Prophecy Friday

I had felt pretty comfortable with my position on the rapture and the second coming,

I basically had two major scripture as a foundation to support my position :

1Th:5:9: For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

1Th:4:16: 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:
1Th:4:17: 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.
1Th:4:18: Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

I went along quite lovely like that for several years . My level of interest in prophecy peaking at several times in my life when global events seemed to be heating up and the prophetic pot was stirred so to speak.

Events like the Chernobyl event , The Dessert Storm war , The Y2K Scare, 9/11
　
Somewhere between The dessert storm war and the Y2K Scare , and during a long stint in corporate America, I realized I was not where I should be with God.

Something was missing and I felt like the fire of my faith was going out.

I was so far from the young girl that would ride the public transportation system all day carrying Bibles and Tracts, sharing my love of Jesus to anyone that would give me 30 seconds of time .

Thank the Lord Jesus for praying Mother’s, and the prayers of unknown intercessors who took to their knee’s and never let up.

In the Spring of 1994 , I repented , and I turned back to Him full steam on fire and hungry for His word.

God had forgiven me the moment I surrendered.

I would like to say that I immediately felt the love of God in my life again, that I was back in the presence of God , but for me it would be a while until I felt the warmth of His presence and the flow of my prayer life restored to me in an even greater way.

It was during this time of restoration that I began to understand what I shared with Jesus was a relationship.

No more “religious” activity that left me empty and only “looked” good on the outside. That will kill you. It was relationship with Jesus. I wanted to know Him. Like I knew the people in my life I loved with all my heart.

I would spend another 8 years in corporate America . But this time, Jesus came to work with me everyday and my last 8 years were spiritually fruitful, many came to Christ, they are still prayer partners with us, and attend Friday evening Bible study , some have moved on and are pastors and evangelizing, nationally and internationally.

As I became diligent to God’s word, and really began to spend meaningful time in it’s pages, so many truths just seemed to jump off the page and some began to unfold….into more detail …….

January 8, 1998 - We opened our home to Weekly Bible Study , with a young new pastor, who was on fire for God. , he came weekly to our home and taught us the Word of God. He really poured himself out to us as a man of God and we flourished in God’s presence and in His word.

Pastor was an incredible bible teacher and still is , God has expanded his ministry by leaps and bounds. He now has a national and international ministry to the Body of Christ and has a ministry to the ministers. He is an apostolic leader, prophetic speaker, teacher, writer and mentor and a dear friend .

My husband and I thank God for the time we sat under the teaching of this faithful man of God.

It was during this time that I developed a passion for God’s word. I began to just indulge myself in God’s word and was astonished at all I had “missed”.
God called Pastor to Michigan and we kept the bible study going.

In 2000, My husband began to teach our Friday night study and we started into the Book of Revelation.

It had been a few years since I had studied Revelation in depth. We began reading through Revelation each week as a Bible Study. With no commentary , Just God’s Word and we did that for over a year, about 60 weeks.

Each bible study I took notes, and I was beginning to see things developing in the Word of God that I never had.

During my devotional and reading time , I would find myself going over notes from Bible study and trying to put all the little pieces and thought together.

7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, 7 Vials…………… Each week I would read and hear the entire book of revelation at bible study and I began to develop a thought in my head.

Each of these seven judgments had so many similarities…… It was almost like God kept telling the same story over , each time with more detail ???? Could that be? Does God layer his Word like that ?
　
It was just like the thought that was developing during my bible study time regarding the Trumpets of God .

I had always identified the “Trump” Of 1Thessolians as a trump that was like a special trump that all Christians would hear and then we would be raptured.
　
1Th:4:16: 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:
　
Now , another layer is added ………………..

1Co:15:51: Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co:15:52: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Same event, more information…..THE LAST TRUMP

There it was again that last trump….sticking out at me , what was it that was different ? what was the key ? the clue? the sticking point………..
It was the LAST TRUMP…..God was saying it is at the Last Trump these things would occur…..

Well when is the last trump ???????? Would the saints would be raptured at the LAST TRUMP. ?????
One day studying Matthew it stuck out to me and shook my previously held position to the core.
　

M't:24:29: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
M't:24:30: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
M't:24:31: And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

WHOA……………. Could this really be true…..It was not what I had be taught , not what was the predominant view. And I really wanted to be outta here before all this stuff happens.

Hugs & Prayers, GG