If I am an expert on anything, it is waiting on the Lord.
The year was 1971 and I was 12 years old. The Lord spoke to me in Phoenix, Arizona as I came out of our Vacation Bible School class saying, “Why was Jesus’ ministry only 3½ years?”
Though I waited for the answer to that question for nearly 34 years I consistently asked Pastors, scholars and Theologians to no effect.
No one I encountered seemed to know the answer to that question until the Lord shared His answer with me shortly after I began the book, “This Side of the Whirlwind, The Coming Apocalypse.” Continue reading →
Hey everybody, welcome back to This Side of the Whirlwind’s blog on the End Times, the Great Consummation or Great Tribulation as most label it.
I did tell you guys why I changed the name, right?
Because the mistaken Pre-Tribulation teaching common referred to as the Great Consummation doctrine is littered with Biblical errors or twisted scripture or worse yet, utterly ignored sections of scripture. Hard to believe, I know, but such is the truth.
Not my truth… the Bible’s truth.
Many of the most powerful errors, those which make the Pre, Mid and Post-Tribulation Rapture Doctrines impossible have been outlined in detail in my book, “This Side of the Whirlwind, The Coming Apocalypse.”
You can also find many of these errors outlined in many of my blogs dealing with prophecy and such.
This Side of the Whirlwind is a prophetic message given by God during these last days of the Church Age. Though we are not yet there, the World will soon enter a period which is most often and egregiously portrayed as the seven years of the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation or seven years of judgment is represented as a period solely dedicated by God for bringing judgment, God’s Wrath on a sinful and rebellious world.
This Side of the Whirlwind reveals the numerous errors in the Great Tribulation Rapture doctrines as well as negating the false teachings of Preterism, A-Millennialism. Continue reading →
Warning, there is graphic video materials within this blog. Watch at your own risk!
Most often when Believers think of being in the center of “God’s will” we think of a picturesque and ideal scenario playing out with God using us to preach the gospel, minister in Christian music, feed the hungry, comfort the sick or any number of other ministry related endeavors.
But the question is…
Is that all there is to being in “God’s will”?
For individuals to reside in the middle of “God’s will” does not always mean we are moving in ministry, or a loving family life or even a singular walk with God.
When thinking about “God’s will,” consider how the nation of Israel actually existed in the middle of “God’s will” during their 400 year sojourn with the Egyptians beginning with the time of Joseph and extending through the days of the Israeli Exodus.
(On that note: check out this Docu/movie http://patternsofevidence.com/ which sets straight some of the erroneous data which has been circulating/perpetrated in promoting the idea Israel’s exodus from Egypt was merely or mostly a grand metaphor.) Not a real exodus; poppycock!
At first the Israelites may have been welcomed, befriended or even nurtured, but somewhere in that 400 plus year sojourn the Israelites became the subpopulation enslaved by the Egyptians in accordance with “God’s will”.
Check out this passage from Genesis 15: 13-16
Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
God certainly is impressive, isn’t He?
Those Israelites who lived during that period of slavery we right in the middle of God’s will. It was all in God’s plan to create a scenario where the Jews would need a Deliverer. You know, Moses.
How many Israelites lived extremely difficult lives while they were perfectly in the center of God’s plans for the Israelites? True answer… many, many and many!
Now, let’s look to King David. Here is a person who spent many challenging years even while living most of his life following God. Scripture says he was a man after God’s own heart.
And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will. (Acts 13:21-22 NKJV)
David spent a great deal of time being pursued by King Saul. I’m not sure of the exact timeline but it was substantial. Do you think the future King David felt he was being blessed for walking in “God’s will”? Off and on I’d imagine, he was not sure but walked in faith.
And let us not forget the Apostle Paul. Wow, that man’s life was riddled with challenges as he brought the salvation message to the Gentiles. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 11:23-29:
I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness— besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation? (NKJV)
Lastly I’ll bring up the Jews of the Holocaust of WWII. What needs to be said there is this…
WARNING — WARNING — WARNING
The following video contains “Graphic Material!”
Watch at your own risk!
WARNING — WARNING — WARNING
The Holocaust of WWII was the prophetic fulfillment of Jacob’s Trouble written about in Jeremiah 30:1-24. There is no doubt! Every element was fulfilled in gruesome detail and is still being fulfilled at this very moment. For a more detailed explanation of Jacob’s Trouble and its fulfillment check out, “This Side of the Whirlwind, The Coming Apocalypse,” chapters 12 and 14. Both sections provide enough information and evidence to confirm that the Holocaust was Jacob’s Trouble. By the way, the prophecy will continue its fulfillment into the Millennial Reign.
Okay, here is why I bring up these not so friendly topics.
