On Eagles’ Wings

True Christians are called to be a people who boldly believe and teach the testimony of Christ, who said, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth, Go therefore and make disciples of all nations...teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you" (Matt. 28:18-20). Christians are to teach what Christ taught, which includes the "resurrection of the just and the unjust" (John 5:28-29), at "the last day" (John 6:40, 44, 54), "Immediately after the tribulation" (Matt. 24:29-31). But in about AD 1830 the church exchanged the truth of Christ for the false epiphany of John Darby who embedded the pre-trib rapture into the church, which silences the testimony of Jesus though "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy" (Rev. 19:10). Ancient Israel is our example of unbelief. When ancient Israel was on the cusp of inheriting their Promised Land, they rebelled and fell into unbelief, and that generation aged twenty years and older perished in the wilderness. And later, upon their repeated, unrepentant rebellion, unbelief and idolatry, God gave Israel "a certificate of divorce" (Jer. 3:8). And we must remember that God does not change, Mal. 3:6 and Heb. 13:8. What God did before, He will do again. God warns us not to follow the unbelieving example of ancient Israel, saying, "Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come" (1 Cor. 10:11). Five-sixth of the house of Israel was rejected from gaining their otherwise intended inheritance because they saw giants in the land, Num. 13 and 14, causing Israel to rebel in unbelief. And God's wrath broke out against all those who rebelled. The majority perished, but the minority inherited their Promised Land, Canaan. That entire account is a clear example for believers as we also are about to inherit our eternal possession with Christ, but those who don't believe the testimony of Jesus have rebelled, like Israel, and will likely fall into offense, hatred, and betrayal one of another, just as Jesus taught at Matt. 24:10. An applicable Scripture repeated often in this book says, "That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, 'See, this is new?' It has already been in ancient times before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come by those who will come after" (Eccl. 1:9-11). Rather than fearing the giants and turning in rebellion against God, had all Israel believed God, as did Joshua and Caleb, the minority, then all Israel would have entered their Promised Land, but "we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief" (Heb. 3:19). And if present-day believers don't believe and prepare in the testimony of God in Christ, they too stand a strong chance of being excluded, as were the five foolish virgins of Matt. 25:1-13. Rather than fearing the tribulation, Christians need to know that God has a place of safety and provision for His true watchful and prepared believers "counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass" (Luke 21:36), for the last 1,260 days of what Jesus called "great tribulation" (Matt. 24:25), the last 3 1/2 years of this present age when Antichrist issues his "mark of the beast" (Rev. 13:16-17). This book reveals God's safety and provision for those believers who actually believe Him. The organized church has over emphasized the "love" of God without providing the balance of all God's attributes. For example, John 3:16 says that "whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life". But the truth is that to effectively believe "in" Him, means to actually "believe" Him. Twenty verses later the Spirit said, "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him". To properly inform our understanding of God's nature, those two verses compliment each other and bring balanced truth. Another biblical warning repeated in this book is one that the Spirit brings forward from the Old Testament and is preached by Peter in the New Testament saying, "For Moses truly said , 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet [Christ] like me from among your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people" (Acts 3:22-23). As it is now, most Western professing Christians, largely do not "hear that Prophet" regarding His testimony of the end-times and resurrection rapture of believers. The church needs to wake up from its unbelief. Time to prepare is short, and the urgency of our time is understated. This book will prepare you for the 7-year tribulation just ahead.