The Sign OF Jonah

Jonah 1:1-17

Now, THE WORD OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) CAME TO Jonah, The Son OF Amittai, SAYING, “ARISE, GO TO Nineveh, That Great City, AND CRY OUT AGAINST IT (Nineveh); FOR Their Wickedness HAS COME UP BEFORE Me (GOD Almighty).”  BUT, Jonah AROSE TO FLEE TO Tarshish, FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty).  He (Jonah) WENT DOWN TO Joppa, AND FOUND A Ship GOING TO Tarshish; SO He (Jonah) PAID The Fare, AND WENT DOWN INTO IT (The Ship), TO GO WITH Them TO Tarshish, FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty).

BUT, THE LORD (GOD Almighty) SENT OUT A Great Wind ON The Sea, AND THERE WAS A MIGHTY TEMPEST ON The Sea, SO THAT The Ship WAS ABOUT TO BE BROKEN UP.  THEN, The Mariners WERE AFRAID; AND Every Man CRIED OUT TO His god, AND THREW The Cargo That WAS IN The Ship INTO The Sea, TO LIGHTEN The Load.  BUT, Jonah Had Gone Down INTO The Lowest Parts OF The Ship, Had Lain Down, AND WAS FAST ASLEEP.

SO, The Captain CAME TO Him (Jonah), AND SAID TO Him (Jonah), “What DO YOU Mean, Sleeper?  ARISE, CALL ON Your GOD (GOD Almighty); Perhaps Your GOD WILL CONSIDER Us, SO THAT We May NOT Perish.”  AND They SAID TO One Another, “Come, Let Us Cast Lots, That We May KNOW FOR Whose CAUSE This Trouble HAS COME UPON Us.”  SO, They CAST LOTS, AND The Lot FELL ON Jonah.  THEN, They SAID TO Him (Jonah), “PLEASE TELL Us!  For Whose Cause IS This Trouble UPON Us?  What IS Your Occupation?  And Where DO YOU Come From?  What IS Your Country?  And OF What People ARE YOU?”  SO, He (Jonah) SAID TO Them, “I AM A Hebrew; AND I FEAR THE LORD, THE GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Heaven, WHO MADE The Sea AND The Dry Land.”

THEN, The Men WERE Exceedingly Afraid, AND SAID TO Him (Jonah), “Why Have YOU DONE THIS?”  For The Men KNEW That He (Jonah) FLED FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), BECAUSE He (Jonah) HAD TOLD Them.  THEN, They SAID TO Him (Jonah), “What Shall We DO TO YOU That The Sea May BE CALM For Us?” For The Sea WAS Growing More Tempestuous.  And He (Jonah) SAID TO Them, “PICK Me UP AND THROW Me INTO The Sea; THEN The Sea WILL BECOME CALM For YOU.  FOR I KNOW That THIS GREAT TEMPEST IS BECAUSE OF Me.”

Nevertheless, The Men ROWED HARD TO RETURN TO Land, BUT They COULD NOT, For The Sea Continued TO Grow MORE Tempestuous AGAINST Them.  Therefore, They CRIED OUT TO THE LORD (GOD Almighty) AND SAID, “We Pray, O LORD, Please Do NOT Let Us PERISH For THIS MAN’s Life, AND Do NOT CHARGE Us WITH Innocent Blood; FOR YOU, O LORD, HAVE DONE AS IT PLEASED YOU.”

SO, They PICKED UP Jonah AND THREW Him INTO The Sea, AND The Sea CEASED FROM ITS RAGING.  THEN, The Men FEARED THE LORD (GOD Almighty) EXCEEDINGLY, AND OFFERED A SACRIFICE TO THE LORD (GOD Almighty) AND TOOK VOWS.  Now, THE LORD (GOD Almighty) HAD PREPARED A GREAT FISH TO SWALLOW Jonah.  AND Jonah WAS IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH, Three (3) Days AND Three (3) Nights.

