The FIRST Resurrection of the Dead

Foretelling the events surrounding Christ’s 2nd Coming (Armageddon, Antichrist and false prophet’s demise, fowls filled with flesh, Devil cast into the bottomless pit, etc.) the Apostle John wrote: “ … and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the FIRST resurrection” (The Revelation 20:4-5).

Hmmm … so the FIRST resurrection of the dead will include believers who lived DURING the final 3½ year period of the Great Tribulation and were martyred for their faith in Christ and for refusing to take the Antichrist’s mark!  Isn’t that interesting?

But today, mainstream churchianity teaches its congregants a rapture (resurrection of the dead) will occur BEFORE the Great Tribulation!!!  Oh, really?  So what resurrection number is that then?  Number zero?  Or can't God count properly?  Is God deceived or is mainstream churchianity deceived?

Come on people … WAKE UP!!!  There is NO resurrection (or rapture) that will occur BEFORE the Great Tribulation!  That fairy tale is a lie from Satan!  The rapture of the believers will occur exactly when Jesus said it will, “immediately AFTER the tribulation of those days” at the sound of the last trump.  Yes, even those beheaded for the testimony of Christ during the Great Tribulation will take part in the one and only rapture of the believers, the FIRST resurrection of the dead.



Speaking Truth no matter the cost,

Gabriel

Approximately 903 Weeks (Sabbaths) Remaining Till Christ's Return!

The Fig Tree (Israel) is 63!

After being asked ‘what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world’ by his disciples, Jesus finished a long list of things (which ended with a description of his rapturous return in the clouds immediately AFTER the Great Tribulation) with a parable: “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, THIS generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled” (Matthew 24:32-34).

What generation!  What was Christ talking about?  How was mankind to know WHEN this final generation of people existed?  The answer was hidden in the meaning of his parable … for God referred to the nation of Israel as a ‘fig tree’ several times in Scripture; thus, mankind was to understand from Christ’s words that when they SEE the ‘fig tree” put forth his leaves (Israel become a nation again!) THAT generation of people would not all die until 'ALL THINGS' were fulfilled.

Well, on May 15, 1948, Israel amazingly became a nation again and the final generation of people had been born!  Tomorrow is Sunday May 15, 2011 and Israel (and the final generation of people) will turn 63 years old.  Now listen to the words God used to describe the length of a generation of people: “The days of our years are threescore years and ten (70); and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years (80), yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and WE FLY AWAY” (Psalms 90:10).

And we “fly away” after 80 years!  Is this clandestine rapture (post trib) prophecy in the Old Testament???  Israel will turn 80 years old (and the final generation of people) on May 15, 2028.  A few months later in the fall will arrive the Lord’s Feast of Trumpets, the feast (appointed time) known in ancient Judaism as ‘the day no one knew the day or hour of’ because it was the only feast day to occur at the phase of a new moon, which couldn’t be determined until 2 witnesses saw the first sliver of the new moon!  Will AD 2028 see mankind's 6,000 year on Earth, confirming AD 28 saw mankind's 4,000 year on Earth?  Time will tell.



Here’s a link to a short video describing the ‘fig tree’ today, notice the average lifespan of an Israeli at the 1:52 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNhDdVYFRVk




Happy Birthday Israel,

Gabriel

Approximately 904 Weeks (Sabbaths) Remaining Till Christ's Return!

I Found Jesus on a Friday (Sabbath) Night

At 11pm last night, Central Standard Time, Friday May 6, 2011, I celebrated the sixth anniversary of my deceased father’s shadowed profile miraculously appearing on my refrigerator door on the night of Friday May 6, 2005.  (The 6th of May was also the day my father was physically born in the year 1943.)  This is the first time May 6 has fallen on a Friday again in the last 6 years, making the 11 pm hour extra special because it is part of God’s weekly Holy Sabbath day, which always begins Friday at sundown.

The moment my eyes beheld my dad’s profiled face that Friday evening in 2005 was the moment my life would forever change.  A willful wicked sinner, who had no desire for God or His Word, would be transformed into a servant of the Most High.  Oh, I did not have ANY clue that night of God’s plans for my life (to deliver to me a stunning message into the true meaning of the Bible on Dec 8, 2007 and over the next several months the prophetic Biblical knowledge into the “timing” of Christ’s return, to ask me to quit my job in Feb of 2008 to write & publish a 400 page book on what He revealed to me, to learn how and create a website for the book in 2010, to create videos for YouTube to further help explain the message, and now this blog) or I probably would have passed out!  But I sure know God’s plans now, for I have been faithfully doing them for the past 6 years.

