What happens to
the church?
As we have shown
in previous articles, we know what happens to
One of the things
to happen will be members being put out of the church.
Isa
66:5 Hear
the word of the LORD, You who
tremble at His word: "Your brethren who hated you,
Who cast you out for My
name's sake, said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, That
we may see your joy.' But
they shall be ashamed."
During the time
of Jacob’s trouble some in the church enjoy God’s
protection from the four
judgments. Just as Israel were protected during
the time in Egypt when
God sent His plagues on Egypt, so some of the church
will be protected during
the time of Jacob’s trouble. The judgments will
not come on them, just as
the plagues did not come on
Psalm 91 clearly
shows that some in the church will be protected by God
the Father, during the four
judgments of Jacob’s Trouble.
Psa
91:4 He
shall cover you with His
feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall
be your shield and buckler.
Psa
91:5 You
shall not be afraid of the
terror by night, Nor of
the
arrow that
flies by day,
Psa
91:6 Nor of the pestilence that
walks in darkness, Nor of
the
destruction that
lays waste at
noonday.
Psa
91:7 A
thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand; But
it shall not come near you.
Psa
91:8 Only
with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.
Notice also the
following.
Rev
12:6 Then
the woman fled into the
wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God,
that they should feed her
there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
As shown in
another article on Jacob, the scriptures indicate that
the captivity lasts
between 2 to 3 years.
The following
scriptures show that the church is close to
Whilst the
Israelites are in captivity, God expects that His end
time church will feed
them and care for them, physically and spiritually.
Notice these
following scriptures which show that the church should
have looked after
Eze
34:2 "Son
of man, prophesy against
the shepherds of
The following
Israelites have been through Jacob’s trouble, they
desperately need the church
to help them. The church has not sought after
Eze
34:4 The
weak you have not strengthened,
nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound
up the broken, nor brought
back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost;
but with force and cruelty
you have ruled them.
The church was
only interested in feeding itself, they did not care
about
Eze
34:8 "As I live," says the Lord GOD,
"surely because My
flock became a prey, and My flock became food for
every beast of the field,
because there
was no shepherd,
nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the
shepherds fed themselves and
did not feed My flock"
Because the
church will not go after
Eze
34:11 'For
thus says the Lord GOD:
"Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek
them out.
God provides both
physical and spiritual food and drink for His church,
but they do not pass on
these things to
Eze
34:18 Is
it too little for you to have
eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down
with your feet the residue
of your pasture and to have drunk of the clear
waters, that you must foul the
residue with your feet?
The church did
not care about giving
Eze
34:19 And
as for My flock, they eat what you
have trampled with your feet,
and they drink what you have fouled with your feet."
David, is God’s
trusted servant, and he will feed them. Both
David and the Father rescue
Eze
34:23 I
will establish one shepherd over
them, and he shall feed them My servant David. He
shall feed them and be their
shepherd.
Once
Eze
34:30 Thus
they shall know that I, the
LORD their God, am with
them,
and they, the house of Israel, are
My people," says the Lord GOD.' "
During the
captivity, God is less than happy with the church,
since they did not care
about
As we have already seen in other articles, the Father
and David rescue
PLEASE NOTE
WE ARE NOT TRYING TO SET DATES, WE ARE SIMPLY
QUOTING SCRIPTURE ON THIS
POINT
We are told by
scripture how long the church will be persecuted and
martyred. There is a
period of 6 years 4 months and 20 days. The
counting of this period of
time starts after, the temple is build, after the
Father enters the temple and
then leaves the temple in the authority of the
church members. After
the little horn comes on to the scene.
The counting of the time mentioned above, starts when
the little horn thinks to
change times and laws, and culminates with the
abomination of desolation being
set up in the temple.
Slowly the little horn will come in by flatteries, and
start to change times
and laws, this happens for the first period of
approximately 3 years.
Then the martyrdom and persecution will begin for the
remaining 3 1/2 years.
Dan
7:25 He
shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,
Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And
shall intend to change times
and law. Then the saints
shall
be given into his hand For a time and times and half
a time.
The little horn
is on the scene. The sanctuary is a place inside
the temple.
Dan
8:11 He
even exalted himself
as high as the Prince of the
host; and by him the daily sacrifices
were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was
cast down.
The little horn
is powerful, the truth is cast down, and the little
horn prospers.
Dan
8:12 Because
of transgression, an army
was given over to the horn
to
oppose the daily sacrifices;
and he cast truth down to the ground. He did all this and prospered.
From the time
when the physical little horn comes onto the
scene and begins to change
times and laws, until the abomination of desolation is
set up, is the period of
6 years 4 months and 20 days.
