Most of this brochure will target the removal of the wicked. However, it needs to be said first that what God is doing NOW is closing down churches or any other ministry that is not led by His Spirit. God must be very tired of His sheep (us) being misled, hurt, unhealed, and starved for lack of Spirit-led preachers!
When He gets done, all leaders, no matter in what denomination, will ALL be led by God’s Spirit, and we will finally become ONE as Jesus prayed in John 17. There will be such love between all believers that the unbelieving world will see it and want to be in on it. That is going to bring on a worldwide revival. God will be able to move to bring untold millions of people into the Kingdom of God.
We need to get ready to receive the babies! We need to make disciples of these new believers. In the great commission, Jesus did not say in Matt. 28:19-20 to get people saved!! It says to teach or make disciples, and teach them to obey all He taught them.
We must love them and help them to grow up in the ways of God. They may not smell good, or look like you want them to, but you will be filled to overflowing with God’s love for them. If you are led by God’s Spirit, He can use you to help them grow up.
I do not know the timing for the removal of the wicked. I do know that there isn’t going to a tribulation or rapture. I have written other brochures to help you see this. The “one taken” verses are a seek-and- destroy mission. Luke 17:26-37. Vs. 27, “…until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.” Vs. 29 is the same, bad people are destroyed.
God will remove the tares or weeds as in the story in Matt. 13:24- 30. It’s explained in verses 36-43. Please notice it says the tares are removed FIRST, before the good seed. There are a great many verses that say this. Those are in my Rapture brochures. The tares are sons of the devil, committed to him, not merely unsaved.
Imagine you are a kid in the fifth grade. You have received an amazing game from your parents. They have taught you the rules, and how to get the most out of the game. So you invite several of your classmates over to your house to play. But before the others can begin to understand, one of the kids takes over! He thinks he knows a better way, and starts instructing the other kids in his method! And he has trinkets to help. You’re angry, but he’s stronger than you are, and more persuasive too. You try to regain the other kids’ confidence, but you are losing. Now what would be the most sensible thing for your parents to do?
You know the rules, and you are equipped to lead. The most sensible thing to do is to get rid of the bad kid and his stuff! And then your parents would give you more power by telling the kids to listen to you! Well, Jesus gave several stories in Matt. 13: 24-49 that tell about the end of this age, and this is exactly what He is going to do; remove the bad guys, and increase the power in us! Read on and see for yourself.
Joel is quoted in Acts 2:20 about that day, and frankly, it’s a scary picture. But Prov. 3:25-26 tells us to not be afraid of the destruction of the wicked when that time comes, for the Lord will protect us. I’ve found lots of verses that say we will be here and protected when the evil is removed. Here are some: Prov.2:21-22, 10:30, 11:31, 12:7, Psa.21: 8-10, 58:10-11, 37:9-11, 22, 28-29, 34-36, 91:7-8, Isa.13:9, 26:20-21, Mal. 3:16-4:3.
Now let’s see what Joel says about that day. He has a bigger picture. Joel 1:15, “Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.” 2:3-5, fire! 2:11, “The day of the Lord is great and very terrible; who can endure it?” 2:31, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.”
II Pet. 3:7, “But the heavens and the earth … are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and the destruction of ungodly men.”
Heb. 12: 26-28 summarized says God is going to shake the earth and in so doing, remove everything that can be shaken, and then it ends saying that we have a Kingdom that cannot be shaken!
Doesn’t this look like the time when Satan is bound for the 1000 years (Rev. 20:2)? Also, II Thess. 2:7 seems to be referring to this same event; the hinderer being removed. Paul said they knew, and I Thess. 2:18 (his first letter to them) he says it’s Satan.
II Thess. 1:8 -- 10 “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power; when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, … in that day.”
Earlier I said I didn’t know when God will remove very wicked people However, this verse sounds like they will happen together -- glory in the saints, and the removal of the wicked!
In Matt. 24:3, 27, 37, 39, the word coming is actually the word Presence. These are assumed to be His visible coming but are actually referring to a greater degree of His presence in the saints. There are two words used for coming, and you can read that in my brochure, Rapture II.
II Cor. 3:7-11 says that the degree of glory on us is going to be greater than what was on Moses and the tabernacle. In these verses and others, it’s plain that the Glory is that Presence.
Psa. 149:5-9 says that the saints who walk in the glory are the ones who will get to help rid the earth of evil things!
Rom. 8:18-21, “The creation will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
I believe the words glorious liberty are very significant. Glorious because God’s glory is upon the saints (us). And liberty refers to Satan and the demons being removed from the earth. Wouldn’t that be a great and glorious liberty? YES!!
In Daniel 2, God gave a dream to the king, which Daniel interpreted. Read particularly, Dan. 2:35 & 44. That gives us great hope that the world as we know it is about to end. God’s people will be leaders in every nation. Dan. 7:17-18, 27.
In Luke 19:11-19, Jesus began a story, telling what things would be like at the end of this age. The story says three men were each given a bag of money to invest for him. Two of them did well, so were rewarded, giving them authority over 5 and 10 cities. (Government positions!) Rev. 2: 26 says power over the nations!
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