Sunday 13 November 2016

HAS GOD RAISED UP A KING CYRUS?

By pastor Mike Taylor


1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
2When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” (Proverbs 29:1-2)

I don't know about  you, but the last several months have been a roller coaster of emotions, fears, and me deciding to put the matter into God's hands. The election is finally over and whether your candidate won or not, we as a nation have enormous problems that will not go away anytime soon.

The last 8 years have seen an administration that has pulled this nation down a wide path of moral depravity. This POTUS, (I will NOT say his name) has so divided this country along racial, gender, economic, and political lines drawn in the sand to such an extent that the country I grew up in, played in, and worked in has changed to a near unrecognizable image of its former glory and stature in the world and at home.

As I take a long, slow breath, I thank God for His mercy and grace that did not allow the single most criminal, flawed, and divisive candidate to ever run for the highest office in the land and leader of the free world that did not win the trust and the winning votes of the American people. On this day after the most important election of our times, second only to the last two that went the wrong way for the continued success of this experiment called the United States of America, I take a long look at where we have arrived and where possibly, we might be headed to.

WHAT CAN WE HOPE FOR IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

Know this, my friend, this is no mere man that can solve the problems that has taken so many years in slow increments to come to a near boiling point, and find a solution to our collective national problems.  
Now a man who has the corporate and business experience of a Donald Trump may point the nation in the right direction for our economic recovery and as he likes to say “Make America Great Again”. Realize that this man has huge problems to tackle in his first 100 days in office, let alone for the next four years. It will take more than human intervention to aright this sinking ship of state. What this nation needs is a deep, spiritual revival to restore the God centered institutions that were laid by our founding fathers after and during the American Revolution. America needs to be on her knees crying out to God for mercy for the sins of this nation which has been in rebellion against God for the last 50+ years and even more so in the last 8 years.

One thing I believe is probable here, is that a Trump administration could...I say COULD slow the decline of this nation into the abyss of destruction and becoming either a One World Government participant in the near future, or becoming a third world banana republic with no influence in the world affairs that affect human kind.  I truly believe that his opponent, I believe would have “put the pedal the metal” for our complete downfall or brought on a larger conflict with the rising power and our chief nemesis, the Russian bear. Our social, political and foreign policy programs would have been a continuation of the present administration, but doubling down on the proverbial psychodelic high of a Clinton presidency.

Right now, the liberal left is in full panic mode and reacting as you would expect, like total children who just lost their rubber ball to the bully on the block. I read about protest and rioting on the west coast. Threats on Twitter of taking the law into their own hands and advocating the assassination of the newly elected President of the United States. The rule of law has taken a detour in the last few years and lawlessness abounds.

I find it amazing that they can't see, that in prior elections half of the country elected the “usurper in chief” the community organizer that had virtually no experience in running any government outside of Chicago slums. But they are swift to condemn this election when the results are not to their left leaning agenda of political correctness and what seems right in the minds of mortal men who find pleasure in unrighteousness. Paul described our world that we live in nearly 2000 years ago, some 40 years after the Lord Jesus ascended  to heaven in front of His apostles.

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, evenhis eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” (Romans 1:18-21)

I have preached for some time the demise and complete destruction of this country, as I see it going from bad to worse in our generation. Men have become just what Paul expressed in the above verses in Romans. The debauchery that has called evil good and good evil is in front of the nation's eyes everyday. We have succumbed to the left with it's abortion rights and the killing of millions of innocent lives without end for the last 50 years. We have given legitimacy to homosexual relations within the bonds of Holy Matrimony which in God's eyes is an abomination. We have allowed terrorism in this world and entering into our nation to grow and fester to the point that no one is safe in their own home. And the national ills keep growing as we have, as a nation, turned our back on God and our leaders are immoral and set the tone of the morality of the nation.

23 “And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (Romans 1:23-28)

That is our country. That is our collective sins before God and it goes even deeper...We need some national day of mourning and repentance and turning toward the God of heaven and weeping in sack cloth and ashes, just as Ninevah did during the time of Jonah. Who can God use to  bring this nation out of the moral fog we have drifted into? Will God throw us a lifeline and bring us to repentance?