Jonah 2:1-10

THEN, Jonah PRAYED TO THE LORD His GOD, FROM THE FISH’s BELLY.  AND He (Jonah) SAID: “I CRIED OUT TO THE LORD BECAUSE OF My Affliction, AND He (GOD Almighty) ANSWERED Me (Jonah).  “OUT OF THE BELLY OF Sheol, I (Jonah) CRIED, AND YOU (GOD Almighty) HEARD My Voice.  FOR YOU CAST Me INTO The Deep, INTO The Heart OF The Seas, AND The Floods Surrounded Me; All Your Billows AND Your Waves PASSED OVER Me.

THEN I (Jonah) SAID, ‘I Have Been CAST OUT OF Your Sight; YET I Will Look Again, Toward YOUR HOLY TEMPLE.’  The Waters Surrounded Me, EVEN TO My Soul; The Deep CLOSED AROUND Me; Weeds WERE WRAPPED AROUND My Head.  I WENT DOWN TO The Moorings OF The Mountains; The Earth WITH ITS BARS CLOSED BEHIND Me, Forever; YET, YOU HAVE BROUGHT UP My Life, FROM The Pit, O LORD, My GOD (GOD Almighty).

“WHEN My Soul FAINTED WITHIN Me, I REMEMBERED THE LORD (GOD Almighty); AND My Prayer WENT UP TO YOU, INTO YOUR HOLY TEMPLE.  “Those Who regard worthless idols, FORSAKE Their Own Mercy.  BUT, I WILL SACRIFICE TO YOU, WITH THE VOICE OF THANKSGIVING; I WILL PAY WHAT I HAVE VOWED.  SALVATION IS OF THE LORD.”  So, THE LORD (GOD Almighty) SPOKE TO THE FISH, AND IT VOMITED Jonah (ALIVE) ONTO Dry Land.

Fellow Believers, Why Did Jonah Have TO GO THROUGH THIS TRIAL?  Well, BECAUSE Jonah Purposefully Sinned AGAINST GOD Almighty!  That’s Right, GOD Almighty TOLD Jonah TO GO TO Nineveh AND CRY OUT AGAINST IT, but what did Jonah do instead?  Jonah boarded a ship, in Joppa, heading for Tarshish.  So, what was GOD Almighty’s Punishment for This sin?  Jonah WAS TOSSED INTO The Sea, SWALLOWED BY A GREAT FISH, AND Jonah WAS IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH, Three (3) Days AND Three (3) Nights.

Folks, GOD Almighty CREATES A Specific Path, FOR EACH OF Us TO Walk; I call it, “GOD Almighty’s Path.”  FROM The Day We ARE CONCEIVED, We Begin Walking THIS PATH!  However, SIN TAKES Us AWAY FROM Walking This Path.

Once We Acknowledge GOD Almighty’s Amazing Saving GRACE AND Accept GOD Almighty’s FREE GIFT OF Salvation, Which Comes ONLY, THROUGH Jesus Christ, THEN We BEGIN Walking This Path, WITH PURPOSE IN MIND!  What is THIS PURPOSE, YOU ask?

Well, WITH GOD Almighty AS Our First Priority, Serving Him (GOD Almighty) IS Our TRUE PURPOSE, IN THIS, Our Natural Body Life!  Sharing The Gospel OF Jesus Christ WITH EVERYONE, Who Has EARS TO HEAR AND EYES TO SEE, THE TRUTH, IS Our Primary Goal, IN SERVING GOD Almighty.

GOD Almighty Gives Each of Us Spiritual Gifts, IN ORDER TO FULFILL Our Primary Goal.  We KNOW That Jesus Christ WALKS WITH Us, The Holy Spirit TEACHES Us, AND GOD Almighty WATCHES OVER Us, KNOWING THIS, Should FILL Each of Us WITH Comfort AND Confidence.