We are living in the Latter Days. This is not in question. Israel has been/is repeatedly prophesied to reemerge as a sovereign state on the lands of their forefathers and with its religious identity intact following Jacob’s Trouble. Bingo! This is what has happened.
“We know” from prophecies fulfilled that we are in the Latter Days and during the Great Consummation nearly two-thirds of all Christians will be killed or martyred.
“We know” the Parable of the Fig Tree found in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 takes place during the Latter Days when Israel is reborn as a nation and begins to grow into the nation it has and is becoming today.
“We know” the generation of the Latter Days will usher in the fulfillment of the last half of the Seventieth Week of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27.
“We know” the Great Tribulation or more appropriately the Great Consummation will span 3½ years and bring to fulfillment the Second half of Christ’s Covenant and the separation and Judgment portions of the covenant. Read the book, “This Side of the Whirlwind, The Coming Apocalypse” for more details.
“We know” from the Parable of the Fig Tree that the Latter Days generation as a whole cannot die off before all End Times prophecies have been completed and Christ returns for the Body of Christ.
“We know” the Mark of the Beast already exists and is being deployed throughout this world. How long before it becomes mandatory only God knows.
I could go on and on with the things “We know” are taking place and fulfilling prophecies and bringing the Time of the Gentiles or Church Age to its close.
So we are in the Latter Days and about to face global persecution of Christians everywhere.
We are about to be forced to “Receive or Reject” the Mark of the Beast one way or another.
Soon enough the Beast/Anti-Christ will launch a global war on Christianity and the Jews.
When “The Mark” is in full swing Christians “will not” be able to purchase anything for survival or otherwise, period!
The system will change in such a way as to exclude anyone without “The Mark.”
And I tell you this… These things will happen while we are living in the middle, the center of God’s awesome and deliberate WILL.
Why? Because we are living during the completion or fulfillment of Christ’s Covenant found in Daniel 9:24-27.
This is why the scripture tells us repeatedly, more than 10 times:
THEY THAT OVERCOME TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED!
So hang in there, trust God’s plan. It will get tough but God has a reason for everything we must enjoy and endure.
Refuse any technology which even resembles the idea of the Mark of the Beast.
Remain faithful in the Lord and prepare to take flight to some wilderness, forested weigh-station, bugout point where you can live out as many days here on earth serving our God and fellow Believers as possible.
Remain faithful while you prepare for your wilderness journey.
Hey, if Moses and his people could do it without all the tech and knowledge we have today it should be a breeze for us modern Christians.
Hang in there and trust the Lord knows what He is doing and why!
Hey, before we get started I wanted to mention I may have written this article before. I found it among my drafts and could not find a counterpart or completed version. So if I’ve repeated this article you or someone you know likely needed to read it again. Enjoy! Steve (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!)
I am one of those “oh too fortunate” believers who has known Jesus my entire life. More blessed still, I am a child of God who has heard the Lord’s voice several hundred times with confirmations and 95% fulfillment of all the Lord has shared with others through my life.
The Lord has privileged me with seeing the greater picture (the grand scheme) if you will and I have seldom been in those situations where I lacked the faith to trust the Lord.
This does not mean I have not endured suffering in my life, for who has not? I broke my neck and was bed ridden in 1990, could not hold my own head up for sometime. I live with excessive levels of physical pain and physical issues not worth mentioning.
However, none of these things prepared me to watch my children go through those things our God allows in our lives so they too can learn and grow and rise from glory to glory in the process which grows faithful men and women of God.
In 2002ish the Lord gave me a vision relating to my daughter’s soon coming marriage. It was a horrible vision containing six profound truths which would destroy her marriage.
I shared this vision along with a Word of Knowledge which said my daughter would suffer a dark and difficult period for nearly three years after her divorce. I remember telling them both they did not have to get married; but I knew at that time, sadly I knew they would still push through, because, as they put it, we are in love….
Sure enough, the prophecy came to pass even as the Lord revealed it. The pains of watching my little girl go through these life lessons was considerable.
I watched my daughter and son-in-law withdraw from one another, and then I watched the whole process rip apart my daughter’s longstanding faith.
Knowing the final outcome does not always justify or appease the pain. Trust me when I write, “Hearing from God is often difficult and painful to your life and the lives of those with which you are required to share God’s Word.”
I knew my daughter would recover and yet, her mother and I hurt for her every day during the destruction of her great and joyful hope in her God and her marriage. She too had to find real peace and learn to trust her Savior, Jesus her friend.
After all, trusting the Lord is the only place real-genuine-longstanding peace comes from. (By the way, real and genuine peace are separate and distinct.)
True peace comes from knowing and trusting that Jesus loves you and keeps you and causes ALL things great and small to work together for good to those who love the Lord and are called according to His (God’s) purpose.
