The Gifts Are For Today and They Will BE 100% Essential for the Tribulation Time That Is Yet to Come (very soon)

 Peterism and Amillenialism, in whatever form that they come are heresies of the worst kind. The God of Israel who promised faithfulness to an ethnic people and a geographical land for a 1,000 generations is certainly not in the business of changing His mind.

To say that the gifts have somehow expired is to proclaim a lie and to exalt the written word above the Holy Spirit.

The pre-trib rapture is often taught alongside this cessationism and they do go hand in glove, but at least there are some who stay away from cessationism even while teaching the totally unbiblical pre-trib nonsense.

Messiah's community will be under severe persecution in the end times. They will need unusual discernment, as a gift of the Spirit. They will need prophecy to determine the proper direction. They will need supernatural hospitality, when it would be easier to just shut out the Jew and those fleeing the wrath of the anti-Christ.

Each of the gifts will be needed. There will be no more hiding people behind a book shelf, the technology that is out there at this time is scary in its accuracy and what it can reveal.  

We will be put in a place of 100% weakness where we rely 100% on the Spirit and the gifts of God. Maranatha!

The End of This Age is Approaching

 part of the proof of this is the rise in false teachers and false teaching. The pre-trib rapture teaching is a lie. The health and wealth prosperity gospel is a lie. The teaching that this is currently the reign of "Christ" and we are in the kingdom of God right now (preterism) is a lie and a ridiculous heresy. Replacement theology that teaches that Israel, Jerusalem and the ethnic Jewish people have been replaced by the "church" is a gross lie against the heart of the God who calls HIMSELF "the God of Israel" (Jehovah-Israel) around 60 times in the Bible. If we do not read and pray for understanding of the Book of Revelation and the God revealed in that book and Deuteronomy 32 and elsewhere we are going to be completely unprepared to help the Jew through the next Holocaust. Have you noticed our great leaders are led astray by "flattery" the Bible said they would be? Have you noticed a man from "Assyria" is rising up to a position of power from being a man in charge of only a few people? The Bible said that would happen. Have you noticed some nations are pretending to be friends of Israel until it becomes unpopular? the Bible said that would happen. Have you noticed the "west" is in a steep decline and could be easily decimated in the space of a couple days? The Bible said that too. Have you noticed the Middle East is the hub of all the news in the world and the world is divided based on those who will support Israel and those who won't? The Bible says that too? Wake up! Quit worshiping false gods who are only men and not even very good men at that.

The Stakes are Incredibly High

 Why so intense?

Why pushing so hard (from a place of rest and trust) ?

Why constantly telling your teens about the latter days and the end of this age?

Why so angry at false doctrines that encourage comfortable, rest-assured, you said a prayer everything is okay Christianity?

Why so opposed to the pre-trib rapture lie?

Why attempting to crush nationalism as an idol? 

Why always driving home the point that "Kingdom Now" and trying to take over the "7 Mountains" is a mis-guided gentile lie that invalidates hundreds of prophecy of the people and the land of Israel and therefore invalidates the God of Israel?

BECAUSE THE STAKES ARE SO HIGH!

MARANATHA!

Is There a One and One Half Coming of the Messiah?

 This disaster is being circulated on Facebook by Christians, "Just thinking of the future. Having studied the Bible throughout my life, in many different forms, it really does always come down to this. I have been hearing about the second coming of Christ and the events unfolding since I was a kid. So keep in mind that the anti christ comes after the rapture (2 Thessalonians 2) when believers who are alive will be caught up together with those who have already died in Christ before the Great Tribulation."  That is how it starts out and it is so far off the rails in that short series of sentences that I won't bother with the rest.  

This is the second chapter of 2nd Thessalonians.   " Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, ² that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. ³ Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. ⁵ Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? ⁶ And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. ⁸ Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; ⁹ that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, ¹⁰ and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. ¹¹ For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, ¹² in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

¹³ But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. ¹⁴ It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, ¹⁷ comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word."

Very clearly in verse 3 Paul is telling us there will be a falling away and a revealing of the anti Christ, and the anti christ in verse 8 is slain by the appearance of the coming of the Lord.  The Messiah came once and will come a 2nd time to slay the anti Christ and the Messiah's followers will meet Him in the air and return to the earth to establish His kingdom.  The high calling of the followers of the Messiah is to be as loving and self sacrificing as the crucified Lamb, demonstrating their love by a willingness to lay down their lives for others.  There is absolutely nothing in 2nd Thessalonians to make you think, the Messiah is coming back for a 1 and 1/2 coming that will "rescue His precious church" from trouble.  That lie only flies in this country, it does not fly in China, or Iran, or any country controlled by Islam or communism.   

The sad thing is most of the people re-posting this lie, did not take the time to read 2 Thessalonians 2.

The sad thing is most Christians choose to believe they will be whisked away before the tribulation and they are ripe for being a part of the great falling away, because they are putting their hope in something that is absolutely positively false, the pre-trib rapture of the "church".  

The sad thing is entire denominations teach this lie.

The sad thing is this generation cannot afford to get this wrong.