Now, TO The Main Point, GOD Almighty Charges Us WITH Specific Tasks, Which He (GOD Almighty) Commands Us TO Perform, just like Jonah.  It may be to pack up and move to another place; OR it may be to speak to a specific person; OR it may be to change professions; OR IT MAY BE TO Boldly Preach The Gospel OF Jesus Christ, Even Though We ARE ONLY Laypersons!

GOD Almighty SPEAKS TO Us, IN SO Many Ways, GOD Almighty SPEAKS TO Us, THROUGH HIS WORDS We READ, IN The Holy Bible.  GOD Almighty SPEAKS TO US, SPEAKS TO Our Hearts, AS We READ HIS WORDS, IN The Holy Bible.  GOD Almighty SPEAKS TO Us, SPEAKS TO Our Hearts, AS We Sleep AT Night, AND Throughout Our Waking Day.  GOD Almighty SPEAKS TO Us, AS We Commune WITH Him (GOD Almighty) THROUGH Prayer.  AND GOD Almighty SPEAKS TO Us, THROUGH Fellow Believers, as well.

GOD Almighty MIGHT BE SPEAKING TO YOU, Right Now, COMMANDING YOU, TO DO Something YOU Probably Do NOT Feel Comfortable Doing, Perhaps OUT OF Your Comfort Zone.  My Question For YOU, IS THIS, DO YOU WANT Your Own Personal “Sign of Jonah?”  DO YOU WANT TO Wake Up “IN The Belly OF A Great Fish”, SO TO SPEAK?

My Prayer, FOR EACH OF YOU, IS THIS, That GOD Almighty IS Your First Priority, That YOU Are Using Your Spiritual Gifts TO Share The Gospel OF Jesus Christ, That YOU ARE Jesus Christ’s LIGHT UPON THIS World (Satan’s World), AND Most Importantly, That YOU ARE Striving, Daily, TO ALLOW GOD Almighty TO MOLD YOU AND CHANGE YOU, TO BE MORE LIKE Him, AND LESS LIKE The Rest OF Mankind.

Fellow Believers, GOD Almighty, Jesus Christ, AND The Holy Spirit WILL GUIDE YOU, Daily, Even OUT OF Your Comfort Zone, SO, YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR THIS!  THIS IS Our TRUE PURPOSE, IN THIS LIFE, AND UNTIL “The Being Caught Up Together” OR GOD Almighty TAKING Us FROM THIS World (THROUGH Death), THIS REMAINS Our TRUE PURPOSE!

Revelation 3:10

Because YOU (Believers) Have KEPT My (Jesus Christ’s) COMMAND TO Persevere, I (Jesus Christ) ALSO WILL KEEP YOU (Believers) FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL (The Great Tribulation), Which Shall COME UPON The Whole World (Satan’s World), TO TEST Those (Unbelievers) Who Dwell ON The Earth.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17    

FOR THE LORD (Jesus Christ), Himself, WILL DESCEND FROM Heaven, WITH A SHOUT, WITH The VOICE of an Archangel, AND WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD (GOD Almighty).  AND The Dead IN Christ (Dead Believers) WILL RISE First.  THEN, We (Living Believers) WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN, Shall BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER, WITH Them (The Dead IN Christ), IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD (Jesus Christ) IN THE AIR.  AND THUS, We (Believers) Shall ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD (Jesus Christ).

Hebrews 12:22-24

BUT YOU (Believers) HAVE COME TO Mount Zion (Heaven) AND TO THE CITY OF THE LIVING GOD (GOD Almighty), THE HEAVENLY Jerusalem, TO AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF Angels (GOD Almighty’s Holy Angels), TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, WHO ARE REGISTERED IN Heaven, TO GOD (GOD Almighty) THE JUDGE OF ALL, TO The Spirits OF JUST Men (Believers) MADE PERFECT, TO Jesus, THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, AND TO THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING, THAT SPEAKS BETTER THINGS, Than That OF Abel.

The Being Caught Up Together May Occur IN The Next Millisecond.  SO, There IS NO Time TO Waste, GET OUT There, Show YOU Care, AND Share The Gospel OF Jesus Christ.