ENTER THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2016


Thus we have a complete outsider that in the beginning, I feared had no chance of winning anything past the beginning primaries. As an aggressive, even bombastic man slowly whittled the pack of contenders down where he was the last man standing I will admit, I had reservations about the man's qualifications, but I knew he was a success in just about everything he did, and as he has always said “we have so many problems, what do you have to loose?”

HAS GOD RAISED UP A MODERN DAY JEHU OR A KING CYRUS ?

In 1st Kings 19, the Bible tells a story of Elijah who was running from Jezebel and King Ahab who wished to kill him for what God had done to the priest of Ba'al by showing them servants of a  false god, and their subsequent destruction.  If you read the passage, Elijah is distraught that there is none to proclaim God to the nations, that only he was left and they were trying to kill him, too.  What did God say? Elijah was expected something powerful, like He knew God was as he had witnessed fire coming down from heaven to burn the sacrifice before the Ba'al priest including the stones, and lapped up water in the trough built around it, but it came not in an earthquake, or strong wind or in a burning fire - and we have seen plenty of those lately -but it came through the still' small voice. And the message of that voice to God's servant was:


"Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria. Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him."  (1 Kings 19:15-18)

So I have been praying for Jehu-like political leaders to be raised and anointed by God at this very late hour and spiritual leaders of the caliber of Elisha who are willing for God and the nation sake to go for broke like Queen Esther was when she was willing to act politically incorrect when she said: "so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!"  (Esther 4:16)

Much of what we have seen is so mediocre and politically correct that real change is but a fleeting political promise that is quickly forgotten when the election is over. Concerning what God did when Elijah anointed Jehu, king of Israel, that he came and disposed of Queen Jezebel by having her thrown off a high balcony and the dogs ate her flesh. Then he rid the nation of all the sons of the despotic and evil King Ahab, thus ridding the nation of the abomination of Jezebel and Ahab the King. Yes, I realize that the answer to the problems of remedy for Israel's problems is extreme for our time. But God will not tolerate evil in the land for an indefinate period. He is patient and long suffering, but when His judgment comes, it comes swiftly and with Divine retribulation and judgment for the sins of the people who are in rebellion against Him.

Oh, how it is needed today to find and anoint men like Jehu and Elisha, both in the political arena as well as in the spiritual arena who under the mighty anointing of the Lord are willing to do whatever it takes under that anointing to see the will of the Lord triumph in the affairs of men.

Is Donald Trump this hour's King Jehu or a King Cyrus?

Based on this story of Elijah at Horeb when he felt there was no more hope for his Jezebel, Ahab run nation and sighed: 'Let me die', the Lord impressed on me that as then, also now in relation to the US, He needed a Jehu-like leader to be anointed and a Elijah-like prophet like Elisha became. In other words His answer to the desperate situation in the land was a strong fierce leadership, both in the political as well as the spiritual dimensions. 

The reason that there was hope in Israel in the time of King Jehu, was that there still was 7000 men who had not bowed the knee to Ba'al. This can also be said for the intercessors who have been washed in the blood of the Lamb of God, who have stood in true intercession for the United States of America. I have been so distraught and resigned that judgment has come to America and we will see her decline into the pit of hell.

But as we watched the aforementioned candidates drop off one by one, and Donald Trump was left standing alone, I felt God may be preparing a modern day Jehu to bring America back to her foundational principles of God, country, family and allegiance to all  in that order.

I would like to share with you an article I just read in a column written in Charisma magazine:
Jeremiah Johnson of “Behold the Man Ministries” in Lakeland, Florida, said he was praying several weeks ago "when God began to speak to me concerning the destiny of Donald Trump in America:"


The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, "Trump shall become My trumpet to the American people, for he possesses qualities that are even hard to find in My people these days. Trump does not fear man nor will he allow deception and lies to go unnoticed. I am going to use him to expose darkness and perversion in America like never before, but you must understand that he is like a bull in a china closet.



Many will want to throw him away because he will disturb their sense of peace and tranquility, but you must listen through the bantering to discover the truth that I will speak through him. I will use the wealth that I have given him to expose and launch investigations searching for the truth. Just as I raised up Cyrus to fulfill My purposes and plans, so have I raised up Trump to fulfill my purposes and plans prior to the 2016 election.


