The Time of the Latter Rain

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The pharmaceutical industry has been making Billions of dollars on Covid19 and the vaccines made to counteract it. The CDC, NIH, and FDA have been caught numerous times lying about the statistics and they have been caught using the Media to ‘factcheck’ those who want to tell the truth out of their ability to speak, even the White House has colluded with them. Some 50,000 seniors on Medicare have died due to the vaccine and the pharmaceutical industry is also implicated in all the abortions that have taken place in our country as well. They have “fattened their hearts in a day of slaughter” as James writes.

“Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. . . . You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.” – James 5:1-6

God has not overlooked their doings, He has seen it all. In fact He predicted man’s wickedness would rise to this level in the last days. But their riches are corrupted and their silver and gold are corroded and will not save them from the fires of hell! I believe this is the year when they will begin to come down. But God doesn’t want His people to be discouraged and the next word James speaks is to those who believe in Jesus –

“Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” – James 5:7, 8

The ‘farmer’ is God and He is waiting patiently for the precious fruit of the earth, which is souls of the redeemed. The early rain came on that first Pentecost, just after the Lord’s first coming, and the later rain will come just before the Lord’s second coming to bring in the final harvest’

“Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.” – Hos. 6:3

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you— The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.” – Joel 2:23

When that ‘later’ rain begins, James says, “Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” As we witness the wicked heaping riches to themselves by their wickedness, know that the later rain is about to begin, and may already have begun! The prophet Zechariah also has a word for us –

“Ask the LORD for rain In the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, Grass in the field for everyone.” – Zech. 10:1

When we see that the time of the latter rain is drawing near, we need to pray asking God for it. When Daniel saw that the 70 years of Jerimiah’s prophesy were finished, he began to pray, asking God to bring it forth. So, we also need to beseech heaven asking for the latter rain to fall!

God will not let the demon forces of hell rob Him of the harvest and He will answer our prayer for the latter rain to fall and we will be like David –

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places. He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.” – Psalm 18:32-41 KJV

And remember, God said David was a man after His own heart!

The Final Rain of the Holy Spirit

feastdaysaug282017We are approaching the beginning of God’s yearly cycle of Feasts which begins with Passover on March 28th. (actually the evening of March 27th). Modern Judaism has combined the first three feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits into one feast which they celebrate as Passover and goes from March 28-April 4. I have written before about Passover and it’s true meaning, if you haven’t read it, I suggest you do. Passover occurs on the 14th day of the First Month of the calendar God gave to the Hebrews which is called Nisan.

Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month (Nisan) shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.” – Exo. 12:1, 2

There were four feasts in the Spring of the year, concluded by Pentecost, and three feasts in the Fall of the year begun by the Feast of Trumpets. I have written about the Feast of Trumpets in The Trumpet is Soon to Blow and many believe this feast prophetically begins the countdown to the Lord’s second coming. The Feast of Trumpets occurs on the first day of the seventh month, Tishri. Modern Judaism celebrates this feast as the New Year because Tishri means ‘the head of the year’ and they have reordered God’s calendar by calling Tishri the 1st. month of the year but, I feel quite sure God doesn’t recognize their reordering. It is still the 7th. month of God’s calendar.

Now my intent with this article is not to reteach about the Feasts of the Lord but, to bring to the forefront a truth these feasts bring forth. All of these feasts were built around the yearly harvest cycle in Israel. The Feast of First Fruits occurred at the Barley harvest, the Feast of Pentecost occurred at the Wheat harvest, and the Feast of Tabernacles occurred at the fruit harvest. Now as the children of Israel left Egypt, God spoke to them about these harvests –

‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, ‘then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.” – Deut. 11:13, 14

God repeats this promise again through the prophet Joel –

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God; for He has given you the former rain faithfully (Strong’s moderately), and He will cause the rain to come down for you—The former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.” – Joel 2:23

God promised to give the ‘latter rain’ to fully ripen the last harvest before it was picked and it would not come moderately but in abundance! This is the verse James is referring to in his allusion to the farmer –

“Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.” – James 5:7

So, the latter rain has to do with the final harvest. The prophet of Joel, quoted above, goes on to say –

“And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the remnant whom the LORD calls.” – Joel 2:28-32

This prophesy has to do with the former and the latter rain. The former rain came at Pentecost as Peter quoted  this prophesy.

“For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved. ” – Acts 2:15-21

However, the second part of Joel’s prophesy did not occur at Pentecost, it is reserved for the latter rain of the Holy Spirit which will occur shortly ‘Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD’. What events can we expect before this day? Joel prophesied wonders in heavens and signs in the earth beneath. The Sun will be turned into darkness – Eclipses, which we have had in the last 7 years, one which was exclusive to the United States and a third to come in 2024, also only across the United States. And the Moon into blood – the Blood Red Moon Tetrad of 2014-15. and another Blood Red Moon over Jerusalem on July 27, 2018. Occurrences of fire and smoke sounds like volcanos which are greatly increasing now along with earthquakes. These signs have been occurring ever since 2010 beginning with the mass die offs Hosea forecast –

Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land. By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed. Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.” – Hosea 4:1-3

God is warning with signs in heaven and on earth, repent and turn back to Him.