“SUDDENLY, We (Believers) WILL BE NO MORE; FOR Jesus Christ HAS TAKEN Us!”

The Day OF THE LORD

Joel 2:1-11

BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION, AND SOUND AN ALARM IN My Holy Mountain! Let All The Inhabitants OF The Land TREMBLE; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) IS COMING, FOR IT IS AT HAND: A Day OF Darkness AND Gloominess, A Day OF Clouds AND Thick Darkness, LIKE The Morning Clouds SPREAD OVER The Mountains.  A People COME, Great AND Strong, THE LIKE OF WHOM HAS NEVER BEEN; NOR WILL THERE EVER BE ANY SUCH AFTER Them, EVEN FOR Many Successive Generations.

A FIRE DEVOURS BEFORE Them, AND BEHIND Them A FLAME BURNS; The Land IS LIKE The Garden OF Eden BEFORE Them, AND BEHIND Them A Desolate Wilderness; SURELY NOTHING Shall ESCAPE Them.  Their Appearance IS LIKE The Appearance OF Horses; AND LIKE Swift Steeds, SO They RUN.  WITH A NOISE LIKE Chariots OVER Mountaintops They LEAP, LIKE THE NOISE OF A Flaming Fire That DEVOURS The Stubble, LIKE A Strong People SET IN BATTLE ARRAY.

BEFORE Them, The People WRITHE IN PAIN; All Faces ARE Drained OF Color.  They RUN LIKE Mighty Men, They CLIMB The Wall LIKE Men OF War; EVERY ONE MARCHES IN FORMATION, AND They Do NOT Break Ranks.  They Do NOT Push One Another; EVERY ONE MARCHES IN His Own Column.  THOUGH They LUNGE BETWEEN The Weapons, They ARE NOT CUT DOWN.  They RUN TO AND FOR IN The City, They RUN ON The Wall; They CLIMB INTO The Houses, They ENTER AT The Windows LIKE A Thief.

The Earth QUAKES BEFORE Them, The Heavens TREMBLE; The Sun AND Moon GROW DARK, AND The Stars DIMINISH Their Brightness.  THE LORD (GOD Almighty) GIVES VOICE BEFORE HIS ARMY, FOR HIS CAMP IS VERY GREAT; FOR STRONG IS THE ONE, WHO EXECUTES HIS WORD.  FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) IS GREAT AND VERY TERRIBLE; Who CAN ENDURE IT?

Zephaniah 1:2-18

“I WILL UTTERLY CONSUME EVERYTHING, FROM The Face OF The Land,” SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty); “I WILL CONSUME Man AND Beast; I WILL CONSUME The Birds OF The Heavens, The Fish OF The Sea, AND The Stumbling Blocks ALONG WITH The Wicked.  I WILL CUT OFF Man, FROM The Face OF The Land,” SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty).”

“I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND AGAINST Judah, AND AGAINST All The Inhabitants OF Jerusalem.  I WILL CUT OFF EVERY TRACE OF Baal, FROM THIS PLACE, The Names OF The Idolatrous Priests WITH The Pagan Priests, Those Who Worship The Host OF Heaven (The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars) ON The Housetops; Those Who WORSHIP AND SWEAR OATH, BY THE LORD, BUT, Who ALSO SWEAR By Milcom; Those Who HAVE TURNED BACK FROM FOLLOWING THE LORD, AND HAVE NOT SOUGHT THE LORD, NOR INQUIRED OF Him (GOD Almighty).”

BE SILENT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD GOD; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND, FOR THE LORD HAS PREPARED A SACRIFICE; He HAS INVITED His Guests.

“AND IT SHALL BE, IN THE DAY OF THE LORD’s SACRIFICE, THAT I WILL PUNISH The Princes AND The King’s Children, AND ALL SUCH, AS ARE Clothed WITH Foreign Apparel.  IN THE SAME DAY, I WILL PUNISH ALL Those Who LEAP OVER The Threshold, Who FILL Their Masters’ Houses WITH Violence AND Deceit.”