Dan
8:13 Then
I heard a holy one speaking;
and another
holy one said to
that certain one who
was
speaking, "How long will
the vision be,
concerning the
daily sacrifices
and the
transgression of desolation, the giving of both the
sanctuary and the host to
be trampled underfoot?"
The gradual
process, which culminates in the martyrdom of saints
takes 6 years 4 months and
20 days. Then the sanctuary is cleansed.
Dan
8:14 And
he said to me, "For two
thousand three hundred days; then the sanctuary
shall be cleansed."
Let’s look at how
these events unfold.
On return from
captivity repentant
Eze
43:10 "Son
of man, describe the
temple to the house of
Eze
43:11 And
if they are ashamed of all
that they have done, make known to them the design
of the temple and its
arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire
design and all its
ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that
they may keep its whole design
and all its ordinances, and perform them.
Eze
44:15 "But
the priests, the
Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My
sanctuary when the children
of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near
Me to minister to Me; and
they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat
and the blood," says the
Lord GOD.
Some time after
the temple is built, some of the church members are
deceived and have
intelligence with the beast.
Dan
11:30 For
ships from Cyprus shall come
against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and
return in rage against the holy
covenant, and do damage.
"So he shall return and show regard for those who
forsake the holy
covenant.
This leads to the
temple being defiled.
Psa 79:1 A
Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have
come into Your inheritance; Your
holy temple they have defiled; They have laid
Isa
63:18 Your
holy people have possessed it but a
little while; Our
adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
Eze
5:11 'Therefore,
as I live,' says the Lord GOD,
'surely, because you have defiled
My sanctuary with all your detestable things and
with all your abominations,
therefore I will also diminish you;
My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.
The following
scripture shows that the group which forsake the
covenant, is then corrupted by
flatteries. These people are church people who
do not believe the truth
and do not have the love of the truth.
Dan
11:32 Those
who do wickedly against the
covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the
people who know their God
shall be strong, and carry out great
exploits.
Eze
44:7 When
you brought in foreigners,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh,
to be in My sanctuary to
defile it My house and when you offered My food, the
fat and the blood, then
they broke My covenant because of all your
abominations.
2Th
2:10 and
with all unrighteous deception
among those who perish, because they did not receive
the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.
2Th
2:11 And
for this reason God will send
them strong delusion, that they should believe the
lie,
2Th
2:12 that
they all may be condemned who
did not believe the truth but had pleasure in
unrighteousness.
2Th
2:3 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,
2Th
2:4 who
opposes and exalts himself above
all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that
he sits as God in the
In Daniel 11 v 32
is a clear difference between two groups of people in
God’s church at the end
time. The 1st group, does not believe the truth
and is bought
off and easily swayed into harlotry by the little
horn, he deceives them with
flatteries. They forsake the holy covenant.
The 2nd group are the people who love the truth, they
know their God and are
strong and do exploits.
We must have this
attitude towards God’s word, shown in this next
scripture.
Jer
15:16 Your
words were found, and I ate
them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing
of my heart; For I am
called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.
When the
martyrdom starts,
Eze
34:13 And
I will bring them out from the
peoples and gather them from the countries, and will
bring them to their own
land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel,
in the valleys and in all
the inhabited places of the country.
Eze
34:14 I
will feed them in good pasture,
and their fold shall be on the high mountains of
Eze
34:25 "I
will make a covenant of
peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from
the land; and they will
dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the
woods.
Eze
34:26 I
will make them and the places
all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause
showers to come down in their
season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Back to the
church,
Rev
11:2 But
leave out the court which is
outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it
has been given to the
Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city
underfoot for forty-two months.
The saints are
given into the hand of the little horn for 3 ½ years.
Dan
7:25 He
shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,
Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And
shall intend to change times
and law. Then the saints
shall
be given into his hand For a time and times and half
a time.
During this time
the martyrdom of saints will occur.
Mat
24:9 "Then
they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill
you, and you will be hated by
all nations for My name's sake.
Mat
24:10 And
then many will be offended, will betray one
another, and will hate one another.
Mat
23:34 Therefore,
indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and
scribes: some of them you will kill and
crucify, and some
of them you will scourge in your
synagogues and persecute from city to city,
Mat
10:17 But
beware of men, for they will deliver you up to
councils and scourge you in
their synagogues.
Mat
10:18 You
will be brought before
governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to
them and to the Gentiles.
Mat
10:21 "Now
brother will deliver up brother to death, and a
father his child; and children will rise
up against parents and cause
them to be put to death.
Mat
10:22 And you
will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he
who endures to the end will be
saved.
Rev
12:17 And
the dragon was enraged with
the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of
her offspring, who keep the
commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ.