You must listen to the trumpet very closely for he will sound the alarm and many will be blessed because of his compassion and mercy. Though many see the outward pride and arrogance, I have given him the tender heart of a father that wants to lend a helping hand to the poor and the needy, to the foreigner and the stranger."


Johnson cited the specific Old Testament example of God personally selecting the non-believing, pagan King Cyrus to work on His behalf, as recounted in the 45th chapter of the Book of Isaiah.



1Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.” (Isaiah 45:1-3)

Not only may Donald Trump be a Jehu whom God will use to finish much of the corruption which has been the hallmark of the Obama-Clinton administrations in America and thus "drain the swamp" but he will also become a great, great friend of Israel, a modern day Cyrus who was God's anointed one to help and back Israel in days past even to build the temple unto the Lord in Jerusalem. As God's word in chapter 45 in Isaiah so clearly indicates

4For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” (Isaiah 45:4-7)

I believe we will see political judgment come upon our modern day Jezebel and Ahab, the Clinton dynasty. Remember, Trump said if elected he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate all the inside dealings and criminal activity associated with the  Clinton Foundation. My friend, it will be a purging of the American political landscape and many will be found to be enemies of the United States and enemies of our most trusted ally in the Middle East, the nation of Israel.


And despite UNESCO and its stupid edict that Israel has no connection with the Temple Mount, Donald Trump will reaffirm this link publicly by moving the United States Embassy for the first time from Tel Aviv to Israel's true and biblical capital: Jerusalem and back Israel's desire to reconstitute prayer and worship for all nations on God's holy hill when Israel is ready to begin preparations to build the beautiful, Messianic Temple of God's holy hill as described by the prophet Ezekiel in the chapters 40-48! 
I can imagine what you're thinking: “That is exactly what the Anti-Christ will do” Yes, the ultimate man of sin, the man of perdition will indeed give Israel the right to build a Temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount.  No, I don't believe that Trump is the prophesied Anti-Christ. What he will be is a facillitator of Israel's right to exist and give her the ability to continue in prosperity and be her defender. This will obviously lead to a time of  great political intrigue in the land of Israel.

What I pray is that God will give the man we know as Donald Trump the wisdom of Solomon to govern in righteousness and justice for all people of this land. The coming AC will be so charismatic that he will swoon the people with soft words and a lying tongue. At the moment, Donald Trump is hated by half the nation, and the world is fearful of what his foreign policy positions will be. I pray that his actions will galvanize the American people to know that the man is a lover of the USA and the American people. The Anti-Christ will have no such limitations. What I pray for is that God will give us a time of a reprieve from judgment. A temporary time that we will have a chance to reach many more people for the Kingdom of God and bring more people to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.  We have “God willing” four  to eight years to increase the entrance of many more souls into the coming removal of the church from this earth known as the “rapture”. If it be in the next 8 years, know that many people in government will vanish, just as common folks will. It is reported that Trump and  Mike Pence are both  born again Christians. If they would suddenly vanish with millions of other souls, would it not be a total chaos in the United States and around the world, even in Israel? The world will need, they will clamor for a man to bring tranquility back to the nations which has been turned upside down. So sets the stage for the coming Anti-Christ. WE may see many changing things in  the political landscape in the near future, we may not. And I may be all  wet in this assessment, but I have seen God's hand moving in our political landscape and the alignment of world powers. The rise of a well known, but political outsider to the highest office in the land at near insurmountable odds, can only be the hand of God, as people said the man, Donald Trump had no chance...

But here he is folks, the next POTUS was elected last Tuesday night. We live in very exciting times and the end of the world as we know it, got a little extention as the end of the age grows ever closer.  Let us spread the Gospel to all men and women who need the salvation found only in our Lord Jesus Christ, before this short reprieve ends and we see another administration that won't be in the best interest of the United States of America.  I have postulated that the coming Anti-Christ would have to be the leader of the strongest nation on earth with Babylon being the center of all commerce and trade, and for the last 150 years, that place has only been New York City...will the USA and it's leader become the beast power, or will we be reduced to rubble in the coming future?. God only knows and I make no predictions, but just give you the facts found in your bible, and let God reveal to you what will be based on the signs of the times....For more Biblical aspects of the coming end of this age to add even more depth to the coming end of the age...go to my website and read articles and sermons that warn of the coming Tribulation and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in possibly the very near future at www.pastormiketaylor.blogspot.com.