“AND THERE SHALL BE, ON THAT DAY,” SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty), “The SOUND OF A Mournful Cry FROM The Fish Gate, A Wailing FROM The Second Quarter, AND A Loud Crashing FROM The Hills.  WAIL, YOU Inhabitants OF Maktesh!  FOR ALL The Merchant People ARE CUT DOWN; ALL Those Who Handle Money ARE CUT OFF.”

“AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, AT THAT TIME, That I (GOD Almighty) WILL SEARCH Jerusalem WITH LAMPS, AND PUNISH The Men, Who ARE SETTLED IN Complacency, Who SAY IN Their Heart, ‘THE LORD (GOD Almighty) WILL NOT DO GOOD, NOR WILL He (GOD Almighty) DO Evil.’  Therefore, Their Goods Shall BECOME Booty, AND Their Houses A DESOLATION; They Shall BUILD Houses, BUT NOT Inhabit Them; They Shall PLANT Vineyards, BUT NOT Drink Their Wine.”

THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) IS NEAR; IT IS NEAR AND HASTENS QUICKLY.  THE NOISE OF THE DAY OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) IS BITTER; THERE The Mighty Men SHALL CRY OUT.  THAT DAY IS A DAY OF WRATH, A DAY OF TROUBLE AND DISTRESS, A DAY OF DEVASTATION AND DESOLATION, A DAY OF DARKNESS AND GLOOMINESS, A DAY OF CLOUDS AND THICK DARKNESS, A DAY OF TRUMPET AND ALARM, AGAINST The Fortified Cities AND AGAINST The High Towers.

“I (GOD Almighty) WILL BRING DISTRESS UPON Men, AND They Shall WALK LIKE Blind Men, BECAUSE They HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD (GOD Almighty); Their Blood Shall BE POURED OUT LIKE Dust, AND Their Flesh LIKE Refuse.”

NEITHER Their Silver NOR Their Gold Shall BE ABLE TO DELIVER Them, IN THE DAY OF THE LORD’s WRATH; BUT, The Whole Land Shall BE DEVOURED, BY THE FIRE OF HIS JEALOUSY, FOR He (GOD Almighty) WILL MAKE SPEEDY RIDDANCE OF ALL Those Who DWELL IN The Land.

Zechariah 12:1-9

THE BURDEN OF THE WORD OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) AGAINST Israel.  THUS SAYS THE LORD, WHO STRETCHES OUT The Heavens, LAYS The Foundation OF The Earth, AND FORMS The Spirit OF Man WITHIN Him (Mankind):  “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 (Jerusalem).

IN THAT DAY,” SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty), “I WILL STRIKE EVERY Horse WITH CONFUSION, AND ITS Rider WITH MADNESS; I WILL OPEN MY EYES ON The House OF Judah, AND WILL STRIKE EVERY Horse OF The Peoples WITH BLINDNESS.  AND The Governors OF Judah Shall SAY IN Their Heart, ‘The Inhabitants OF Jerusalem ARE My Strength, IN THE LORD OF HOSTS, Their GOD.’  IN THAT DAY, I WILL MAKE The Governors OF Judah LIKE A FIREPAN IN The Woodpile, AND LIKE A FIERY TORCH IN The Sheaves; They Shall DEVOUR All The Surrounding Peoples ON The Right Hand AND ON The Left, BUT Jerusalem Shall BE INHABITED AGAIN, IN Her Own Place, Jerusalem.”

