Tap-tap-tap! Pffff testing! Check?……. Is this thing on?
Cricket, cricket cricket.
Hmmm. It’s awfully quiet out there. Listen, I know it seems bad. “Where is the promise of His appearing?” Do you find yourself wondering? It seems that everyone I hear from, everyone I talk to, has difficulties they are dealing with. Isn’t it crazy how the world keeps turning on its axis when at the same time, nothing is okay? I am not speaking to “just anybody” here, but to the Body of Christ. Do you lay your weary head on the pillow each night and ask; “God, how much longer?”. I’ll be honest with you, it’s getting harder and harder for me as I continue as a watchman, and see stories that grow more despicable each week. So much so that I have refused to carry some of the accounts that other, similar blogs are continuing to carry, because it’s just reprobate. The Bible says it is a sin even to bring some things to mind. Little Muslim girls married off to old Muslim men to pay off parent’s debts. Most of what came out in the Gosnell Trial, the exponentially worsening bullying on the part of the sodomite agenda. And Obama’s unbelievable arrogance. Today I read about a baby that was taken from the parents by CPS because they dared to request a second opinion about a heart procedure. Eric Holder is saying that American parents do not have a right to home school their kids, while schools are acting more and more like they own your kids, and already they are forcing kids into very uncomfortable exposure to gay propaganda such as assigning girls to “lesbian kiss” or elementary school kids forced to watch graphic video “cartoons” about things that frankly even adults have no business viewing. It is getting dark. Real, real dark in this world.
That is to be expected just before the Son rises and bursts through the clouds!
He is coming for those who are watching and waiting. He is never early or late. He’ll be here. Could be, this very night.
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Don’t let anyone or anything steal your blessed hope. If you haven’t viewed Terry James’ interview with Gary Stearman, or read his book HeavenVision, I think you’ll be blessed if you go watch that interview now. I believe that Terry James was given this vision because of his dedication as a watchman, that he and all of us who are watching, would be encouraged to finish the race. Don’t give up. We’re in the home stretch.
Serve Him in the Waiting 
“Falling up!” I never thought of the Rapture that way. I really like that…..and…..since time will be no more, my heart tells me we shall enjoy the whole experience…..while we behold HIM.
Remember Stephen, as he was being stoned to death, cried out, “I see Jesus!”
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Yep. Too much. We need to know, but we don’t need to know in excruciating detail and in full color.
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Thanks for this…it was a blessing. Really, I mean it. I think I felt my heart strengthening as I listened. I think I’ll listen again. God bless you.
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Oh, I do know what you mean. Sometimes I just have to hear it. I lay in bed at night as I go to sleep and imagine what it would be like to be awakened by that sound. I have been through 2 minor earthquakes, and there is this millisecond of time when you know you hear and feel something but it isn’t registering just yet what it is. Especially here in VA where we don’t get a lot of Earthquakes. I imagine hearing that sound of the shofar and wondering “is that what I think it is?” The scripture says “we shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye” but does that mean the whole event of the rapture will happen that quickly? I kinda hope to get to enjoy the ascension, lol. I imagine it will feel like falling, only up! We will know soon! Praise God.
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I wanted to add that the thing you said that I needed to hear was that everyone you talk to is having difficulty. I was puzzled by the fact that everyone I know seems to be in unusual trials. Then I heard both you and Pastor Steve from Harvest Bible Chapel in Reno, say the same thing. He said every pastor he knows is experiencing unusually bad things.
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Mainly it is every Christian who is striving to live holy. 2 Tim 3:2 says all who live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. I think there is persecution that comes from the spiritual realm, as well as persecution from those on Earth who are “of their father the devil”(which is also from the spiritual realm, only by proxy) and so that is one reason I just sort of laugh at people who say berate those of us who believe in a pre-tribulation rapture as thinking we are “above” being persecuted and why should we think we’ll escape when many were martyred. I want to say, “speak for yourself!”.
As the Lord tarries, I believe there will be more persecution/discrimination in America and the world against anyone who believes the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, and who upholds its Truths. I further expect that the persecution of the true church will be mostly at the hands of the false (practicing a form of Godliness, denying the power thereof) church. Look at how the “church” is making an uproar over Greg Lauri officiating over the National Day of Prayer for saying that Homosexuality is a sin! By the grace of God I once faced down a home intruder, and by that same Grace, I pray I will stand in Holy Spirit courage in that day, should it come. I have to admit, I do like the posts Terry James has been making on his new blog of late, on why he does not believe American Christians necessarily must face that persecution before the rapture. http://terryjamesprophecyline.com/
I don’t understand the Christians who seem almost to WANT to go through the tribulation. All I can say is, they must not understand how horrific it is going to be. Hey, I’m yammering on again. Thanks for your comments 🙂
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I support RaptureReady financially and have been reading it since the mid nineties. I didn’t even know Terry had a new blog. Thanks. I would probably comment here more often but wordpress makes the logging in such a hassle.:-)
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You know, I was wondering if that was the case, because I have the same frustration as a non-registered blogspot user, I have to choose one of my online identities, then “prove I’m not a robot spammer” and sometimes the comment gets lost in the process. Yeah, I don’t know why Terry hasn’t publicized his new blog much. I have reblogged all of his entries on the series I mentioned so far, but I think I’m the only one who has left any “likes” on there and he’s been at it for I think 5 weeks now.
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You never fail to say the exact thing I need at the exact time I need it. I had just decided to stop watching and listening to certain news shows and blogs because of the level of depravity. Just because Lot was vexed doesn’t mean we have to become over-vexed.
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All I can tell you is that this blog has belonged to the Lord all the while, and many times I don’t even know what I’m doing, lol, cuz it’s Him in charge. There are days I wonder, why am I doing this, is anyone reading? But then I have to remember that I have (for good reason) tried to always direct my readers to the other sources of Christian news out there and that I also encourage folks to feel free not to “follow” if they get tired of multiple posts clogging their inbox, just come to the URL and read whatever you want. (It is possible via WordPress to change your settings to get the posts all in one e-mail per day or once a week, etc). I think that in the past 2 weeks a LOT of people took a break from reading. And as far as commenting, when the news leaves you speechless, what is there to say?
My prayers get simpler every day. “God, help us be what we ought to be and live pleasing to You, and, please come get us soon!”. But I do like to hear from you guys. One of my oldest friends from back in school days, reads my blog (which I didn’t know she read it regularly) and when I finally saw her a few weeks back she told me “I think about you all the time”. LOL. I had no way of knowing this and it touched me to hear her say so. I do sometimes feel “forgotten” in my world of “not as able” as most folks. Though at the same time, this year has been a tough one and I have been purposely withdrawn while I absorb things. I had not heard from her in quite some time, which I understand because she has 4 kids and a full-time job and AML (form of Leukemia) which requires chemo (pill form) for the rest of her life and keeps her feeling pretty low on energy most of the time. But I think that her life is probably a blur sometimes and she doesn’t realize how long it’s been, that although she is keeping up with my life via the blog, I have no idea what’s going on in her life! Along with all my other “stuff” I am very hard of hearing, so I don’t do much phone chatting. That’s how come I hunted her down and showed up at her work that week, lol. Wow, I just chattered your ear off in a comment. Ha!
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Vexed. Exactly! Good word!
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