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Ok so if we grab a hold of this concept it could keep us from becoming hyper-religious like the Pharisees, Scribes, Sadducees, teachers, lawyers, and some Samaritan's in the days of Jesus. Oh, and if you think anything has changed in humanity in these days you would be mistaken. 

Where do you think the Catholic Church, denominations, and non-denominational churches came from? They came from our eventual disagreements on our locked in view of the bible and what we think it states for all time as if it were a static book. Those well-entrenched logs in our eyes. 

Now but this way of thinking isn't just or totally about our interpretation of the scriptures which when interpreting scripture this process is pregnant with the opportunities to create confusion, but that it actually comes from the fact that we are completely and totally blind to the scriptures all together. Lets build our case:

Micah 5:2 - “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
 Though you are little among the thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be Ruler in Israel,
Whose goings forth are from of old,
From everlasting.”

Location, location, location. They should have known where this spiritual King was going to come from right. Nope they missed this little detail.

More:

Is 7:14 - Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Behold the Son of God will be born from a virgin woman. Who in all of earth could say such a specific thing and have it come to pass so precisely? They missed this detail as well:

 More X3:

Is 53 - Who has believed our report?
 And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
 And as a root out of dry ground.
 He has no form or comeliness;
 And when we see Him,
 There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
 A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
 And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

4 Surely He has borne our griefs
 And carried our sorrows;
 Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
 Smitten by God, and afflicted.
 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
 We have turned, every one, to his own way;
 And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
 Yet He opened not His mouth;
 He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
 And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
 So He opened not His mouth.
 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,
 And who will declare His generation?
 For He was cut off from the land of the living;
 For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
 9 And they made His grave with the wicked—
 But with the rich at His death,
 Because He had done no violence,
 Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
 He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Hi

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Welcome back to part four of a four-part series on the 7-raptures. 

So no doubt you have learned that there have been and will be raptures. It’s not magic or escapism. It is the plan of God as He is building His kingdom for all of eternity. I hope you have paid close attention to some of the scriptures provided as if you continue in ignorance for no other reason that you are closed minded and/or are even hard-hearted then you will miss it on more than just these scriptures which as the bible states you will be unstable and unlearned. Here is just one scripture to consider how you would respond if it didn’t specifically speak of a rapture or catching away:

Luke 21:36 - 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

What is it talking about if not the rapture? Ok one more:

1 Thes 5:9-10 - 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

If you think you want to hang around during the wrath of God being poured out then you are in for quite a surprise. Preaching the gospel to angry non-believing hornets will be the last thing on your mind, unless you came to the conclusion that you did not need to miss the rapture but did so out of ignorance and stubbornness. If in fact you have that revelation then you will preach.

Rom 1:18 - 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Ok so continue to follow this series and send the links out to any of your friends who are open to the idea. 

This message represents the light that I am moving in at this current time so if I do another message on 10-raptures you can be assured that I will support that claim with scripture leaving the decision as to whether to believe it or not in your hands. 

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Welcome back to part three of a four-part series on the 7-raptures. If your noodle hasn’t been at least a little excited by the revelations contained in this series of messages then I recommend listening to them again with your bible open right up beside you.

Continue to follow this series and send the links out to any of your friends who are open to the idea. 

Please be sure to listen to all four messages as this book is the most complete picture of the rapture event that I have read thus far. This message represents the light that I am moving in at this current time so if I do another message on 10-raptures you can be assured that I will support that claim with scripture leaving the decision as to whether to believe it or not in your hands.

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Welcome back to part two of a four-part series on the 7-raptures. In truth the totality of these scriptures is a 100% completely supported activity which will take place. Continue to follow this series and send the links out to any of your friends who are open to the idea if they in fact currently believe they will incur a second judgement for their sins from God when to my knowledge we are only judged once. ha

Again, please be sure to listen to all four messages as this book is the most complete picture of the rapture event that I have read thus far. This message represents the light that I am moving in at this current time so if I do another message on 10-raptures you can be assured that I will support that claim with scripture leaving the decision as to whether to believe it or not in your hands.

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Up front reminder to send these messages out to your friends and those in whom you might be ministering or discipling. Let’s work together as many hands make light work. We are currently in 125 countries which represent 64% of the planet. But this isn’t the whole picture. We are over 8-billion people on this planet and so the laborers of the harvest are needed, and that means you are qualified and empowered to minister to the lost. The goal I set for myself when I was a Christian just about 2-yrs in was that 3.5 billion people would hear the gospel through whatever ministry that God would give me whenever He would give it to me. No doubt He did not expect that I would work alone. Every listener is a servant of the most High God who paid a price for our sin debt that no one else could have paid to rescue us from eternal separation from hell. Nope, not trying to spook you as if you think about how great this is, you would not fear eternity but desire that He would return quickly and wrap things up. He won’t do it until there us unity in the body of believers. The 4th rapture which is the church will take place before the antichrist is revealed. Now how excited should we be to get on with things down here? The bride makes herself ready:

Rev 19:7 - Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.”