The martyrdom and
persecution is at the hands of the physical beast up
until he is killed and the
devil beast takes over.
Dan
7:21 "I
was watching; and the same
horn was making war against the saints, and
prevailing against them,
The following
verse is about the firstfruits, because they are the
saints of the most High.
Dan
7:22 until
the Ancient of Days came, and
a judgment was made in favor
of
the saints of the Most High, and the time came for
the saints to possess the
kingdom.
When the Father
returns, He comes to the Mount of Olives, this splits
in two and the Israelites
flee through the valley into the
Then the Father
destroys the physical beast with the nation of the
Medes.
{Descendants of Japeth, and therefore will be
Asian.}
Isa 13:1 The burden
against
Isa
13:17 "Behold,
I will stir up the
Medes against them, Who will not regard silver; And
as for gold, they will not delight
in it.
Dan
7:11 "I
watched then because of the
sound of the pompous words which the horn was
speaking; I watched till the
beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given to
the burning flame.
Probably
immediately after the physical beast is killed; a
demon posing as the physical
beast comes up starting a frenzy amongst people that
he is alive again, however
he is not alive again, this is in fact a demon.
This is the deadly wound
which was healed.
Rev
13:3 And
I saw one of his heads as if it had
been mortally wounded, and
his deadly wound was healed. And all the world
marveled and followed the beast.
Rev
13:12 And
he exercises all the authority
of the first beast in his presence, and causes the
earth and those who dwell in
it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound
was healed.
Here we see some
of the church members who die.
Dan
11:33 And
those of the people who
understand shall instruct many; yet for
many days they shall fall by sword and
flame, by captivity and
plundering.
During this time
people cleave to them with flatteries.
Dan
11:34 Now
when they fall, they shall be
aided with a little help; but many shall join with
them by intrigue.
Some of those who
are to die at this time, must die to try and purge
them and make them white, so
we see it is for their ultimate salvation. Also
notice that the martyrdom
will continue till the time of the end, so this means
until the return of
Christ.
Dan 11:35 And some
of those of understanding shall fall, to refine
them, purify them,
and make them
white, until the time of the end; because
it is still for the appointed time.
As we realise the
parable of the virgins, refers to the church. Notice
that half the virgins are
not known by God, we must be very diligent with our
calling and be careful not
to be deceived. We must know God and then He
will know us. If we
allow our spiritual life to die out, we will loose the
Holy Spirit which was
given to us at our baptism, that it why God does not
know these virgins, they
lost the Holy Spirit through lack of prayer, bible
study, obedience, and belief
in God.
Mat
25:10 And
while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and
those who were ready went in
with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.
Mat
25:11 "Afterward
the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord,
open to us!'
Mat
25:12 But he
answered and said, 'Assuredly, I say to you, I do
not know you.'
People for
the little
horn came in with flatteries and deceived members of
the church, and set
up the abomination of desolation.
Dan
11:31 And
forces shall be mustered by
him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress;
then they shall take away
the daily sacrifices,
and place
there
the abomination of
desolation.
Some people
remain faithful, those who know their God.
Dan
11:32 Those
who do wickedly against the
covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the
people who know their God
shall be strong, and carry out great
exploits.
Once the
abomination of desolation is set up in the temple, the
Israelites flee to the
If church members
are close to God they may be protected during the
martyrdom.
Luk
21:36 Watch
therefore, and pray always that you may be counted
worthy to escape all these
things that will come to pass, and to stand before
the Son of
Psa
17:7 Show
Your marvelous lovingkindness
by Your right hand, O You who save those who trust in You From those who rise up against them.
Psa
17:8 Keep
me as the apple of Your eye;
Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,
Psa
17:9 From
the wicked who oppress me, From my
deadly enemies who surround
me.
Zep
2:3 Seek
the LORD, all you meek of the
earth, Who have upheld His justice. Seek
righteousness, seek humility. It may
be that you will be hidden In the day of the LORD's
anger.
We know that
Satan
will be active in the last days, as he knows that he
has only a little time,
and the church will be his prime target. It is
going to be easy to be
deceived, so we must be on our guard and stay close to
God.
Let’s notice the
parable of the wedding. This parable is for the
end time church.
Mat
22:2 "The
kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who
arranged a marriage for his son,
God has had
servants over many years who have been leaders in the
churches, they have shown
people the truth, but many have simply ignored their
calling.
Mat
22:3
and sent out his
servants to call those who were invited to the
wedding; and they were not
willing to come.
Now we see
different servants, so time has marched on, now it is
closer to the wedding,
and all is ready, the call is more urgent.
Mat
22:4 Again,
he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those
who are invited, "See, I
have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle
are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding."