A few years after my father died in 1992 I recorded my first album; it was Christian country and I had penned all 10 songs.  Well, just recently God brought a song on that album to my attention to show me how He had secretly prophesied of His plans for my life way back then in the lyrics of that song!  I was stunned (as He always does to me!) to have not seen this before, but here’s the lyrics to the song "New Man":


Verse I
The weekend had come and I was on the run
Looking to find me a date
I needed someone and I needed some fun
But instead I had a meeting with fate
As I went downtown just to look around
My eyes they fell on a church
And there was a sign hanging there from a pine
Saying, ‘Jesus can take away the hurt’

Verse II
Something from within seemed to draw me in
And I sat on the very last pew
People were singing and there were tambourines ringing
So I decided to join in too
It didn’t take long and I knew the song
And I was singing at the top of my lungs
Then Jesus came in and took away all my sins
And left me speaking in some foreign tongue

Chorus
I found Jesus on a Friday night
Ever since then He’s changed my life
He took away the old man, He brought in the new
Ever since then life’s had a different view
Now I pray nearly all the time
Everything I do just seems to work out fine
He’s the best thing that ever happened to me
For once I was blind, but now I can see

Verse III
Soon I was teaching and spirit filled preaching
On stations on the radio
And people were believing and people were receiving
The message that I told
Next came the TV and people could see me
Crying, ‘Church give up your life!’
But I’ll never forget that night that I met
My Jesus on a Friday night

© 1994 Album "I Told You So"




Blessings to you in Christ Jesus,

Gabriel

P.S. And just for the record folks ... it ain't about me! God has done these miraculous things in my life just so YOU would have further reason and impetus to want to investigate and believe the message He has spoken through me.

Approximately 905 Weeks (Sabbaths) Remaining Till Christ's Return!

Secret Prophetic Message in the Transfiguration

One day Jesus told his disciples, “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works” (Matthew 16:27).  Obviously, Christ was alluding to his Second Coming through use of these words.  But then with his next breath, he says, “Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom” (Matthew 16:28).  And with those words Matthew chapter 16 ends!  How strange, huh?  What did Christ mean by this? Certainly there weren’t disciples listening to Jesus speak who were going to live on Earth all the way up until his return!

The answer to the riddle is in what happened next, written about in the very next chapter: “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light” (Matthew 17:1-2).  See, Peter, James, and John were who Jesus was speaking about in Matthew chapter 16, for they were now getting to witness Jesus the way he will look on the day he returns, shining like the burning sun in his glorious spiritual body!  In other words, they got to see him the way he will look “coming in his kingdom”.

So what’s the secret prophetic message in this miraculous story?  Look at the first 4 words that begin Matthew chapter 17, “And AFTER 6 DAYS…”  And WHEN will Jesus Christ return to Earth, coming in his kingdom in the clouds with great glory, rewarding each person for their works and transfiguring all the resurrected righteous?  That’s right, my friend … AFTER 6 DAYS (6,000 years)!!!  And now you know…the ‘rest of the story’.



Blessings to you this Holy Season,

Gabriel

Approximately 907 Weeks (Sabbaths) Remaining Till Christ's Return!

The Passover

Around 3300 years ago the Israelites were enduring their 400th year of bondage (separation from the Promised Land) in Egypt. But God had informed them through a man named Moses that He ‘heard their cries and knew their sorrows’ and that He was coming down to deliver them that year!

Curiously, God picked a specific night for the deliverance event; it was to be the full moon night of Nissan 14. (Jewish months are lunar based, so the 14th always falls on the full moon.) On that night, God was going to send a death angel around to kill all the firstborn in Egypt, after which Pharaoh would free the Israelites.

But to save the Israelites from the death angel (and ultimately deliver them out of bondage) God devised a seemingly strange, yet very exact, plan for them to employ in order that the death angel would pass over without killing any of them…the Israelites were to choose a male, non-blemished lamb on the 10th of Nissan, kill it on the evening of the 14th of Nissan without breaking a bone in its body, spread its blood on the doorposts of their houses, and then roast its flesh with fire and eat it that night in their houses. How weird, huh? What on Earth was God thinking coming up with this 'crazy' plan? Does the Creator God just like to invent specific things for His children to do without any rhyme or reason?