There is no sadness in that statement so let’s make ourselves and others who belong to Him ready. 

Ok so I was asked a question and it went something like this:

Hey Podcast Preacher can you do a message on the end times? I was asked at the workshop that I am teaching titled, “Workshop for Equipping and Activation.” I stated to the person that I had quite a few messages on the end times, but then felt in my spirit that this person was activating me. So who is activating who ha.

So I stated I would do a message on a book that addresses the 7-Raptures. Ha, now don’t go sounding off that you believe there is no such thing. That is precisely what the devil wants you to believe. You see he appeals to your false sense of humility and your ignorance of the scriptures. 

Probably the most used excuse as to why God wouldn’t remove the church, or rather to be more precise and accurate, pull His authentically born-again believers off this planet before the 7-years of tribulation is that He wouldn’t leave the non-believers without Christian help. This is proven a mistake in understanding the scriptures as the Holy Spirit will be here as well as the 144,000 Jewish evangelists. But besides that they had the chance to hear the gospel message, in fact more so today than at any other time in history, so to hold them blameless or unaccountable for that decision is taking matters into your own hands and trying to convince a God who is defined as love, that He cannot simply pass judgement upon a rebellious society. I would ask where were you when the flood waters came and took out the entire population of the world but 8-souls. Look at how Abraham was negotiation with the Lord regarding Sodom and Gomorrah. God will never be accused of not doing everything in His power to save mankind. I Have also found that many people who hold to this deception don’t do much in winning souls. 

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So you know that I like cars and so I have come up with a car analogy to talk about something that has just occurred to me which is if I don’t explain it, it could lead to error and too much focus on the one thing that actually is to lead us to the more important thing. Let’s see if I can straighten this thing out so that it makes some sense.

Back in the day when I would be driving my 1969 VW around, sometimes the starter wouldn’t work. And if it was in between paychecks it was possible for the starter to go completely out without having any means to fix it. At 2.20 bucks an hour part time it would take some time to come up with those funds. And so but because the car was a stick shift and light I could simply get by pushing it. Now this doesn’t mean that I wasn’t strategic when looking for a parking space. Nope, shade wasn’t the primary objective, nor getting close to my destination. Downhill parking was premium for my VW.

Now although it might be necessary to push start your VW Bug, it doesn't mean that is the whole point of driving down the road right? Unless you get the starter fixed a pushing you will go. But the destination is a primary factor along with where to park.

Now this VW Bug story is the same message as is when I constantly talk about operating with miracles, signs, and wonders in your ministry. And yes this is assuming you all know that you are all called into the ministry as we all have been, at a minimum, been called into the ministry of reconciliation which is in part fulfilled by preaching the gospel in power:

2 Cor 5:18-19 - Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Mark 16:15-20 - 15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.

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The following is a little story that I took out of a book titled, “Sodom Had No Bible” written by Leonard Ravenhill.

I've read about it before in other books but since his is the last book that I saw it in I thought I would give him the credit for at least putting it in his book. 

But it did spark something in me when I read it, umm and well, actually it probably wouldn't have as much have I not also been reading a book titled heavy rain written by Chris Vallotton. His book was more about how to actually be a part of a Christian Church that changes its community. He attends Bethel Church in Redding CA and that is exactly what they are trying to do. But this message is not about that book, it is about the fruit that we leave behind after we die.

I believe many of us don't think about this thing, and what we achieve in this lifetime and or set our hearts to achieve would tell us that we're really more concerned about living the best life that we can so that we are good with God, but outside of that we don't expend a lot of effort. As Kris stated in his book we tend to focus more on hell than we do on just trying to make things better while living on earth which if you've ever read your Bible and if we're walking in all those things that Jesus said we could walk in that's exactly what would happen is that we would make this a better earth.

John 15:16 - 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

If we look at the bible examples we see how James, John, Peter, Paul and Jesus as well as many others left, so far, a near 2000-year old legacy or harvest of work. Put plainerly, the preaching and other supernatural works that they did are still producing fruit well long after they stopped their work with the exception of Jesus. 

Now lets look at that scripture again from that perspective:

John 15:16 - 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

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The Pharisees helped Jesus preach. Oh yes we know that they thought that they knew what they were doing, but it’s what they didn’t know, that we are going to share for a minute so that if your are inclined to go out and preach the gospel and you meet up with some resistance, you will have an ace in your back pocket and be able to use the situation so that the resistors themselves preach for you. 

