Midnight Approaches
9/20/08

THE STORMS ARE HERE

Anyone with an ounce of gray matter must know that there is something very wrong in our country right now. It’s in the air. You can feel it in the streets, feel it on the road, more and more as the days go by. Even in video stores the theme seems to be death, violence, destruction, witchcraft, and demons. All you have to do is look at the video covers…
 
This web site has been talking about these and many other issues and current trends for some time now. The sad part is almost no one really cares. They still believe that everything will be alright, or this is nothing we haven’t been through before, or there is nothing to worry about, or the indomitable American spirit will rise to the occasion and prevail… all the while immersed in the abject hubris of life.
 
…Even the No#1 jazz station in southern California advertises a Gay & Lesbian Church that celebrates love & marriage -- while forgetting what happened to Sodom & Gomorrah. Remember Lot’s wife when she looked back?
 
THE SPIRITUAL STORM
 
There will be a cleansing all right and it won’t be pretty. The only question is; what side of the dividing line will you be at? Jesus said “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life”. Since he is the Truth, then it goes to say that anything that does not agree to His truth; is a lie. That is totally regardless of the myriad church “doctrines” that inundate corporate Christianity. Most people say: “well, my church is different; we have the right doctrine, belief’s or “traditions” (Ad nauseam). I had a young couple knock on my door a couple weeks ago saying Jesus came back in 1948. I asked them then that must mean we’re in the Millennial Kingdom (Rev 20:4-6) right now,,, They never did give me a plausible answer…
 
Let me share with you something: almost no one wants to hear the truth. They want to stay in their corporate comfort zones where everything is warm & fuzzy. No wonder Jesus lashed out at the scribes & Pharisees by saying in Matt 15:7Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, 8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men”.  
 
They nailed “The Truth” to a cross.
 
Some things never change…
 
THE FINANCIAL STORM
 
Anyone see where the major Wall Street banks are dropping like flies? Does this kind of tell you something?? Point being – America will be judged. Period. And just like the bankers who are delaying the inevitable shell game Ponzi scheme; when the crash does come it will be a devastation like no other. This is exactly why Jesus said about the tower of Siloam - Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
 
See any similarities?
 
Did you catch the word “repent”? Any dictionary will say: to turn away from or change one’s mind (or opinion).
 
…Once you’re faced with the truth, what are you going to do with it? Will that person go and bury it in the ground or, go out and increase their Talents? Please don’t tell me that that person already does that in their church. Just like the people that come to your door with their numerous diametrically opposed doctrines; -- “a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump” and also Mark 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. (emphasis mine) This is your church/state symbiosis right here.
 
This means that a little false doctrine will work it’s way through the whole lump (or body of believers whether church or state). So if you happen to know someone who belongs to a government sponsored, state sanctioned, licensed, corporate church, you just might want to help them out while there is still a little time. Please don’t tell me – “where’s your love brother”? I just happen to love the Truth more. Do you think the Chinese Christians have it good? Or the African Christians who are slaughtered?? Their testimonies are horrific.
-- I guarantee you they are part of the 5th Seal souls that cry out from under the altar in Revelation 6:9.  
 
And least we forget – we have a large component of American Christians in their comfy surroundings who say they can’t wait to get raptured before the going gets rough (all the while with their preachers who can’t wait to get their hands on your money). Revelation 3:14 says it perfectly: And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
 
Let’s frame this another way:
 
1.      We live in modern day Egypt (you know – the pyramid/all seeing eye) This goes all the way back to the “Mystery Religions” of Babylon. You can also make the case where America is an extension of that “world system”.
2.      Egypt had a symbiotic relationship between church and state (just like we do now).
3.      God said “Let my people go”.
4.      The people painted their doorposts with the Blood of the Lamb.
5.      The people left Egypt.
6.      God judged Egypt.
7.      The people entered the desert en route to the promised land.
 
By the way, this will happen again. And no, none of them got raptured.
 
No surprise when John saw the woman (mystery Babylon) who rode the beast (world system) and wondered greatly (i.e. was totally amazed) at what the church/state had morphed into. See Rev 17.
 
Consider this:
 
Matthew 25
 
 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
 
The metaphors and symbolic language here is easy to understand:
 
·         Virgins represent the church (whether pure or impure).
·         Midnight represents in the middle of the night (when things get the darkest).
·         Oil represents the catalyst or conduit to light in order to see things when it is the darkest by means of lighting it.
·         The lamps represents the body or larger vessel which hold the oil which either had or had not the sufficient oil in it in order to see in the dark.
·         The foolish virgins (or church) said to the wise virgins “Give us of your oil; for our lamps have gone out”. This pretty much says it all right here.
·         They were admonished to go to them that sell and BUY their oil. This one verse speaks volumes. Buy means: 1. To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase. 2. To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade. In essence the word picture here is that a concerted effort was required on the part of the “buyer” to do something (take receipt) that a transaction was effected in order that the “owner” or person who took ownership of that article (in this case the oil that provided the light) would enable them to the “wisdom” in order to see in the darkness, in the middle of the night, waiting on the bridegroom (i.e. when He comes back for His church).  
 
Let’s go back to Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
 
The choice is yours…
 
CHOOSE WISELY.
 
Scott Sepanek
 
A Marine for God
TheRaptureCult.com
 
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