“THE LORD (GOD Almighty) WILL SAVE The Tents OF Judah FIRST, SO THAT THE GLORY OF The House OF David AND THE GLORY OF The Inhabitants OF Jerusalem Shall NOT Become Greater Than That OF Judah.  IN THAT DAY, THE LORD (GOD Almighty) WILL DEFEND The Inhabitants OF Jerusalem; The One Who IS FEEBLE AMONG Them, IN THAT DAY, Shall BE LIKE David, AND The House OF David Shall BE LIKE GOD, LIKE The Angel OF THE LORD BEFORE Them.  IT Shall BE, IN THAT DAY, THAT I (GOD Almighty) WILL SEEK TO DESTROY ALL The Nations THAT COME AGAINST Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 14:1-15

Behold, THE DAY OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) IS COMING, AND Your Spoil WILL BE DIVIDED IN Your Midst.  FOR I WILL GATHER ALL The Nations TO BATTLE AGAINST Jerusalem; The City Shall BE TAKEN, The Houses RIFLED, AND The Women RAVISHED.  Half OF The City Shall GO INTO Captivity, BUT The Remnant OF The People Shall NOT BE CUT OFF FROM The City (Jerusalem).

THEN, THE LORD (GOD Almighty) WILL GO FORTH AND FIGHT AGAINST Those Nations, As He FIGHTS IN THE DAY OF BATTLE.  AND IN THAT DAY, His Feet WILL STAND ON The Mount OF Olives, WHICH FACES Jerusalem ON The East.  AND The Mount OF Olives Shall BE SPLIT IN TWO, FROM East TO West, MAKING A VERY LARGE VALLEY; Half OF The Mountain Shall MOVE TOWARD The North AND Half OF IT TOWARD The South.  THEN, YOU Shall FLEE, THROUGH MY MOUNTAIN VALLEY, FOR The Mountain Valley Shall REACH TO Azal.  YES, YOU Shall FLEE, AS YOU FLED FROM The Earthquake, IN The Days OF Uzziah, King OF Judah.  THUS, THE LORD My GOD WILL COME, AND ALL The Saints (Believers) WITH YOU.

IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IN THAT DAY, That There WILL BE NO Light; The Lights WILL Diminish.  IT Shall BE ONE DAY, WHICH IS KNOWN TO THE LORD (GOD Almighty), NEITHER Day NOR Night.  BUT AT EVENING TIME, IT Shall HAPPEN, THAT IT WILL BE LIGHT.

AND IN THAT DAY, IT Shall BE THAT LIVING WATERS Shall FLOW FROM Jerusalem, Half OF Them TOWARD The Eastern Sea AND Half OF Them TOWARD The Western Sea; IN BOTH Summer AND Winter IT Shall OCCUR.  AND THE LORD Shall BE King OVER ALL The Earth.  IN THAT DAY, IT Shall BE, “THE LORD IS ONE,” AND HIS NAME, ONE.

All The Land Shall BE TURNED INTO A Plain, FROM Geba TO Rimmon, South OF Jerusalem.  Jerusalem Shall BE RAISED UP AND INHABITED IN Her Place, FROM Benjamin’s Gate TO The Place OF The First Gate AD The Corner Gate, AND FROM The Tower OF Hananel TO The King’s Winepresses.  The People Shall DWELL IN IT; AND NO Longer Shall There BE Utter Destruction, BUT Jerusalem Shall Be SAFELY INHABITED.

AND THIS Shall BE THE PLAGUE, WITH WHICH, THE LORD WILL STRIKE All The People Who FOUGHT AGAINST Jerusalem: Their Flesh Shall DISSOLVE While They STAND ON Their Feet, Their Eyes Shall DISSOLVE IN Their Sockets, AND Their Tongues Shall DISSOLVE IN Their Mouths.  IT Shall COME TO PASS, IN THAT DAY, THAT A GREAT PANIC FROM THE LORD WILL BE AMONG Them.  EVERYONE WILL SEIZE the Hand OF His Neighbor, AND RAISE His Hand AGAINST His Neighbor’s Hand; Judah ALSO WILL FIGHT AT Jerusalem.  AND The Wealth OF All The Surrounding Nations Shall BE GATHERED TOGETHER: Gold, Silver, AND Apparel IN Great Abundance.  SUCH ALSO, Shall BE THE PLAGUE ON The Horse AND The Mule, ON The Camel AND The Donkey, AND ON All The Cattle That WILL BE IN Those Camps.  SO Shall THIS PLAGUE BE.