So I get up, get my coffee, and boom message. Now I share this with you because when God turns your anointing on and releases you to go and operate in your calling and purpose, you too should expect things to work out similarly.

I seems as though I could fall down these days and get three messages on the way down and two when I hit. It is the strangest thing ever, and yet I wouldn’t want it any other way. And how do I know it is God and not just some hidden talent of communication that was released when I bumped my head or something a long time ago? Nope, communication is not my natural strength be it in writing or in speaking. In fact, everything that I am doing I am doing it in the power of Gods anointing. 

There is a funny turn about that may be helpful for those of you who have yet discovered a demonic strategy to try and keep you from moving in the things of the kingdom of God.

Between Jr high and high school I got 5-D’s and 2-F’s. The courses that those grades applied were English, Government, and History. I barely graduated high school due to the 3-D’s and 2-F’s in my senior year. In my life, looking back over 63-years, it is funny to see what changes took place in that I worked in Government for 30-years, am a bible teacher and love to read about history, and have this Podcast which requires me to speak as well as write. I have also written 8-books of which will get published in the right season. Now besides the fact that this proves that our academic system is not a good measure of a persons destiny or of their strengths, this strange turn of events occurred because of one thing occurring in my life. 

The devil will attach the gifts on your life, so in a strange way what you don’t seem to excel in God, once you surrender to Him, turns things around and exposes the strategies of the devil. 

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So poof, 4:am rolls around and my head starts thinking about some friends I know who are in a particular situation in life, and as I was thinking about the difficulties in their relationship, it suddenly dawned on me that there is a dynamic in the concept of reality of this thing we call victory and but it often results in anything but victory.  

And as I pondered this new thought, I saw a parallel event, aside from my initial thoughts regarding my friend and his marriage and the difficulties he was in, in the story about God and His Son.

I saw for the first time, a pain that was greater than the pain of the cross. Oh it was a pain greater than the decimation described in the book of Isaiah, of this One Mans Spirit and soul as He became our sin and took on our curses through the merciless marring of His Spirit and soul:

Is 52:14 - Just as many were astonished at you,
So His visage was marred more than any man,
And His form more than the sons of men;

2 Cor 5:21 - For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Gal 3:13 - 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),

What would have happened to the man who became sin? He being perfect actually became our sin, was exposed to the satanic hoard waiting for Him in hell, as now He is touchable by the demon hordes because He is now covered in all the sins of the world. What would you imagine, if it were possible, that satan and his deminions would do to Jesus spirit and soul now that they have a legal right to touch Him?

Well, considering that let’s move on.

Let us not depart from this thought and let us look deeper at a pain that is near unimaginable. A pain greater than bearing the sins of the world. Greater than what is described in Isaiah. Oh yes a pain greater than becoming every curse relegated to mankind in payment for committing sin. Which by the way created a separation, like what an earthquake does, which may be why the earth quaked at His separation. 

But because we loved our sins we could not fathom the depths of the greater pain incurred by the One in whom had created us in His image and in His likeness. A pain greater than incurring the demonic crushing of His Spirit and soul. Now yes His Spirit was in the hands of His Father, but His soul was not. It was in the teeth and fangs of satan. Now let’s look again at Isaiah given this further description:

Is 52:14 - Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men;

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What? Yup, just another made up word from my short list of vocabulary words. Well maybe not made up but definitely D-Com has no definition for it.

 What it means to me is that there is a strategy in place in these very days orchestrated by the devil and carried out by the demons to cause you to question God and everything he says or does or well maybe just one thing as a little leaven leavens the whole lump (1 Cor 5:6). 

We want an example podcast preacher. Let's go to the beginning. 

Gen 3:1-7 - 3 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

If you think that Satan has changed his strategies, you have spent too much time on the moon. When the Catholic Church went sideways, and Martin Luther asked them for clarification on 95 points of this new doctrine that they decided to add to the scriptures, they simply got the people to question the validity of what he was asking. This in turn made it easy to inject accusations against the authentically born-again Christians resulting in about 65 to over 100 million being extinguished because they were accused as being heretics by the church. Ok I know let’s see a D-Com manifestation Podcast Preacher as we don’t even use that word in these our days - 

Heretic:

1. a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by their church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.

Synonyms: Protestant, backslider, apostate

1. Roman Catholic Church., a baptized Roman Catholic who willfully and persistently rejects any article of faith.
2. anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle.

Synonyms: freethinker, skeptic, dissenter

Oh boy so anyone who doesn’t believe in the totality of the bible? Nope, it states believe as the church and I would say that the church of the day was as considered by all people, believers or not, as the Catholic church because well the catholic church told them that they were and if you didn’t believe them then you could believe them in the face of fear that you might be labeled as a heretic because of non-submittal. No where does it address a conflict with the bible or in Jesus. 

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