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A Passion for Prophecy. Because we await a Person Because we have a Purpose! Be ye therefore ready! (Matt24v44) * Is the Church? – Bahamas! Birth pains – More Intense? Action, Apathy Antagonism?. A Passion Heard!. x. 400 miles. < 400miles. The Past
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A Passion for Prophecy • Because we await a Person • Because we have a Purpose! • Be ye therefore ready! (Matt24v44) • * Is the Church? – Bahamas! • Birth pains – More Intense? • Action, Apathy Antagonism?
A Passion Heard! x 400 miles < 400miles
The Past When would Christ come to Bethlehem? Before The Persian Empire? - (550–330 BC) Psalm 22 16 …….a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. 18 They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing. - (1000 BC) Learning from Eternity
Passion to know the Prophecies! • Prophecies and types of each Book of the Old Testamentfulfilled in Jesus Christ and His Churcha total of 1,093 • Old Testament – all fulfilled 100% • Around 5 times as many Relating to the Second Coming!
THE PRESENT • Be ye therefore ready! (Matt24v44) • * Is the Church? – Bahamas? • Priorities – 1 Thess. 1v8-10 • Birth pains – More Intense? • Action or Apathy? *
What time is it? ALMOST MIDNIGHT! Prophecies clearly seen today!
Jesus' Unique Understanding • Matthew 24: • v4 Truth will come under attack • v5/23/24 False Christ’s – False hope • v6 International Unrest • v7 Human Suffering – Creation Groaning • v12 Love Grows Cold - Wickedness • v24………….the Fig Tree
Matthew 24v32/33 • 32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. • 33Even so, when you see all these things, you know that He is near, right at the door.
The Real Jesus • “At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord….” (Philippians 2v10/11) • His Victory seen on Earth – Zechariah 14…. Verse 9 - The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only Name. * Immanuel – GOD with us!
1 John 4 (Contend) 2…….Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the World.
God has a test? • Many in Corinth wanted to know if their personal faith was genuine – “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test? 2 Corinthians 13v5
2 Corinthians 11:4 • For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different *spirit from the one you received, or a different **gospel from the one you accepted, you **put up with it easily enough. • * Experience without substance • ** Ignorance in the Churches (2) • *** Jesus – Almighty, Creator, Saviour, God.
Daniel 12v4 “ But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,and knowledge shall be increased ”
Time to think! • Radio – 1958 “Living Doll”
* Time to think in 2012? • Mobile Call/ Surf/ Text/ PM/Tweet/App • i-Pod/ Walkman/ mp4/ mp3/ wav/ wma • Radio - Music/ Debate/ News/or Cliff!! • Car – TV / Car Air-con/ Sat Nav/Speaks! • Car – DVD / Port. DVD player/ iPhone cnxn • CD player/ Mini-Disc/ DAB Radio/FM/AM • Car computer & Chat!/ PDA/Dash Info • Finding another disk tape or mp3/4 • Computer game/ PSP/ Nintendo DS etc
Babylon and a Woman Riding a Beast Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides. - Rev 17 “Babylon is fallen - that great city is fallen!She has become a home for demons” – Rev 18
< Greek 2 Euro Coin and 5 Euro Coin > This statue is outside the EU office in Brussels - a woman riding a beast. >>>
No Sign of Babylon? Modelled on Pieter Brueghel's famous 16th century painting "The Tower Of Babel", the poster shows the peoples of Europe rebuilding the tower that God destroyed in Genesis 11:5-9
Is it already built? Daniel saw all the World Empires including the Final one – YET this isn’t the ONLY BABYLON that has appeared in our lifetime!
Babylonian > Woman, the Beast and Babylon in the Final World Empire >>>
Passion for the Key to Prophecy • Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. 4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will Gather You and Bring You Back. 5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. Deut. 30:3-5
Passion to share Christ NOW!!! But we know that God accepts only those who have faith in Jesus Christ.No one can please God by simply obeying the Law. So we put our faith in Christ Jesus, and God accepted us because of our faith. Galatians 2:16
Passion to speak of His People! * From now and on, whenever or wherever you will be using your mobile/ cell phone, please remember that it comes from Israel, this tiny country - the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the World’s Population!
Reading Isaiah 43v5-6 • Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the Eastand gather you from the West. 6 I will say to the North, ‘Give them up!’and to the South, ‘Do not hold them back.’Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 43v5-6 • From the east: Many Jews living in the Middle East moved to Israel by the early 1900s. • From the west: During mid-1900s, hundreds of thousands of Jews living in the West (Europe and the United States) began moving to Israel. • From the north: The former Soviet Union (Russia) is north of Israel. It refused to allow its Jewish residents to move to Israel. But, after years of pressure from other countries, Russia finally began to allow Jews to return to Israel during the 1980s. So far, hundreds of thousands of Russian Jews have moved to Israel. • From the south: Ethiopia, which is south of Israel, also refused to allow its Jews to return to Israel. But, in 1985, Israel struck a deal with Ethiopia's communist government to allow the Jews of Ethiopia to move to Israel. On the weekend of May 25, 1991, 14,500 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel. bring your children from the Eastand gather you from the West. I will say to the North, ‘Give them up!’and to the South, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Two Most attacked Books! • 1 - Genesis - The book of the beginning. Revelation - The book of the end. • 2 - Genesis - The Earth created (1:1). Revelation - The Earth passed away (21:1). • 3 - Gen 3 - Satan's first rebellion. Rev (20:3, 7-10) - Satan's final rebellion! • 4 - Sun to govern the day (1:16). Revelation - No need of the sun (21:23) ** • 5 - Darkness called night (1:5). Revelation - "No night there" (22:5). • 6 - Waters called seas (1:10). Revelation - "No more sea" (21:1). • 7 - Man in God's image (1:26). Rev 13 - Man headed by one in Satan's image! • 8 - Entrance of sin (Gen 3). Revelation - Development and end of sin (21, 22). • 9 - Curse pronounced (3:14, 17). Revelation - "No more curse" (22:3) ** • 10 - Death entered (3:19). Revelation - "No more death" (21:4) ** • 11 - Man driven out from Eden (3:24). Revelation - Man restored (22). • 12 - Tree of life guarded (3:24). Revelation - "Right to the Tree of Life" (22:14) *3* • 13 - Sorrow and suffering enter (3:17). Revelation (21:4) - No more sorrow • 14 - Marriage of first Adam (2:18-23). Revelation - Marriage of last Adam (19). • 15 - A bride sought for Abraham's son (Isaac) and found (Gen 24) - • - Revelation - Bride made ready & brought to Abraham's Son (Rev 19:9). See Matt. 1:1. • 16 - Man's dominion ceased and Satan's begun (Gen 3:24) - • - Satan's dominion ended, and man's restored (Revelation 22). • 17 - The doom of the old serpent pronounced (Gen 3:15) - • - The doom on the old serpent executed (Revelation 20:10). A Passion to Defend His Prophetic Word!!
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