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good morning,
Valerie asked me to post from an email conversation we had yesterday. I was saying my thoughts about the M Sklar belief that the Lord would come shortly after Billy Graham died. we all have opinions and I am not saying mine is THE outcome, (are you kidding? my understanding is limited) but it is how I presently see current events gathering.
The battle belongs to the Lord. He knows all that is going on here on earth and has not lost control. He is going to call the church to Himself and take back rule and authority on time - Jesus is going to take that scroll in Revelation and He certainly will return on time to rule.
Please read in your bible and see, like Bereans, for yourself what Ez 38 and 39 say.
Below is my comments from the email yesterday, I had "talked" with Kathy and Valerie... if you disagree with me, thats ok. I would appreciate if you would say why so I could consider your view...

as far as the timing of Billy Graham’s death, I don’t know what to say. Can God speak to people in our time? Sure, but I don’t have a way to know that He did.
If somebody predicts something and it doesn’t happen, then for sure it was not God, because God doesn’t lose track of what He has spoken, and He watches over His word to perform it.
I had hoped Billy Graham would not die, that we would see the Lord in the rapture first. As long as he was alive, it was like, oh yea, he is getting older Lord, maybe we’ll go home soon.
Now Billy is with the Lord, so we are going home after his death. Does this mean that M Sklar message is true? I don’t know. Oral Roberts has been in heaven since Dec 2009 and we are here.
The events of Ez 38 are much more convincing to me of the hour we live in.
What could make it so a temple could be rebuilt without Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Turkey, and others doing their best to prevent it or destroy it? Even Jordan, can you imagine the king of Jordan agreeing to a temple being built? I can’t. That would be a big surprise. He doesn’t even want metal detectors to prevent weapons on the temple mount.
God destroying Gog’s forces and many peoples with him, that would put the fear of God into leaders who survive in their respective nations.

if you get time, see these, from 3 years ago, about Ez 38 and Ez 39


and an update Dr Woods did 3 months ago.


God bless you and keep you and cause His face to shine upon you and give you peace, really soon! Maranatha

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one of the reasons I hope for the rapture this year, is that in Ez 38, God personally gets involved in defeating those coming against Israel. God’s wrath is involved.
It says in 38:9 that there are many people with the Gog forces who are coming to take a spoil. look at what is happening with the displaced and desperate people because of the Syria conflicts. Ghouta and other situations have people desperate.
its easy to see how “many people with thee” might be a flood of desperate homeless people whose communities have been devastated from years of civil war, willing to flood into Israel to take a spoil, with the Gog forces using them for cover to attack into Israel.
Ez 38 is more plausible to happen in our time, maybe this spring, than it ever has been. All the named forces, Iran, Russia, and such have troops and administration involved in forces.

Ez 38:16, 23 God sanctifies Himself - the church isn’t proving that God exists

38:18-23, God’s fury, wrath, jealously is expressed against the invaders. God is personally doing this. the rain, fire, hailstones, brimstone, this is like Sodom and Gomorrah, definitely God’s supernatural judgement, its not people protesting and aiming rockets back at them. no, God is doing something supernatural and in v 23, God magnifies Himself, the nations will know the God of Israel is alive.

This cannot be in the church age. Why? Because if it happened in the present age, then those who come to belief would be who, they would be the church. But this is not adding to the church. Ez 38 is God making a statement to Israel that I Am is alive and present and dealing with the nations in a judgement fashion. God is working here to bring Israel back to faith. When does God do this? In the 70th week of Daniel. Ez 38 doesn’t mention the two witnesses or 144,000, it looks like they arrive sometime after God has done this.
In the age of the church, the just shall live by faith. This doesn’t take a whole lot of trust, faith to believe a supernatural God is alive when He is raining brimstone hail and fire on His enemies; God makes Himself known to many nations, verse 23.Since we can see Ez 38 on the horizon with news events, this is why I believe we are soon out of here. The church is removed before God’s wrath is openly present like Ez describes, so either before that battle or at the gathering, beginning, my view is that the church is removed.
Israel was taken captive to Babylon for 70 years. they have been reformed as a nation now 70 years,
It would not surprise me for the Lord to call the church to Himself this spring. Keep your eyes on Israel and those Gog forces that are gathered. Israel is God’s timepiece it has been said.
May 14, 1948 was 5 Iyar on the Hebrew calendar; This year on the calendar, 5 Iyar falls on April 20.
There isn’t a sign for us about the day of the rapture, but if we see tribulation events this close, we know the rapture comes first.
Regina

My Email reply to Regina

Regina,


I believe you should share your thoughts on this email, on Rapture Flight to Heaven, it sure sounds encouraging to me.


Please do share this on the message board with everyone. This spring may turn out to be the timing of the Rapture after all is said and done. We will wait on the Lord and see, and keep our faithful watch.

Our time on Earth is getting shorter, day by day, second by second now. Then "when we LEAST EXPECT IT, the Rapture will take place. Believe me, many right now least expect it to take place then ever before, can't we tell by so many scoffers, which are growing in numbers, and they are not just the secular crowd either.


Maranatha,


Valerie


Thanks Regina for sharing your encouraging thoughts on the Rapture.

Look up our redemption is closer than ever before!

God Bless,

Valerie