Well, a little over 1300 years later, the amazing truth behind the yearly commemorated Passover night was revealed. For on a Passover night (the 14th of Nissan) the sinless (non-blemished) man (male) Jesus ate the Passover meal with his disciples, was captured later that evening in the Garden of Gethsemane, tried and convicted in the morning hours, and crucified (killed) without a bone in his body being broken later that day. In so doing, he precisely fulfilled every detail of God’s Israelite Passover lamb and became mankind’s sacrificial Passover Lamb, whose blood delivered us from our bondage to sin and death. Stunningly, and little known, Jesus even fulfilled God’s secret prophetic timing detail to deliver the Israelites out of bondage after 400 years by dying on the cross during mankind’s 4,000 year, and he will most certainly return to Earth during mankind's 6,000 year!

Passover (the 14th of Nissan) arrives at sundown Sunday, April 17, this year. If it’s a clear night in your area, maybe you could walk outside and look up at the full moon and spend a little time remembering the Israelites’ Passover night in Egypt and then Jesus’ Passover night in Jerusalem. Maybe you could remember the hell Christ went through that night and all the next day in order to make “forgiveness for sins (eternal life)” available to you. And maybe you could breathe a little prayer of thankfulness to God for what he's done.

Happy Passover,

Gabriel

A Wonderful Sabbath Truth

I must confess I wrote last week's post mainly to set you up for the awesome truth I now wish to reveal to you; thus, I desired for you to possess ironclad proof one of Jesus’ miracles, as recorded in the Bible, had meaning (or a message) behind it.  Logical deduction should then tell you the "feeding of the 5,000" could not have been the only miracle Jesus performed with an intent to also teach people something.

In the Gospels, you will encounter a running theme of Jesus healing people on the Sabbath day.  You’d almost think he desired to make people whole on that day more than any other.  Well, if you’ve read my book, it probably just hit you … HE DID! Because EVERY ONE of those miracles was heralding the exciting prophetic message that it would be at the start of mankind’s 7th millennial day on Earth (year 6,000) when God would “make whole” ALL the raptured righteous as they received their new glorified bodies!!!

Yes, on THAT day (known as the Lord’s Day, or the Sabbath Day) the lame will leap, the dumb will speak, the blind will see, and the deaf will hear!  Hallelujah!!!  It is what ALL of planet Earth has been waiting for ever since the fall of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden, the regeneration of planet Earth back into its rightful glorious paradise and the final redemption of mankind’s souls back into their painless, tearless, and labor-less bodies!  Oh, the INCREDIBLE and AWESOME meaning behind Christ’s Sabbath day miracles is breathtaking to perceive.

And yet, here’s the shocking and sad irony behind it all; it was largely because of Jesus’ Sabbath day miracles that the established church leaders of his day utterly DESPISED him and sought to kill him!  Isn’t it startling, the blindness 'church' leaders can be in?

Happy Sabbath,

Gabriel

Approximately 909 Weeks (Sabbaths) Remaining Till Christ's Return!

Did Christ's Miracles have Meaning?

Most people think God performed miracles through Jesus just to show (or help prove to) people that he was indeed of Him.  While this is definitely true, they were in fact a WHOLE lot more! Amazingly, most of the miracles Jesus performed (at least the ones God intended to be recorded in the Gospels) had a message behind them.  In other words, they were intended to teach people something.

Take for instance, the miracle of the ‘feeding of the 5,000’ … the people who were fed came looking for Jesus the next day, but Jesus realized WHY they came looking for him and rebuked them for not understanding his miracle the previous day, “Ye seek me, not because ye SAW the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled” (John 6:26).  The English word “saw” was translated from the original Greek word “eidō” meaning: to understand; to recognize, realize, to come to know.

Jesus then explained the meaning behind his miracle to them, “Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life” (John 6:27).  Ah, do you get it?  The people were all pumped up because Christ had provided them with food to eat the previous day, and THAT is why they came looking for him the next day.  They had failed to recognize the meaning behind Christ’s miracle, which was shouting (and I’m paraphrasing), “Food is just dirt (materialistic), thus it is nearly worthless, and I’m going to prove it to you by showing you how easily I can provide you with it (bring it into being) right now.  Rather, I want you to desire GOD’S WORDS!  Hunger and thirst for THEM!  For that is the real, valuable, spiritual food, that if you eat it (DO IT) will sustain your soul forever (obtain you eternal life)!”

See, Jesus possessed those “life-giving” words, and he spoke them continually: They are the WORDS of GOD (Love), teaching people to obey the 10 Love Commandments.  This is what Jesus wished the people he had fed the previous day were now ‘seeking him’ to hear. But it just wasn’t so!  How about you?

Blessings to you in Christ Jesus,

Gabriel

Approximately 910 Weeks (Sabbaths) Remaining Till Christ's Return!