PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST

  

BY DR. FRANCIS FAWKES 

Yes, let me relate a dream that I had of the Rapture which occurred in Nassau, The Bahamas.  The Rapture is the next appearing of Jesus Christ.  This occurred in the 1980’s and I have related it many times.  Jesus is coming back soon.  What is stunning is that He is coming back sooner than most people think, and many will be caught off-guard.  My observation is this includes many church-going Christians.

The dream is as follows.  I was on the ground and instantaneously, I was taken up hundreds of feet in the air.  When I looked down, there were many people still on the streets of Nassau in broad daylight.  They did not seem to know that Jesus had come for His church and left.  The Bible tells us that Jesus is coming as a thief in the night.  “For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be” - Matthew 24: 27.

In another dream, I saw people disappearing from the earth in groups.  These were prepared.  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh – Matthew 24: 44.

What I saw below was that people were busy going about their jobs and other business matters.  There was lots of wealth with the impressive cars that The Bahamas had, and it was glistening in the sun.  The people exuded egotism and pride, which was ironic, for they were not ready for the Master when He came.  When I woke up, I was mildly depressed to know that so many people were left behind.  In the 2nd Rapture dream, I saw whole groups disappearing from the face of the earth. These were the prepared.

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” – 1 Thessalonians 4: 16-17.  This is called The Rapture and the original Greek word used in the passage is “Harpazo” meaning “to snatch out or away.”

I was relating this dream to an aunt of mine, and she was impressed that another woman on the island of Eleuthera had an identical dream.  She too was taken up high into the air, and saw many unprepared people still on the ground.  I took it to mean that God was confirming that my dream was authentic.

Later on, the Lord impressed upon me something that perplexed me at the time.  He said that not all Christians are going up in the Rapture.  Again, He said some people think that they are Christians, but they are not.

The passage of scripture comes to mind regarding this is: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.  Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’  Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you.  Away from me, you evildoers!’

IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR THE SECOND APPEARING OF JESUS THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST DO.  YOUR SALVATION IS IMPORTANT.

In order to prepare for the Rapture you must start now.  Here are the steps you should take:

1) You must realize that Jesus died for you and His blood wipes away all your sins.  “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”- Ephesians 2: 8.

2) After you have accepted Jesus in your heart, your code of conduct is holiness.  The Bible says: “be at peace with all men and practice holiness without which no man shall see God” (Hebrews 12: 14).  Jesus is coming back for a church saved and sanctified.  It is a church “without one sport or wrinkle, pure and holy” – Ephesians 5: 27.

3) You must also live a life of continued repentance, so that the blood of Jesus can wipe those sins out as they come (Acts 3: 19).

4) Minister salvation to others (John 3: 16; 1 John 1: 7).

ALL THE OTHER MEDIATORS HAD SIN, AND NO SIN CAN ENTER HEAVEN.  JESUS WAS THE ONLY MEDIATOR WITHOUT SIN, HE IS THE DOOR TO THE FATHER.  JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER BUT BY HIM (JOHN 14: 6).

Do not get caught up in the doctrine of “Hyper-Grace” which means that all sins past, present and future are forgiven.  You will continue repenting until the end for your future sins.  “Once saved always saved is the false doctrine of Calvinism.  Your sins are not removed until there is repentance.  Therefore, you can never use your salvation as a license to sin.

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God’s Israel

ISRAEL – ‘THE APPLE OF GOD’S EYE’

By Francis Fawkes, Th.D.

The Jews are definitely God’s chosen people.  Just as God has chosen a people unto Himself, He has also chosen a land for them in which to dwell in perpetuity.  God himself measured the dimensions of this land over 3000 years ago (Joshua 1: 3-4).  God is therefore a Zionist.

We can certainly depend on the Bible in authenticating the identity of the Jews as the chosen ones.  It is the most accurate book of all antiquity.  Of the 27 scriptural texts of the other world’s religions, there is a great deal more documentary evidence confirming the historical and textual reliability of the Bible.

Also, those clever Jewish scribes took great care to foolproof the Bible for all posterity.  They knew that with time comes distortion.  Therefore, they counted every word and every letter on every page.  If the count was incorrect on re-examination, the inaccurate page was torn up and the scribe started the process of writing again.  So scrupulous were they in their pursuit for perfection, we know that there are 304,805 letters in the book of Genesis.  There is also a count of the number of vowels and consonants in each book that they copied.

In getting back to the subject, the Bible states that the Lord “…chose Jacob unto Himself and Israel for a peculiar treasure” (Psalm 135: 4).  Most of all, God avowed to make the Jewish people “…high above all nations whom He hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour…” (Deuteronomy 26: 19).

