Today's Special:Alert! We're in the third day!

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2 Peter 3:8

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

When the Bible says 'do not forget', please 'do not forget'! Now this means that with every thousand years we spend here, it's actually like a day in the Lord's eyes. And everyday someone stops short of believing the truth, it's like a thousand years to the Lord. He is waiting, and waiting. This shows that the Lord is very patient with us, for he does not want anyone to perish but to have everlasting life. But the patience of the Lord is wearing thin.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words.

This is the rapture. What is the rapture? It is the changing of our earthly bodies into heavenly bodies in a twinkling of an eye. So what will happen? Very simple. It is as written,"we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air."Then we shall be with the Lord for a very, very long time. Forever. When you read the Book of Revelations, you will understand that there will be a marriage supper of the Lamb. We will feast with the Lord in the air. How wonderful that is! As the Lord was risen from the dead, so will those who are in Christ.


Hosea 6:1-2

Come, and let us return to the LORD;For He has torn, but He will heal us;He has stricken, but He will bind us up.After two days He will revive us;On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.

Now this shows us who the Lord is talking about. 'He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.' All these promises are for Christians. For those who believe in our Lord. What about the two days and the third day? Now as I've mentioned above, a thousand years is like one day in the Lord's eyes. Two days times one thousand is two thousand years. 'After two days He will revive us;On the third day He will raise us up.' Doesn't 'He will raise us up' sound familiar? It certainly means the rapture! Now the interesting part is when it will take place. Do you want to know when it would?

"After two days He will revive us;On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight. " After two days(two thousand years of his death), He will revive us. On the third day, (the period after AD 1999), He will raise us up. Hallelujah! He will raise us up! Alright, if this is not specific enough, I will show you more. There is a significance in the phrase 'the third day'. Do you realise that Jesus was raised on the third day? Do you know that Jonah was spat from the big fish's belly on the third day? What is the significance of the third day? Let's look at this passage.

Mark 16:1-2

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb.

When was Jesus raised from the dead? On the third day. Mary Magdalene went to anoint Jesus' body 'very early, just after sunrise' on the third day of His death. Do you see it now? VERY EARLY, JUST AFTER SUNRISE! We will also be raised in the same way! Very early of the third day. Are we living in the third day? From AD 1 to AD 2007, 3007 years have passed. We're in the third day period. And in which part of the period? The early part of the period.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, I urge you in the name of the Lord to hope for this blessed hope. Like Paul says, "It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. Christians, look out for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. The Lord wants us to be ready for His coming. We are His bride, and He is our bridegroom. We will be caught up in the air for the marriage with our beloved bridegroom, our Lord Jesus. Let's live with hope, and look forward to this day. God bless you.

God's promise of Israel

Ezekiel 37:7-11

So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.' "So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
Then he said to me: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.'

Ezekiel 37:21-23

and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

The gradual growth of the Israeli nation from scattered skeleton to full body development is startling. As Ezekiel's prophecy indicates:" There was a noise, and...a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone".Then, "the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above:but there was no breath in them"

From the sound of an earthshaking event, which was WWI, the seemingly dead nation of Israel was to gradually formulate a body, after which the spirit would be breathed into it. This was how Israel was formed, beginning in 1917.

During WWI, german machine guns and other advanced weaponry were cutting down the flower of Europe's manhood. England was desperate to find a rapid method of manufacturing TNT and a smokeless gunpowder. A brilliant Jew named Chaim Weizmann invented such a formula that made possible the rapid production of these vital materials, thus changing the course of the war.

Could it be mere coincidence of language that the impetus to officially start the regathering of Israel was prophesied as a 'noise and shaking,' and that the fulfillment took place during the loudest war--due to the prodigious amounts of TNT and gunpowder used--the world had ever yet known?

In return of Chaim Weizmann invention of the formula, David Lloyd George, representing the British government, told Dr. Weizmann to name his price. Rejecting personal award, Weizmann requested that Palestine be declared the international homeland for the Jewish people. And it was granted.

The gathering of the Jews into Palestine after the signing of the agreement was indeed a gradual development--'bone to his bone.'In 1917, it was estimated that less than 25,000 Jews lived in the land. By 1922, there were 83,000;by 1932, there were 180,000; by 1935, there were 300,000; by 1937, 430,000; and by 1945, more than 500,000. Today, the population is at 5 million and growing. So as the Bible says,"bone came to [his] bone."

But while God blessed Israel, Britain reneged on her 1917 agreement. In 1939, after much deliberation over the growing conflicts between Arabs and Jews, Britain issued a white paper that favored Arab independence and control of the area. After failing to keep peace between the Arabs and the Jews following WWII, the British withdrew from Palestine; shortly thereafter the National Council and the General Zionist Council proclaimed from Tel Aviv the establishment of the sovereign state of Israel. The date was May 14, 1948. Since then, God's time clock has started ticking.

Jerusalem, A Burdensome Stone

Zechariah 12:2-3

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.

Isn't Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, the Palestinians and the Arabs? Jerusalem is now hated and in danger of being attacked by the Muslims. But God also says in this verse that 'all who heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.' Though Iran might try to attack Israel, they will never NEVER SUCCEED!

This was predicted long ago. Many ancient prophecies are unfolding before our eyes...but they could not be fulfilled until Israel was back in her land, as she is today after 2000 years in exile. Praise the Lord!