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Greetings Watchers!
Here is my commentary on this letter from a Watcher.
I hope as always that you find my thoughts helpful and meaningful in your life.
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Brother Sal
I am surprised at the lack of response from asleep Christians! This teaching gives me confidence, knowledge and the power to witness!!! amen.
I spent 7.5 years in a church that denied the rapture totally - all doom & gloom, and I must admit it really drove me down to zero - discouraging. That church has almost dried up totally now.
Thank you for your awesome work over the years and your interpretation of Daniel & Revelations etc.
I am now a Watcher and Warner and Gideon's Army Enlister!!!
Praise God. Come Lord Jesus. It's really put my life in focus in regards to temporal & material things. It's encouraging to understand the fullness of God's revelation for Israel & the Church - the big picture. I thank you for the stuff on The Woman (Israel) and the Man Child (the 144,000) and the 2 witnesses, etc - very good. Also I agree with your Babylon stuff and the Whore etc. Good to see you balanced (with the Org & the people who must come out of her etc...)
God Bless. C. M.
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Hi C!
Thank you for the note and comments. I truly appreciate them.
I'm so glad to hear that you are already evangelizing the message. I very well know how asleep the world is to understanding the end times as it really is. I have been spreading this word on the Internet for 5.5 years and I have hardly made a dent. I fear that the world is too deeply steeped in tradition to ever see it. I think that the rapture is hardly going to be noticeable. Those going will probably fit in a phone booth!
As you can see, it takes some study and some watching of the scene to grasp the true meaning of the end times and the seriousness of it. It is no longer a time in the distant future, it is speeding toward the next landmark which ushers in the final days of the Abraham covenant, and it's so close now that one is able to feel the momentum of it, which to me is like watching an oncoming car coming from a long distance and then suddenly it's upon you, and then the rush of wind as it goes by. That's the kind of perception I have of the world as it marches in time toward that landmark event, which is the dead rising in Jerusalem on the feast of First Fruits.
With the majority of the worlds Christians as unconcerned as they are with the end times, you can readily see how the expression, “like a thief in the night” is so appropriate at this time, as the end time events are happening so rapidly that it hard to keep up with them.
That’s why the watch must focus on the landmark event, the rising of the dead in Jerusalem on the feast of First Fruits.
This event was part of the First Fruit events that fulfilled the feast of First Fruits after the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah. The celebration of First Fruits being the promise of the full harvest yet to come.
And Paul taught that the feasts of the Jews are shadows of things to come for the Church, but the substance casting that shadow was the Messiah.
The Messiah is not just the person of Jesus, Messiah represents a role that is defined in the prophecy of Jonah, as Jesus said that the only sign of the Messiah He would give to an adulteress generation was the sign of Jonah.
So, what we have at the resurrection of Jesus is the fulfillment of the feast of First Fruits, the promise of the full harvest yet to come, by Jesus, the suffering servant Messiah of the first coming, and the raising of the captives of death, who were set free by Jesus’ resurrection, many of whom appear in the flesh to many in Jerusalem, as did Jesus, for the next 40 days.
All of this is in the shadow of the feast of First Fruits that is cast into the future to be realized by the Church, as the substitutes who fulfills God’s word, because the Jews rejected it.
The promise of the full harvest yet to come was a promise to the Jews fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus, their Messiah. The dead that rose preached in Jerusalem the same message as Jesus did, to those that saw them. And that message was preached for forty days.
Here is Jesus fulfilling the sign of Jonah. Having conquered death, and possessing the keys to the grave, His act sets free from death the captives that accepted His sacrifice, and exposed many of them to carry a message to the Jews for forty days about their salvation.
These events were real, happening in recorded time, but the recipient of their purpose rejected their meaning, forcing them to be cast into the future as a shadow to be received by the substitutes, who are those new creatures in Christ, in a time when the events of the prophecy of Daniel are occurring on the stage of history.
The promise of the feast of First Fruits that is cast to us is the promise of the full harvest, yet to come. Those chosen to be the token of that promise were seen by many in Jerusalem for forty days and were captive to Jesus as on that fortieth day he ascended to heaven, as Psalm 68:18 says it, and, “Thou hast ascended on high, thou has led captivity captive . . .”, and as Paul says it in Ephesians 4:8, “. . . When he ascended on high, He led a multitude of captives . . .”.
The depiction being that forty days after Jesus rose on First Fruits he ascended to heaven and took with him those captives that his resurrection had set free. That’s part of the shadow of the Messiah that is within the shadow of the feast of First Fruits that is cast to us, the Church, to be received during the time that the events of Daniel’s prophecy are seen occurring on the stage of history.
That is the exact picture of the Rapture of the Church and when it’s to occur! The “set time” on God’s calendar for His promises to the substitutes to come to pass.
And then, on Pentecost, which is the final day of First Fruits, where a loaf of bread is the offering symbolizing the completed product of the Spring feasts, Jesus, the completed Messiah fulfills the feast as He is offered to the Jews for the very first time by the anointed Apostles as the Messiah they had been awaiting throughout the history of their prophecies.
Jesus had returned back to His divinity on ascension day, just ten days before, completing His role as Messiah, and as we see in scripture, when He ascended on high, he took with him the multitude of captives that had been set free from death by his resurrection.
Now that we are in the time when the events of Daniel are easily and clearly seen occurring on the stage of history, the time set by God before the foundation of the world for the Church to receive the promise of resurrection and rapture is upon us, and we are commanded by Paul in his teaching to the Thessalonians to Watch for the signs, and then to warn those who are asleep so we can all rejoice together, as on that very day, we are transformed, in the twinkling of an eye, into the world of our spiritual existence to be with our Lord forever. The meaning of our lives on earth fulfilled.
Then, with that promise fulfilled, God returns to complete His promise to the Jews, as Jesus will return to be the Messiah of the second coming, as now God comes in vengeance to drive them back to Him through affliction and to save a remnant of them to honor His promise to Abraham of their inheritance of the Kingdom of God on earth.
Thus the covenant with the chosen people enters the time of the Millennial reign of Christ in God’s Kingdom on earth. They have a thousand years to go!
But to bring us back into our present time, and the milestone event that we await, the raising of the dead that will be seen in Jerusalem.
Many people write and tell me that when that happens, most of the world will repent. But there are a couple of things that they forget. First, most of the world won’t know about what it means, and secondly, it will be presented to the world through the media as a lunatic cult on the fringe of “New age Judaism”, preaching their warning in the streets, saying, “Wake up!, we have risen from the dead to bring you a message from God to repent, turn away from the law and turn toward Jesus, your Messiah, or suffer the wrath of God in forty days!”
The media will have a field day with that! Everyone will be laughing and the Leno show will have the cleverest of the jokes made about it in this country to be sure.
But the point is that the world is in the same place now as it was in the time of Christ’s first coming. Far away from the way of life that made them understand the meaning of their covenant. Traditionalized into a religion dedicated to its own agenda of how to spread their ever changing word of God to meet the needs of their flocks as they visualized them.
For that reason they missed the Messiah when He was among them. The result will not be different at this coming.
All of you are finding what I have found over the past five years. People are so disinterested because they have these traditional beliefs like, you can’t know the day or the hour, so why be worried about it.
All past date setters have been wrong, so why listen to date setters?
The excuses for not wanting to hear about the end times are endless. But, there is a growing group of people who are looking for answers to the questions that are brought about by the events of these times, and as time passes, and more begin to get the answers they seek, this message about the awareness of the end times and it’s joy will become as widespread as Harry Potter’s adventures!
Hope that helps.
God bless.
Brother Sal
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Humbly,
Your Brother in Christ
Brother Sal