“For God so love the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
God sent not His Son to condemn the world, but that the world through Him, might be saved”.
(John 3:16-17)

This is pastor Mike Taylor praying for you, our country, and the world we live in. If you need counseling, prayer, or just a listening ear, email me at realteam1999@sbcglobal.net . God bless you all.

TILL WE MEET AT JESUS FEET






Thursday 3 November 2016

IN THE LAST DAYS, EVIL WILL ABOUND


by Pastor Mike Taylor

1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (2nd Timothy 3:1-7)

As  the apostle Paul warned, some 1950 years or so ago, in the last days, the end of this age, we would see perilous times. A time when men would grow exponentially more evil in their practices than in any other time before. Now men have always been sinners, but the expression of evil that has entered into our times, is unprecedented. When combined with Paul's thought in verse 13 of 2nd Timothy, (“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”) the Greek grammar gives the sense of conditions or expressions of human nature that ebb and flow like waves of the sea rather than a constant state of affairs. However, when combined with the idea of things growing "worse and worse" and Jesus' comments about the  day's of Noah, we can understand the situation will be especially intense in our time.

In addition, Paul did not intend us to suppose that everyone would express all of these traits all the time. Rather, all of them would indeed exist in each person since he is describing the elements of every human's deceitful heart, but the intensity of their expression would vary from person to person.

PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED IN OUR DAYS

But can anyone say that the above scriptures have not been being fulfilled? It seems we are seeing these prophecy warnings in ever-greater frequency, as people seem to have less and less compunction about terrorizing and taking the lives of their fellow human beings. Under the grip of a merciless narcissism, many are losing their humanity. Take a look around the world we live in. Let's start with the evil in the Middle East with Islamic terrorist in the likes of ISIS that has spread from Iraq to Libya and they have inflicted a swath of rape, death, and destruction in their march to install a caliphate with its Sharia Law into all parts of the land.

In western Europe, migrants from these lands have invaded their countries where the God of the Bible has all but been relegated to the trash can of human depravity. In its place they have been flooded with “immigrants” who commit evil acts against a people who used to enjoy freedoms that we have enjoyed in our own land. The news is awash with the deeds of Middle Eastern and African Muslims who have all but raped the country into terror for their very lives.

In Communist Russia, the bear has come awake from it's Soviet Socialist days and has flexed its muscles militarily to take over Crimea and the whole of Ukraine without so much as a response from western countries, except in verbal protest. They have filled the void that was left by a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by the so called POTUS, (in name only) and have set up military bases that are now a permanent structure in the life of Syrians and threaten the surrounding areas with bombings and chemical warfare. The whole of Syria is a devastation with a homeless population that struggles to stay alive.

In Israel, the center of God's universe, the Jewish people have been demonized since the creation of their nation in 1948. The UN which is dominated by Arab countries that hate Israel since Isaac and Ishmael were born, have attempted to create a situation where the land of Israel will be pulled back to pre-1967 borders and Jerusalem divided. Christians, even in American have sided with the Palestinians against Israel and directly bring judgment on them by their un-Biblical stance against God's chosen. Israel is surrounded on all sides by those who hate her, and now they have a big dog in their  corner, Putin's Russia.  It's only a matter of time when another prophecy is fulfilled discussed further down.

Looking across the big pond of the Atlantic, we see death and destruction coming to America in the form of terrorist attacks, Black Lives Matters domestic terrorist group killing law enforcement officers, lawlessness in our streets, corruption on a national scale, and an economy that teeters on the brink of collapse. We see one political party who nominates a known criminal and her family, who has more scandals to her credit than Carter has Liver Pills. Islamic terrorist have made multiple attacks on our citizens that fill our news outlets and more are surely planned as the “idiot in chief” has brought unvetted Syrian refugees and settled them in most of the 48 continental USA states without assurances they are not ISIS fighters imbedded in those settled in our country. And to make it even worse, a candidate for the Democratic party plans to increase the amount by 500% without taking precautions to insure that the American people are protected from these same terrorist infiltrators. To me, that's insanity.


