Even though they go to church they shall still "faint for thirst"

Make no mistake about it!

The great day of the Lord shall come upon all "the inhabitants of Jerusalem (Zeph. 1:4)", and "the remnant of Baal (the spurious messiah)", and "those that swear by Malcham, the false king of kings (Zeph. 1:5)", and "them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him (Zeph. 1:6)."

In other words, all those who worship the false messiah, the abomination of desolation, when he appears at the sound of the 6th Trump and sits in the temple claiming that he is Jesus Christ (2 Thes. 2:4), shall feel the cup of our Father's wrath at the sound of the 7th Trump, lest they repent and turn to Him before that great day Jesus Christ returns!

How about you?

Do you study your Father's Word to show yourself approved (2 Tim 2:15)?

In other words, do you enquire of Him through His Word or do you listen to and follow after the traditions of men?

You see, there are many, many Christians who go to church and do good works for their fellow man and who believe the words of their friendly pastors and ministers who tell them that Jesus Christ will return (at any moment) and take them up in the clouds in a "Rapture of the Church".

Then to compound their error of teaching that the 7th Trump occurs before (or at the same time) as the 6th Trump, they tell folks they do not need to seek His Word and study the book of the "unveiling" (Revelation) nor try to understand it.

This they rationalize with their false teaching that we will gather back to Christ and will not be here when the events of the Book of Revelation take place.

Shame on them!

Shame on both the pastors who teach contrary to God's Word and shame on those who listen to them without checking them out in the Word of God.

The apostle Paul made it ever so clear in 2 Thes. 2 that we SHALL NOT gather back to Christ until the son of perdition comes and sits in the temple of God deceiving the whole world through his signs and miracles into believing he is God, the true Messiah.

Haven't you read it?

Read right here in the Word of God exactly how it shall be!

That day shall NOT COME until the son of perdition is revealed which is when Michael, the one who holds him back at this time, steps aside and casts Satan and his angels to this earth (Rev. 12:7-9, Dan. 12:1).

And what will Satan do when he arrives?

The problem is that he is the false messiah, that beautiful cherub (Ezek. 28:14), Satan, posing as Jesus Christ.

The sad truth of the matter is that the majority of Christians will believe he in fact IS Christ and they will bow before him.

That is what the great apostasy is, the great falling away, and it shall happen in one day's time!

Therefore be very careful when listening to pastors and preachers, all of them, including this one.

That does not mean you need to be afraid of listening to them, just check out what they teach with the Word of God.

Never forget that "false teachers" are the number one warning Jesus Christ gave us concerning these last days.

They come in His name, i.e. as Christian ministers, MANY of them, even the MAJORITY of them, and they all say that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that's about it!

Salvation and baptism is all many of them ever talk about!

The rest is church, church, church!

And I'm not knocking church, it is just that very few teach our Father's Word chapter by chapter and verse by verse and therefore they TURN NOT the hearts of the people back to their Father, i.e. to His Word, to follow after and walk in His ways.

Therefore our people are and remain Biblically illiterate and suffer the consequences of idolatry and liberalism as a result of their lack of the knowledge of His Word.

You "see", if one does not study God's Word then that individual IGNORES HIM because they ignore His voice, His word!

We hear a lot of words about the Lord from many preachers, but we hear very few of His actual words taught from the Bible (the whole book is His Word).

And because of the drought, the dearth of Living Water, i.e. His Word, this once fruitful place has been turned into a spiritual death valley filled with spiritually "dry bones" (Ezek. 37)!

It is the job and duty of the "watchman", of whom Ezekiel was a type, to prophesy (i.e. teach the prophets) to those "dry bones" who have been starved by the priests and pastors of churchianity, and thus breath "life" back into those dry bones.

That is because the woes and labor pangs shall continue in strength and intensity in these last days and many shall folks shall be dismayed and run to and fro, from sea to shining sea (i.e. people from all over the land), seeking answers, seeking the word of the LORD.

Yes, they shall even fill many churches to capacity and shall be led to pray and sing songs of praise but alas, they still shall NOT find His Word!

Our brothers and sisters need to be shown where the "Green Pastures" are, where the "Living Water" flows, where the "Bread of Life" can be found!

Someone needs to love them enough to lead them directly to Jesus Christ, to the Word of God, and teach them with understanding that they may learn to receive and eat their "Daily Bread" from Him and live.

Just going to church once a week and performing a few rituals and hearing one or two verses read from the Bible, will surely cause one to spiritually "dry up" and be blown away like chaff when "the winds blow, and beat upon your house (Mat. 7:25)"!

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.

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