to the kibbutz’ kitat konnenut (volunteer security team) and took charge.
She placed her people in specific places around the kibbutz. When the terrorists arrived, this was the kibbutz that was ready. Over the course of a vicious gun battle that lasted hours, the Hebrew press reported, the armed civilians killed more than twenty-five attackers; Inbal, herself, killed five of them.
According to the post above, it was Nir Am, where a 25 year old woman took charge, that was the only kibbutz in the area without casualties.
Off the Record presentation Palestinian reporter:
100% of their demands
Agree to give them 100% of Isreal
If Palestine laid down their arms there would be peace
IF Isreal laid down their arms there would be no Isreal
This isn’t about who’s land this is it’s spiritual
Who’s land is it:
Genesis 12 to your offspring
Genesis 17 and again in Genesis 22 God promised the land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Isreal)
WHEN I WAS IN ISREAL
39 And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”
40 But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”
“When Archeologist dig in Isreal and Jerusalem, they have Bible in one hand and a rock pick in the other”
Even the rocks cry out the existence of The one true God in Isreal
Since Abraham:
For thousand of years
The
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IMS
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Have been trying to destroy God’s chosen people
Security check point to fly into Isreal
I hate being too early to the airport
5 hours early (That’s my dad)
So everyone since the beginning of Isreal has been trying to get rid of the nation of Isreal:
Hitler came close eliminating 6 Million people in WW2
Why isn’t the entire world sympathizing with them?
This is largest attack on the Jews since the holocaust and we have American elected officials endorsing acts of terror publicly
Woman and children were specifically targeted, raped and killed
Babies beheaded (1620 babies aborted a day in America)
Elderly holocaust survivors murdered
Raz the guy in the picture I showed you last week, collecting DNA samples from houses to identify body parts of Human beings
And people in America are celebrating acts of straight unfathomable evil
Concert goers hunted down like animals, corralled into safe rooms to be rounded up like cattle to be shot
And people are rallying in Portland to protest for the liberation of Palestine
ON NPR none the less: “Research in the West Bank and Gaza Strip showed a dramatic surge in support for Hamas. In the poll, 53% or 1200 Palestinians surveyed said they believed Hamas is “most deserving or representing and leading the Palestinian people.””
For most people this looks like a war over a territory
A fight for a land and Holy sites
But we as Christians must understand what this truly is
Spiritual Warfare
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
The Death of the Nation of Isreal, to the all who oppose it means the end to a covenant made to them by the ONE true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Satan is so serious about destroying God’s people because he knows it would make God a God who couldn’t keep His promise
Thank God he isn’t done with HIs people
4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
People eyes are blinded by the Enemy and it’s our job to show them the truth!
What does this mean for us the Ekklesia or the Church?
How should we respond?
What does this look like for us?
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who love you.
This should stir and kindle our Faith
Are we in the Last days?
17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.
18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’
The last days are: the last days are between Pentecost and the second coming of Christ
So Technically yes
Are we close?
21 “Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; 22 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.
In May 12th 1948 Isreal officially became a state:
Gathering from all over the Earth back to Jerusalem
Persia is modern day Iran
Who we as a nation gave 6 Billion dollars too
In Ezekiel 38 it talks about Gog of the land of Magog
Arguably present day Russia (There’s a case for it)
88 reason Jesus is coming back in 1988
Y2K
Jesus didn’t even know the time
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.
26 “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.
27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
29 “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. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
You also be ready!
Check the tides!
NO one knows the day or the hour but all this stuff is pretty interesting!
What I ascribe to is that Jesus is coming back eventually for a spotless bride
Overlap of the AGES?
Band
Jesus is coming like a thief in the night
13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Are you ready?
Are your friends ready?
This isn’t a time to be fearful it’s a time to be spiritually prepared
1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord;
Make His paths straight.’ ”
4 Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”