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Matthew 24, The Study of End Times Part 18 - The Abomination Desolation

The Abomination of Desolation.

Matthew 24, The Study of End Times Part 17- The Voice of a Trumpet

For many years, I was told as a believer we would hear the Trumpet Sound, or the Voice of the Trumpet to be gathered up with the Lord. Matthew 24:31 "And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens to their ends."
What I never considered was that the Voice of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself was as a Trumpet.  Revelation 1:10  I came to be in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last; also, What you see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies of Asia: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. 12 And I turned to see the voice which spoke with me. 13 And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, having been clothed to the feet, and having been girded with a golden girdle at the breasts.  
 I also never considered that this voice would have the power to gather a people out of the earth, earth mindedness, earth nature, earth man, without actually physically leaving the earth.  But it does.  Hearing Him gathers our hearts and minds to Him to SEE HIM.  This is not physical sight.  This is what Paul declares in Galatians 1, when he says that he was separated from his mother’s womb for GOD TO REVEAL HIS SON IN HIM.  As Saul of Tarus,  he heard a voice and saw the LIGHT and was changed in the moment and twinkling of an eye to Paul the Apostle.
 Now this voice began to be heard through Paul.  Christ was declared through Apostle Paul.  The same was with the earlier Apostles.  Christ sent forth His messenger’s declaring with A VOICE, the Message of Jesus Christ.  This literally gathered Jewish people in that day before the Romans destroyed Jerusalem unto Christ.  I believe if we can hear it the elect were gathered because the Trumpet sounded through the Apostles and Disciples after Jesus’ resurrection.  I believe when Jesus walked through the earth as the man from Galilea the Voice was sounding in the earth, the Voice of the Trump of God.  This Voice has the power to bring those that hear out of death to LIFE.  Jesus said of Himself that He had come that we may have life.  Then He said again of Himself that He is the Resurrection and the Life. 
 I believe this Voice will bring us to the Resurrection and the Life.  Glory to God!
 

Matthew 24, The Study of End Times Part 16 - He Shall Gather His Elect

Mat 24:31 “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” 
Matthew 24:31 “and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.” 
Above are two different translations of Matthew 24:31 the King James Version and the Young's Literal Version.  I want us to key into the sound of the trumpet.  Where do you see in the scripture the trumpet and the gathering of the elect.  Well one place would be Mt. Sinai when Israel was gathered to the Mount, and gathered to God who came down on the Mount and gave the law and the instructions of the Temple.
In the New Testament we find the voice of the trumpet in Revelation Chapter 1.  John here's a voice as a trumpet and he turns to see the voice.  This trumpet voice is the voice of the Son of God that John here's.  I believe the messengers who are sounding the trumpet are the Apostles, and the elect were all those gathered unto Christ in Jerusalem before its destruction in 70 AD.  They went through the land sounding the trumpet, declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then the end of the Old Covenant that had ended at the Cross was manifested on the earth in God taking it away.  Glory to God.
I believe we are gathered unto Christ in this same voice today.  Gathered out of nations unto the Lord Himself to be His Body.  We like John are to turn and see this VOICE.  This seeing is Jesus Christ being revealed in you by the Holy Spirit of God.  "He shall take of mine and show it unto you."

Matthew 24, The Study of End Times Part 15 - The Abiding Words of Christ

Many Believers do not understand the power of Jesus' words in Matthew 24.  "heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."  His words are in force today, and eternally in the earth.  They do not pass.  His words are the words of the everlasting good news.  "Whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."  Whoever believes in Him, out of his belly flows living water.
These words abide.  They are present.  Anyone who comes to Jesus and believes that He is the savior is saved, and the greatness of their salvation is ready to unfold.  Christ Himself is the salvation we receive.  Jesus Christ Himself is ready to unfold or be revealed that we see, know and life in that of Him.
This is what has to penetrate our hearts and minds.  We have received the Lord Jesus Christ.  He in His fullness, completed work, lives in us.  We are on the adventure of our lives to know this One who is in our hearts.  That our minds, hearts, and purpose be filled with Him.  Truly, this is joy that will runover.  Glory to God!

Matthew 24, The Study of End Times Part 14 - My Words Abide Forever

In the Book of Revelation there is an angel flying through Heaven, having the everlasting gospel, Revelation 14:6.  Jesus declared that heaven and earth would pass away, but his word would not.  His words are the everlasting gospel.  He is the everlasting good news.  There is no end for what Jesus has done.  Isaiah prophesied of him in Isaiah 9, “that of the increase of His government there shall be no end.”
This is what Jesus brough into reality.  The day we are living in, when people could come up to the mountain of the Lord and take of His word freely.  Where people could be cleansed of His washing.  Where people could live in His life.  This is the everlasting good news.  Glory to God!!!