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God is warning us to prepare for the final Harvest, a harvest of souls. And He is going to pour out the Holy Spirit in abundance as the ‘Latter Rain’ falls on us. Just as the ‘former rain’ came during a time of great stress in Israel so the ‘latter rain’ will also come at a time of great stress on the earth! There will be warfare, in the heavens and on the earth as God’s angels enter the battle and Satan’s angels are thrown out of heaven and to the earth. The earth itself will shake with earthquakes and volcanos and Satan’s followers will try hard to defeat those who stand with God to reap the final harvest. But, we will overcome him by the “blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony and we love God more than we love our very lives.” 

latter rainAs we celebrate Passover this year we need to remember, we need an outpouring of the Holy Spirit to prepare for the final wilderness journey and that is exactly what God promises

“Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.” – Joel 2:23″

Notice, the rain will come in the first month, the month of Nisan and the time of Passover. And remember, we are specifically told to pray for it –

“Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.” – Zech. 10:1

Continue praying, don’t give up. Remember, on Pentecost, when the former rain came, they had been seeking and praying for 50 days. God will honor His word in due time, don’t give up. He is not going to pour out this latter rain because we are so good, but because we are not so good and we need it for the days ahead!

The Everlasting Gospel

jesus-among-the-lampstands“Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fireHis feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.” – Rev. 1:12-16

Jesus came the first time as a lamb, meek and lowly. He said He did not come to judge the world but to offer a way to escape the judgement that was coming.

“And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.” – John 12:47,48 Continue reading

Stability in the storm

iran clockI have not written for a week or more because I have just been listening and watching events that are happening around the world and in our country. The volume of the reports are almost deafening.

War is simmering in the Mideast and it is apparent that God is holding things in check until His timing is fulfilled. Many have been predicting eminent war there and I have also thought that it must come soon, but God is once again proving that He alone controls the destiny of nations. All anyone can say for sure is ‘watch and pray’ because it could happen at any time!

lightning_capitolThe political climate of western nations is swirling around like hurricanes with tornadoes and volcanoes mixed in to keep the tension high. In America, the political pun-dents are running around like chickens proclaiming the ‘sky is falling’! over every move President Trump makes. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, that it is God who raises up and puts down rulers at His pleasure. I believe one thing is certain – God is using President Trump to restrain control-hungry world leaders and politicians until He is ready to move. In the process the Antichrist kingdom is also forming and its leader may already be on the scene. Remember, in the Bible, God left the Hebrew children in Egyptian bondage until the sin of the nations of Palestine had reached their climax.

“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. … But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete. – Gen. 15:13-16

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Israel, Ensign for the nations

God is in control, even of the timing in which events happen, and He moves nations and men like chess pieces to fulfill His purposes. We may not understand all His purposes but one He has made very clear – the nation of Israel will return and eventually say “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord” as Jesus predicted.

“for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ ” – Matt. 23:39

The wars that are coming in the Mideast serve two purposes: 1) to judge the nations that have opposed God and, 2) to humble Israel and cause her to call upon the Name of The Lord and recognize her Messiah, Jesus.

God always finishes what He begins! He began the nation of Israel with a calling and He will bring them back to fulfill that calling. He also began the Church with a calling. We see it displayed in the Book of Acts and He will bring the Church back to this calling. The latter rainChurch began with Pentecost, which was called the ‘former rain’ of the Holy Spirit, and there is a ‘latter rain’ coming which will conclude the Church age. The Church is not going out as a defeated woman but as a victorious Bride by the power of the Holy Spirit! Remember, when the Church began it was full of Jewish believers and that is the way it will be at the end as well. The One New Man will be complete!

“having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,” – Eph. 2:15

However, Jesus Himself predicted many would leave the faith before He comes. He said –

“…  when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth? – Luke 18:8

Paul predicted there would a great falling away before the Lord came back –

“Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition (Antichrist)” – 2 Thes. 2:3

The present church is full of wheat and tares, the true and the false, and it appears the tares will outnumber the wheat. Paul warned the reason this happens is because of the truth. Many loved the world and its unrighteousness more than the truth of God –

“and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” – 2 Thes. 2:10-12

This is a hard saying and not many preachers want to preach it. They love the numbers and tithes more than the truth. And it is important to realize this is not speaking of some humanist or politically correct truth but of the truth that God proclaimed in the Bible. Jesus claimed this and you cannot be related to Him without agreeing –

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” – John 14:6

Not many ways to God – only One. Christianity is not a co-regency of authority. It is the only way to eternal life. It has love for all but, it cannot co-exist with all. Because of its love and concern, it must strive to save all by showing the true path to God – Jesus Christ.

Rise and Shine

It would be easy to be quiet, worn down by the pressures of the Antichrist spirit now ruling in America and indeed in the world at large. But, it is at times like this when the body of Christ must rise up and shine, because we alone have light to overcome the darkness that now assails us.

We have just witnessed a historic Blood Red Moon tetrad, which ended in September. The Shemitah, or Sabbath year, also ended and the Year of Jubilee began. Many have wondered if anything happened? Remember, the blood moons are signs warning about upcoming events. Events which may have begun but will not mature quite yet. However, with that Continue reading