My daughter needed to re-learn this principle. Quite often head-knowledge is insufficient and requires us to grow in heart knowledge; that place in your being that knows beyond question something is true.
My son went through a similar learning process -though it was over very different means- just two years ago.
Unfortunately, some believers need to endure this process repeatedly because they mistakenly believe Christians are not to endure great suffering; foolish I know. Fortunately this does not appear to be the case with my children.
The way we learn “longsuffering” is to suffer-long or greatly for an extended period.
So here is the big pitch to this piece:
There is a grand scheme to God’s creation and it is procreation by the Creator. We are the offspring of the Living God. Adopted for sure, nevertheless the children of the Creator! Wow, I know, that’s huge.
Here is how the grand scheme plays out in quick overview:
Lucifer and the fallen angels were created to bring balance to our universe/world so humanity could fall from innocence.
Then Adam was destined to sin so humanity would need a Savior.
Later, Moses brought the Laws of God so we could know sin, for without the law sin is dead – moot (Romans 7:8) and thus the Sabbatical Laws were born.
Based on those Sabbatical laws Israel was found guilty of sinning for 490 years by not allowing their lands their rests one year every seven; therefore, the Israelites were required to go into captivity in Babylon for seventy years to adhere to the Sabbatical requirements of that law. Of course God established these laws and allowed these circumstances to take place to serve this purpose among others.
Daniel, who has now been captive in Babylon for nearly seventy years, has learned of God’s plans visa-vi the books of Chronicles and was then given by the angel Gabriel the Seventy Weeks of Daniel prophecy. The prophecy set the stage for Christ’s seven years of covenant and included all of the elements and requirements necessary to save humanity from their natural sinful state. What an amazing prophecy, I know!
King Cyrus was called out by name through a prophecy given 174 years earlier and then gave the command for the Jews to return to the Promised Lands; then Jerusalem the Temple and the walls were rebuilt; and from BC 538 to BC 3 the 7 weeks and 62 weeks elements of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel prophecy were fulfilled. Creepy cool, I know that too!
And that… is when Jesus was born in Bethlehem; in approximately BC 3 fulfilling the prophecy and the Micah 5:1-2 prophecy which has far reaching implications.
Thirty years later the Son of God is anointed by God through John the Baptist’s ministry and Jesus then begins the first half of the seven year Covenant of Jesus Christ to save humanity. The first half equaling 3½ years.
Now, here we are, children of the Living God, waiting for the final half of the covenant which will also span 3½ years. This half of the covenant is or will be called the Great Consummation also thought of as the great completion.
And today… the world is on the threshold of entering the Great Consummation starting with the 2½ years of the Tribulation Period .
Jesus brought the first half of the covenant during His ministry of 3½ years. This first half of the covenant was the blessing half of the contract: i.e. If you obey me (God) you will receive a life filled with blessings!
The Great Consummation will be the completion of this seven year covenant spanning another 3½ years in the process.
There will be a 2½ year Tribulation Period designed to separate True-Christians (committed Christians) from pseudo-Christians (lukewarm/non-committed Christians).
At the end of the Tribulation Period Jesus will Rapture or resurrect the Saints of God.
Then this 2½ year Tribulation Period will be followed by a One year period for God’s Wrath. Not something anyone wants to experience or be part of, ever!
You see, the universe is all about God’s love for His children, that’s us!
We are the nuclear family of God.
The entire process teaches us and grows us into becoming the individuals God wants us to be as adult Christians.
We are only visitor on this planet and this physical life is extremely temporary.
God loves us so much He has been working towards our gathering together to be with Him for a very, very, very-very-very long time.
And still we grow.
Get prepared folks. The Tribulation Period will be extremely difficult for Believers. We will be driven out of our homes and cities and lives into some wilderness, forested or desert areas. We need to get or be ready for that eventuality.
Men and women of God, where do you walk, on what path do you truly live, to whom are you “in truth” devoted?
I sat with the Lord this morning, in prayer, reading from the book of 1 Samuel chapters 2 and 3 when the Lord in His mercy and kindness deigned to touched my heart and soul. I’ll tell you what He revealed to me in a minute.
Anyways…
I read about Eli the Priest, a man committed to serving the LORD; however, Eli let his feelings for his sons cloud his judgment and take precedence over his love and duty for God. Though many may think so or have forgotten such behavior is not acceptable then or now for men and women of God. Continue reading →
Not long ago I spoke/wrote to an old friend who pulled away from her walk with God; leastwise, her walk with Christ. That specific conversation ended with her saying, “I tried the Christian faith and it didn’t really work for me.