Take Eat, This is My Body

Take Eat, This Is My Body
 
Matthew 26:26 “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 27And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” 
This is the tenth part of a series that will be coming to YouTube and Podbean, The Covenant of God in Christ.  I believe this is a very important lesson and I am sharing it with the Church.  It is dealing with Eating His Flesh and Drinking His Blood.  What does it mean to eat His flesh and drink His Blood?  Jesus said if we do not eat His flesh and drink His blood, we have no life in us?  This lesson serves to begin to define these statements out of John 6 and Luke 22.
Consider John 1, that the Apostle John writes the Word was made flesh.  In verse 1 John defines the WORD as God.  This Word is LOGOS in the Greek and embodies the thought and intent of what was spoken.  I believe God spoke throughout the Old Covenant in various ways, as stated in Hebrews 1.  In this speaking was the thought and intent of THE WORD.  To illustrate this, we see a Covenant made that is put in force through the blood of an offering or offerings.  The intent and purpose of this is only found when the Person of Christ, THE WORD, comes and is made flesh and offers Himself for the Sin of the World.  He fulfills and sums up the offerings that are made in the first covenant and brings forth in Himself the offering of the New Covenant. 
Also, when this is instituted with Moses at Mount Sinai a Word is given.  This is the word of the Old Covenant sealed with blood.  Jesus in like manner sets forth the words of the New Covenant as He speaks throughout the Gospel and brings them into force in His death, burial, and resurrection.  In fact, the words of the New Covenant are defined and known in THE WORD Himself.   Jesus Christ Himself is the Word of the New Covenant.  He declares that the words He spoke were Spirit and Life.  I believe these words He spoke, fore example, “You are clean through the word I have spoken,” takes life in His divine presence by the Spirit of God.  We come to know we are clean through Him as we know Him and see we are washed by the water of HIS WORD from the old man where we were filth, and we are renewed in His Life in the New Man where there is no filth or condemnation. 
As we hear this Word, you are clean through the words he spoke, we begin to believe and see the cleansing of Christ.  This is powerful to me.  A church with no spot or wrinkle being cleansed by the Water of Life.  Glory to God. 

Matthew 24, The Study of End Times Part 13 - Heaven And Earth

When Jesus makes the statement, "Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall abide forever," what is He speaking of?  Is it the literal Heaven and Earth?  Many believe the literal, physical earth will pass away, and new literal physical earth shall come.
 
However, if we look at the scripture when Jesus makes the statement, "Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall abide forever," what is He speaking of?  Is it the literal Heaven and Earth?  Many believe the literal, physical earth will pass away, and a new literal physical earth shall come. However, if we look at the scripture, there may be another answer.  
 
Heaven is declared in the scripture as God’s throne.  Does that just mean, God’s throne on a universal scale?  I don’t think so.  God’s throne or place of rule was established by the Law in Jerusalem, in the Temple.  God dwelt in the Temple and the place of His feet was Jerusalem.  I believe this is scripturally Heaven and Earth.  The Bible declares in multiple place that God was enthroned between the Cherubim.  The Cherubim were angelic figures over the Mercy Seat.  The throne is a seat of rule and judgement. That seat was Israel’s rule and Judgement.  There they found mercy for the sins. 
 
Simply put, no longer do we come to the Old Testament Temple.  No longer do we have a High Priest who goes into the Temple in physical Jerusalem and makes an offering for the sins of the People.  That passed away.  The one eternal, ever abiding sacrifice came and is continuously applied by the Holy Spirit of God.  Jesus became the fulfillment of the Old Covenant’s ritualist offerings and temple.  If we can hear it this is New Jerusalem.  A people united to the one ever abiding sacrifice and Person of God Himself, all brought together in Jesus Christ.  The Old Earth (Jerusalem) is gone, the new is established by the Spirit of the Lord in the Person of Jesus Christ.  Glory to God!!!
 

Matthew 24, The Study of End Times Part 12 - Heaven And Earth Shall Pass Away

What does Jesus mean when He says Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall not, Matthew 24:35?  In my early years, walking with the Lord, I would have believed or understood this to mean some day the literal Heaven and Earth will pass and a new one will be established.  Something to that effect.  However, if that is what is true to this statement, does it mean the physical heavens or the ones our loved ones have gone to when they die?  I believe we can look at the scripture and find the truth and significance of what Jesus said.
In Isaiah, it is written that God said, “66:1 Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?”  By studying the scripture, we could see that God was enthroned in Jerusalem in the Temple between the Cherubim, Isaiah 37:16, which was in the Holy of Holies.  Exodus 25:21 “And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. 22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.” Ezekiel 43:7 “And he said unto me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;”
The Temple in Jerusalem was the place of God’s rest.  Here was where He was enthroned.  And He ruled Jerusalem according to the words of the Old Covenant.  I believe with all my heart that this was what Jesus was talking about.  Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my Words shall not pass away.  We no longer approach God in that Old Covenant Temple or relationship.  We approach God through Jesus Christ and His Living Words.  We come to God through and In Him.  This is the place of worship (temple), we come to.  His Words abide forever.  Glory to God!!