The Jews above all, were chosen to spread God’s light throughout the planet.  They are the conduits through which the salvation of Jesus Christ was made available to humanity.  In both the spiritual and the secular spheres, they have been overachievers.  This is a fulfillment of the prophecy that all the nations of the earth shall be blessed by Israel (Genesis 18: 18).

THROUGH THE JEW ALL THE WORLD IS BLESSED

Christianity came to us through the Jew.  From the Judeo-Christian ethic came the great technological innovations and cultural developments as we know them today.  It is an established fact that Bible believing creationists founded every branch of science.

The Gentile nations also profited from the Christian perspective.  The people responsible for our technological innovations began life as barbarians.  The Vikings, the other Germanic tribes – including the Goths, Franks and the Saxons were a menace to the European coast.  They destroyed everything in their path as a sacrifice to their demonic gods of war.

When the Bible permeated their culture, they became civilized and today you find among them the Scandinavian peoples, the British and the Americans.  Since these people honoured the word of God in their culture, it is observed that a great number of the Nobel Prizes in Science and Technology go to them.  It is further noticed that all other countries in the Bible belt that adopt the Judeo-Christian ethic begin to prosper materially, intellectually and spiritually as well.

A modern day nation that has arisen from poverty and illiteracy is Norway.  After a farm boy introduced the Bible into this culture, the Norwegians immediately began to notice the difference.  Today, they are the most prosperous nation in the world per capita.

In South Korea, the same thing happened.  After the gospel was allowed to flourish, this country became the 12^th richest nation in the world in 25 years.

Just as these blessings have followed the genetic offspring of Abraham, they have followed his spiritual descendants – the gentiles.  As the people of African ancestry obey the call to carry God’s light throughout the world, God likewise, will prosper them in the different spheres of human endeavour.  “In the last days, Ethiopia shall stretch forth her wings” - (Psalm 68: 31).

THE JEWISH INTELLECT - THE RESULT OF A GENERATIONAL

BLESSING

Many have marveled at the phenomenal accomplishments of the Jewish people in almost every sphere of human endeavour.  The ordinary man attributes this to intellect.  Psychologists search for a genetic or environmental basis for their high IQ (Intelligence Quotient) ratings.

However, this is part and parcel of the generational blessings coming down from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  If the Ashkenazi Jews (those of Polish, Russian and German ancestry) are found to score 10 to 15 points higher on IQ tests than the surrounding populations, it is not by their own resourcefulness.  It is by the Spirit of God.  The Creator has equipped them to be a blessing to all nations as He has prophesied.  When God calls for something, he provides for it.

Other speculators would suggest that the Jews have bred eugenically over the years, when the sons of scholars married the daughters of the merchant class, thus producing the survival of the fittest intellectually.  Their intellect has led them, as some to contend, to withstand persecution.  However, other great nations before them have disappeared from the earth with much less persecution.  There is a supernatural component to the survival of the Jew.

Even their enemies have acknowledged their ability to innovate and their intellectual prowess.  It is a known fact, that one in five of all Nobel laureates have been Jewish - even though they are 1/24 of 1 percent of the world’s population.  Other interesting observations are 1/3 of the faculty at Harvard Medical School is Jewish, and also 1/3 of Nobel Prize winners in medicine are also Jewish.

In the arts, they are the world’s most formidable performers.  It is conceded by some that the Jewish born Felix Mendelssohn was a greater musical prodigy that Mozart.  Mendelssohn was a walking musical library at 12.  With total recall, he could produce any classical piano work on demand.

Today, Jewish concert pianists and concert violinists are the personification of their art.  They are icons in the performance world without equal.  The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, called the aristocrat of orchestras, consists of all former first chair players from all over the world.

BEWARE OF INTELLECTUAL IDOLATRY

Since the dawn of history, 800 civilizations perished when they violated God’s universal principles of morality.  These civilizations became worn down not necessarily because of a lack of intellectual insight, creativity or scientific innovations.  They fell because of a lack of revealed knowledge through the oracles of God.  In Proverbs 29:18, it states that “where there is no vision, the people perish.”  People generally interpret this to mean man- based vision.  However, man’s vision is flawed and sometimes he and his vision perish.  Vision in this context is the Hebrew word for revelation.  God’s ideal modus operandi for humankind is to function through the intellect and a combination of intuition (or revealed knowledge) coming from the Holy Spirit.  When there is a high level of revelation knowledge, a nation will begin to experience real and sustained prosperity.

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