Well, believe it or not, I’m not one to cram anything down another person’s proverbial throat, most of all, my faith. I choose to live my walk with Jesus as much as I talk or write about it but that is my choice; leastwise, I do the best I can and leave God to handle all my sins, you know, all the rest my life’s issues. Thank You Jesus! Glad I’m saved by the blood of the Lamb (sacrifice of Christ) and not by my own righteousness.
Reason for these thoughts: If God gave me the freedom of choice to accept or reject the sacrifice His Son made for my eternal soul and life who am I to deny that same freedom of choice to anyone else, period, exclamation point “?”
As far as I’m concerned that attitude should reside in every Christian’s way of thinking and looking at the salvation message for another. We are to plant the seeds and let God produce the increase. Even in that process God is at the head of the curve. If we are free to choose why aren’t they? Continue reading →
Not a lack of nervousness, or a sense of general harmony; rather, true, deep down, inner peace which transcends all the struggles of life, the sorrows of failure the pains of being undone in our everyday relationships.
In other words, real deep in the bone-marrow peace! Do YOU know that peace? Have you found that place to be a part of your everyday?
Can you feel such true peace in your soul even when the world around you collides with chaos?
Would you like to know that peace if you haven’t found it so far? Well, let me share… Continue reading →
If your answer is yes, then from where do you get your resources?
If you have not been fed by the Word of God or walked with the Lord in prayer this day from where do you bring that genuine food of the Lord?
We are neither the source nor the well-spring of the Spirit; rather, we are merely the conduit of His wisdom, mercy, grace, power and forgiveness.
Unless we are being, have been fed in the Lord, from where do we feed others spiritual food and nourishment? After all, we are sent to feed but not from ourselves but from the source?
We are also not the great river of life.
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Revelation 22:1 NKJV)
Out of our bellies can flow great and abundant waters which wash clean and satisfy the human soul; but once again, we are not the source.
“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:38 NKJV)
We must take the time for refreshing, restoring, refilling.
The three “R” can only be truly accomplished when we take time to be in the presence of the Lord, Jesus and fill up on His Word. The Holy Spirit fills us to overflowing and from the overflow we spill God’s love, joy, goodness, mercy and salvation into, onto, through the hearts and lives of Men.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, (Ephesians 5:25-26 NKJV)
Oh to be in the ever lifting, healing and saving presence of our God.
When we experience the presence of God and His love the multitude of our shame in sin is washed away.
When we revel in the presence of our God, true hope and purpose is made clear to our vision and life’s dreams.
What greater, happier place is there to kneel than in the kind presence of our God.
Oh precious Lord, embrace my soul.
For no other can actually, truly touch your soul; not the love of your life, nor your children, or your parents or your closest friend. They may come close, but none but the risen Savior can genuinely commune with you through your deepest soul and being.
Lord, that I and my soul may walk with You in the garden of my heart.
Blessed be the name of the Lord!
If you do not know the Lord, Jesus in a similar fashion to the way I’ve described Him, please contact me and I will be happy to introduce you to our Master and King!
For nearly 40 years of marriage I have watched other couples begin the wonderful journey of marriage only to fall prey to a misplaced desire to be completed by that other person’s relationship or approval or need. We are not completed in married; rather, we become twice in need to become whole and sufficient, because now we have a partner in need too.
Like a love story without a great love or a wick lantern without oil, we are missing a key element, that which brings life and light and warmth and meaning, those thing which are woefully in short supply. We need to know we can never be complete or whole on our own.
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Why? We were created by God to “need” a relationship with Him; we cannot be whole without His love and interaction. God is that missing piece to our puzzle of life.
When we find our sufficiency through a relationship with another person we become akin to an oil-lamp with a wick but no oil. Our sense of completeness burns bright and hot for a short while but before long it simply burns out, sorrowfully leaving us wanting. This is because our need is greater than simple physical need and without the Spirit of God (the oil) fueling our sufficiency we cannot maintain a true state of completeness or wholeness. Like the lamp, we are lacking the key element which makes it possible to perpetuate the burn of love, joy, peace, life in its fullest measure. We are not designed to be whole without a relationship with our Creator. Such is the nature of our human soul. Continue reading →
If I am an expert on anything, it is waiting on the Lord.
This Side of the Whirlwind is a prophetic message given by God during these last days of the Church Age. Though we are not yet there, the World will soon enter a period which is most often and egregiously portrayed as the seven years of the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation or seven years of judgment is represented as a period solely dedicated by God for bringing judgment, God’s Wrath on a sinful and rebellious world.
David spent a great deal of time being pursued by King Saul. I’m not sure of the exact timeline but it was substantial. Do you think the future King David felt he was being blessed for walking in “God’s will”? Off and on I’d imagine, he was not sure but walked in faith.
grow into the nation it has and is becoming today.