If you be a Conservative and thinking for yourself, and not a ”godless” liberal thinker who embraces a blended population without borders and where lawlessness abounds, then you can rightly say, as I do, the world has gone totally mad. Insanity does indeed abound and love for others have grown cold. Even with the terrible deeds that have been perpetrated on an unsuspecting public, here and abroad, the problem will grow exponentially worse, far worse in the near future. Right now we see character and political symptoms that as bad as they are happening, but they are only a precursor of the evil that will raise its ugly head when “Hell will be loosed on this earth”.

As a people, the world's population is bumping right up next to the end of this age. The signs of the end of man's rule on this planet are shouting loud and clear.
I know that I keep bringing the subject up, and the reason being, the drumbeats of that beginning of a time so horrible become  louder and louder, with more intensity. Just look at the symptoms that are screaming at every man, woman and child on this planet. Why do I say that?

Remember that the prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39 will bring to light, in my opinion, the rise of the Anti-Christ, as a peace maker between Israel and the surrounding nations. Not withstanding all the turmoil we see all over the world with the Muslim invasion of democratic countries, but focusing in on what is forming in the Middle East right now that is the precursor of that prophetic event. Russia has formed an alliance with Iran, which has been their proxy in the region for years. The Russian bear has set up military bases and airfields, along with intercontinental ballistic missles capable of nuclear weapons on Israel's doorstep. One false move on either party could bring all out war between Israel and it's Islamic neighbors. I believe there will be an early attempt by fulfilling Psalm 83, but Israel will be victorious in that fight with God's help.

Coming not too long on the heels of this victory by Israel, Russia will think an evil thought, or should I say Putin will.

2Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company withbucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:”......

10Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,” (Ezekiel 38:2-4, 10,11)

Thus will the time usher in a battle so feriocious that 5/6 of this invading army will die on the mountains of Israel and the “plague” will follow them back to their home country. This will happen at the Hands of Almighty God when He passes judgement and His fierce anger is taken out on the nations that dare come against His people or His land. I believe this whole scenario will be after the coming of our Lord and Savior to take His church out of this world, so that the Anti-Christ will be revealed...”evil incarnate”.

“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,” (2nd Thessalonians 2:7-9)...

The reference in the previous verses point to the only possible Power that is holding back rampant evil on this planet, unabated, and without limits. This Power is the Holy Spirit, and He lives in every born again believer. If our Comforter, our Counselor, and our Advocate is taken out of this world, then so are the vessels He indwells spiritually. But up to that point, before this explosive war comes to pass, and the Anti-Christ is finally revealed, the world will be going about living their life as normal as possible...It is the time we live in right now. Don't mistake me, when I say the Holy Spirit is being removed. God's Spirit is being drawn back to Pre-Pentecostal times and giving full sway to the evil that is lurking in the shadows to come out fully into the light. People will still be saved in this time for the efforts of the 144, 000 Jewish evangelist who speak to the world, along with God's two witnesses and many will be saved, but will not be sealed as the Church was, but must guard their salvation at all times, to prevent their crowns from being stolen and succumbing to the Beast power taking the mark of the beast.

JUST BEFORE THE TRIBULATION BEGINS

Jesus said, that as it was in the days of Noah, people would be going about their usual patterns in life. Those patterns have grown more and more evil with passing time.

37But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Matthew 24:37-39)

Evil men were doing then, just as they are doing now, without even thinking that their time on earth was soon to be cut short. What was Jesus referring to, when He made this astonishing prophecy that will play out, I feel, in the not too distant future. He was referring to the time of Tribulation, and the Great Tribulation that would see the rise of the Anti-Christ. See, I believe the man is alive, right now and just waiting for the moment to reveal himself to the world as a charismatic “peace maker”.  This man, the Anti-Christ is called the “lawless one”. The horrific results of Ezekiel 38-39 will, in my humble opininon, set the stage for someone to come forward with a peace treaty that scripture says will be for 7 years.


“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (II Thessalonians 2:9-12)

The man will be glorified, heaped praise upon, and will bring a false sense of security and safety that has finally come to that region of the Middle East and the rest of the world. He will speak great and inspiring words for those who will hang on his every word, labeling him as the “messiah” a bringer of peace.