'
The people were
just too busy to be bothered, they had other things,
which were of more
importance to them, than God’s calling.
Mat
22:5 But
they made light of it and went their ways, one to
his own farm, another to his
business.
Notice the
following, concerning the remnant, we know that Satan
makes war with the
remnant of the church, the remnant are the ones who
are left round about the
time of the Day of the Lord.
Notice that some church members kill the servants
of God, the leaders, and
teachers, and members who are faithful to God.
Mat
22:6 And the
rest seized his servants, treated them
spitefully, and killed them.
Luk
12:45 But if
that servant says in his heart, 'My master is
delaying his coming,' and begins
to beat the male and female servants, and to eat
and drink and be drunk,
Joh
16:2 They
will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time
is coming that whoever kills
you will think that he offers God service.
Joh
16:3 And
these things they will do to you because they have
not known the Father nor Me.
During the Day of
the Lord, the Father will destroy these false members
of the end time church,
using armies to do it.
God’s faithful
servants are marked out and protected from this
destruction.
Mat
22:7 But
when the king heard about it,
he was furious. And he sent out his armies,
destroyed those murderers, and
burned up their city.
Eze
9:2 And
suddenly six men came from the
direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each
with his battle-ax in his
hand. One man among them was
clothed with linen and had a writer's inkhorn at his
side. They went in and
stood beside the bronze altar.
Eze
9:3 Now
the glory of the God of Israel
had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to
the threshold of the temple.
And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer's inkhorn at his
side;
Eze
9:4 and
the LORD said to him, "Go
through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and put a mark
on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over
all the abominations that are
done within it."
Eze
9:5 To
the others He said in my hearing,
"Go after him through the city and kill; do not let
your eye spare, nor
have any pity.
Eze
9:6 Utterly
slay old and
young men, maidens and little
children and women; but do not come near anyone on
whom is the mark; and begin at My
sanctuary." So they began with
the elders who were
before the
temple.
The Father tells
the servants of God {the end time leaders of the
Church who are faithful} that
the called ones were not worthy. This is talking
about church members NOW
who through laziness and unbelief, turn their back on
God’s calling, this is
the end time church who will not believe the end time
knowledge and truths put
out by the end time church.
Mat
22:8 Then he
said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but
those who were invited were
not worthy.
The Father says
to the servants to go out to the highways and bid as
many as you can find to
the wedding. These are not church members, these
are possibly repentant
Israel, after their return from captivity, who openly
declare their love for
God and who are totally committed to Him now…..they do
not depart from the
truth. The church members are out, and just
everyday people are in.
These guests could possibly be children of church
members.
Mat
22:9 Therefore
go into the highways, and as many as you find,
invite to the wedding.'
The servants go
out and gather the wedding guests, now they are good
and bad, the Israelites,
would have been good and bad people, but they have
repented, and that is the
attitude God wants. These people are far and
away better than the church
members who do not believe Him. Remember also
that
Mat
22:10 So
those servants went out into the highways and
gathered together all whom they
found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
The following
verse is about the repentant Israelites.
Jer
31:33 But
this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after
those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in
their minds, and write it on
their hearts; and I will be their God, and they
shall be My people.
Joe
2:29 And
also on My menservants and on My
maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those
days.
There was a man
there without a wedding garment, this is the righteous
acts of the saints.
Mat
22:11 "But
when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a
man there who did not have on
a wedding garment.
The garment is
the righteous acts of the saints.
Rev
19:8 And
to her it was granted to be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the
fine linen is the righteous
acts of the saints.
This next verse
is shocking and must be a wake up call for all of us
in God’s church, here we
see one of the evil sons of God trying to get in to
the wedding, but Christ
told him otherwise….. {We know it was an evil
son of God for two
reasons. 1. Christ called him friend which
means kinsman, and 2. He
was thrown into the lake of fire}.
Mat
22:12 So he
said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here
without a wedding garment?' And
he was speechless.
Mat
22:13 Then
the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and
foot, take him away, and cast
him
into outer darkness; there
will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
The following
verse is referring to the evil sons of God.
Mat
8:12 But the
sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer
darkness. There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth."
Mat
25:30 And
cast the unprofitable servant into the outer
darkness. There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.'
Luk
13:28 There
will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you
see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob
and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and
yourselves thrust out.
Many are called,
and as the end approaches, we will see that only few
indeed are chosen, this is
a sad picture for people who have God’s Holy Spirit. Once we have
the Holy Spirit of power we must
prove to be faithful.
Let’s wake up as
we see the day approaching, let’s get serious about
our calling and strive with
our whole heart to be not only chosen but faithful
children of God.
Mat
22:14 "For
many are called, but few are
chosen."
