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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part VIII)

“I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Rev. 19:10, KJV. “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Rev. 12:17. “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they who keep the commandments of God, have the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14:12.

From these three verses alone, all pointing to the last of the seven stages of the church since after Pentecost(Rev. 2, 3), clearly says that the church and people who are identified as keeping the commandments of God (not man) and have the faith of Jesus (not their “own faith”) are the “remnant of the church’s “seed,” therefore the remnant of the original church the 12 apostles founded with Christ, not Peter, as it’s Corner stone. The Rock of ages.

How but natural, proper and true to form and substance, that it is to this remnant of the original that Jesus Himself entrusted, as a divine bestowal, the last gift of prophecy, especially qualified as equal to the demand for the closing messages and work of the final revival and reformation to prepare the literal spiritual final generation of the church as well as warn the world of the close of probation, followed by the second advent of Christ. It is called “the Spirit of prophecy, which is the Testimony of Jesus.”

I share with countless sincere, diligent, prayerful seekers of the advancing light of “the present, testing truths” “as it is in Jesus,” the well-studied, proven-beyond doubt, experimental knowledge (still in full progress) that this last gift of the Spirit of PROPHECY, which is the TESTIMONY of Jesus was given to and through a humble, simple, grade 3 educated, sickly woman, when two apparently much more older, educated, and qualified men, one black the other white, declined the calling—-again, as the last of the special line of messenger-prophets (not in the class of the minor or major prophets, and certainly not in the line of the godly Protestant reformers of the Reformation whose main work was to fulfill Christ’s own prophecy recorded in His own mini apocalypse in Matt. 24.

Verses 21, 22 reveals “the great tribulation,”’ (not to be mistaken for the “times of trouble” in Revelation) would be “shortened for the elect’s sake lest there be no flesh saved.”

The Reformation in the 16th century brought the bloody Dark Ages of the papal rule over the world about 5o years before it ended, according to the 1260-day prophecy with the capture and imprisonment of Pope Pius VI by Berthier, general of Napoleon’s French Republican army.

To be continued as to what the Spirit of prophecy says His people should expect, prepare for, and not be blind-sided again, as the Covid pandemic shamefully revealed, exposing our lack of knowledge of God’s word, and the consequent faithless faith! Bless all, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS?

The end-time, line of prophecy, combined Elijah-and-John- the-Baptist messages and work, in their respective dispensations, generations, times and places, one following and building up on the former, are the cumulative, prophesied magnified content and burden of the worldwide closing messages and work of the Third angel of Revelation 14 for these last days.

Their messages and combination work of revival and reformation, either as a last attempt to “snatch” Israel (of the ten northern tribes) from the brink of their terminal-stage apostasy, or to warn the Jewish nation, the chosen people, whose religious leaders were called a “generation of vipers” (deadly venomous snakes). John the Baptist “warned to flee the wrath to come,” by bringing forth fruit meet (worthy) of repentance.” This was the necessary preparation for the promised-by-way-of-prophecy Messiah to come.

They had to be “purged” by the “fiery baptism of the Holy Spirit or else be reserved to be “burned as chaff with unquenchable fire” in the cleansing fires of the last days as the final reward of unjust and wicked. (Note: both messenger-prophets accomplished their work but those warned, rejected them and their messages, in fact and truth, they rejected God, the Giver of the messages. The few of accepted it, carried forward the lighted candlestick of truth, its flame “a light to the feet and a lamp to the path ahead in march of time).

These two messenger-prophets’ messages-work were so pivotal in the preservation and progress of the plan of redemption in the Old and New Testament dispensations that the they were designated by God himself as “messengers” first, then, prophets, in that order—describing the solemnity, gravity, and time-sensitive nature of their messages and the specific work it entailed in order to accomplish a specified divine purpose.

The Bible repeatedly emphasizes the necessity of establishing the truth “in the mouth of two or three [credible, harmonious] witnesses,” at the very least. These two, in this context, are Elijah followed by John the Baptist. (Note: the New and Old Testaments are also symbolized in apocalyptic prophecy as “two prophets” and “two witnesses” (Rev. 11:1-13 that belong to a distinct and separate line of prophecy within the 2300-days of Dan. 8’:14) and are never to be misapplied to either Moses and Elijah, as the hyperliteralistic Rapture, Premillenial, Zion-centric interpretation teaches, nor to Moses and Elijah (who appeared with Christ at the mount of transfiguration, to reveal to Peter, James, and John, three witnesses and thus to the world through their testimony, a miniature representation of the future kingdom of glory made up of both resurrects and translated saints).

Therefore, following the “two or three witnesses” rule in the continuum of the specific and special messenger-prophet line, who, in these last days, is the third and last of them—-to help prepare a people and warn the world of the events on earth and in heaven, leading up to the close of earth’s probation just prior to Christ glorious second advent?

It is absolutely essential to know who, based on the same Bible and its prophecies, as well as church and denominational history of the advent movement, because it is from this third and last messenger-prophet that we are basing our information and enlightenment as to what to expect and prepare for, post Covid pandemic or simply moving forward from hereon.

To be continued. Bless all, NMF