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” (Daniel 7:25)
The man will proclaim peace, when there is no peace, as was spoken of in similar times by the prophet Jeremiah:

They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, `Peace, peace,' But there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)

So begins the most evil time that has ever come upon the earth. We think the times are evil now, but my friend, you ain't seen nothing yet. I pray, that those reading this never see what I am describing.

 “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. . . .  See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” (Ephesians 5:6-11, 15-17)

MARK OF THE BEAST, EVIL FROM SATAN HIMSELF

Those of us who call Jesus, Lord of our life and have believed in His death and resurrection as God incarnate, need not worry about what is to come during this time where the world is thrown into the coming Tribulation. This part of this message is for the so unfortunate unbeliever that is doomed to live through the time we call the “tribulation”. If you should be reading this and the world is in chaos as millions of people have vanished, and a powerful leader has deemed it necessary to take a “mark” in your forehead or your right hand to continue some form of normal life  in a one world economy then  you must understand one thing. What is this mark?

16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Revelation 13:16-18)

Those who take this mark, by scripture we read that they are doomed to a Devil's hell for all eternity.

9And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” (Revelation 14:9-11)

Some ask if you can take the “mark of the beast” unwittingly and will not be counted as in rebellion against God. The answer in my opinion, is “NO”. As it was in the Roman times, each citizen had to burn incense to a statue of Caesar once a year and proclaim Caesar as a god and worship before that statue.  So will it be here. Each of those who take the mark, will make a conscious decision to proclaim the Anti-Christ as a “god” in the flesh and will worship him or be unable to buy or sell, and will be subject to pain of death if they do not pledge allegiance and worship the Beast Power found in the Anti-Christ. The false prophet will set up a golden image of the “beast” and demand worship of it....Some have suggested that the one world religion will use computer technology that will be broadcast over all the airwaves of the world and ability to monitor those who worship and those who do not. In times past, this was not possible, but with technology advanced as it is, every man, woman and child will be monitored electronically for compliance.

ARE YOU READY FOR THE GREATEST EVIL ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH?

I don't know about you, but if I read any of this and read what is going on in the world that is growing darker and darker with each passing day, I would be in deep depression if I didn't have the blessed Hope that will keep me from this hour of total evil. Who is that blessed 'HOPE” I speak of?


11 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” (Titus 2:11-14)

In this time of great evil that coming upon this world, we proclaim One Name that will save us from the evil to come. His Name, is Jesus Christ...Yeshua...I AM that I AM...Jehovah...God of the Bible. Evil will abound in this period of man's history and many will die. The Bible talks of nearly 80% of the world's population meeting an untimely death, either by divine retribution or at the a hands of evil men. ..God's wrath will double down on a rebellious mankind during this period. If you are so foolish or unfortunate to not take the free gift of salvation offered to you by the grace of God, then you will experience that evil first hand, up close and personal. But Jesus made us a promise that those who belong to Him, as His followers, washed in His precious blood, can have assurance of redemption from what is to come.

10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. (Revelation 3:10-11)

9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.” (1st Thessalonians 5:9-11)

And the salvation message that saves you from the wrath to come and the evil that will be exponential in this horrific time to come.

“ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. “ (John 3:16)

We are all sinners and can't approach a Holy God, but God sent His Son:

8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” (Romans 5:8-9)

Evil is rampant in the world. Evil will only grow worse, but our salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord will find us ready for Him when He comes for His church, before this dire time called the Tribulation comes into existence. Don't wait another moment...ask Jesus into your heart and repent of your sins, right now...call out to Him, and ask for His forgiveness. You do that with a humble and contrite heart knowing that without Him, you will die for all eternity...not just physically, but spiritually for all eternity. And our Great God and Savior will honor your plea and see your humble heart and come into your heart as you open your life to Him...Remember, don't wait...evil grows in this last days to overcome those who wait.

This is Pastor Mike Taylor, praying for your eternal salvation today. If you need prayer, counseling, or just a listening ear, email me at realteam1999@sbcglobal.net, or visit me online at my website www.pastormiketaylor.blogspot.com ...God bless you all,

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