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.
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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