2 Peter 3:10-13

BUT, THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A Thief IN The Night, IN WHICH, The Heavens WILL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND The Elements WILL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT; BOTH The Earth AND The Works THAT ARE IN IT, WILL BE BURNED UP.  Therefore, SINCE ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED, What Manner OF Persons OUGHT YOU TO BE, IN Holy Conduct AND Godliness, LOOKING FOR AND HASTENING THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD (GOD Almighty), BECAUSE OF WHICH The Heavens WILL BE DISSOLVED, BEING ON FIRE, AND The Elements WILL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT?  Nevertheless, We (Believers), ACCORDING TO His Promise, LOOK FOR New Heavens AND A New Earth.  IN WHICH RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS.

[See Also: Amos 5:16-27 AND Isaiah 2:5-22]

The Being Caught Up Together May Occur IN The Next Millisecond.  SO, There IS NO Time TO Waste, GET OUT There, Show YOU Care, AND Share The Gospel OF Jesus Christ.

“SUDDENLY, We (Believers) WILL BE NO MORE; FOR Jesus Christ HAS TAKEN Us!”

Cyrus, King OF Persia

Ezra 1:1-11

Now, IN The First Year OF Cyrus, King OF Persia, That THE WORD OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), BY The Mouth OF Jeremiah, MIGHT BE FULFILLED, THE LORD (GOD Almighty) STIRRED UP The Spirit OF Cyrus, King OF Persia, SO That He King Cyrus) MADE A Proclamation, THROUGHOUT All His Kingdom, AND ALSO PUT IT IN WRITING, SAYING, THUS SAYS Cyrus, King OF Persia: All The Kingdoms OF The Earth, THE LORD GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Heaven HAS GIVEN Me.

AND He (GOD Almighty) HAS COMMANDED Me TO BUILD Him (GOD Almighty) A HOUSE AT Jerusalem, WHICH IS IN Judah.  Who IS Among YOU OF ALL His People?  MAY His (King Cyrus) GOD (GOD Almighty) BE WITH Him (King Cyrus), AND LET Him (King Cyrus) TO UP TO Jerusalem, WHICH IS IN Judah, AND BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Israel (HE IS GOD), WHICH IS IN Jerusalem.

AND WHOEVER IS LEFT, IN ANY PLACE, WHERE He DWELLS, LET The Men OF His Place, HELP Him, WITH Silver AND Gold, WITH Goods AND Livestock, BESIDES THE FREEWILL OFFERINGS, FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty), WHICH IS IN Jerusalem.

THEN, The Heads OF The Fathers’ HOUSES OF Judah AND Benjamin, AND The Priests AND The Levites, WITH ALL, Whose Spirits GOD (GOD Almighty) HAD MOVED, AROSE TO GO UP AND BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), WHICH IS IN Jerusalem.  AND All Those Who WERE AROUND Them ENCOURAGED Them, WITH Articles OF Silver AND Gold, WITH Goods AND Livestock, AND WITH Precious Things, BESIDES All That WAS WILLINGLY OFFERED.

King Cyrus ALSO BROUGHT OUT THE ARTICLES OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), Which Nebuchadnezzar HAD TAKEN FROM Jerusalem and put in the temple of his gods; AND Cyrus, King OF Persia BROUGHT Them OUT, BY The Hand OF Mithredath, The Treasurer, AND COUNTED Them OUT TO Sheshbazzar, The Prince OF Judah.

THIS IS The Number OF Them: Thirty (30) Gold Platters, One Thousand (1,000) Silver Platters, Twenty-Nine (29) Knives, Thirty (30) Gold Basins, Four Hundred AND Ten (410) Silver Basins OF A Similar Kind, AND One Thousand (1,000) Other Articles.  All The Articles OF Gold AND Silver WERE Five Thousand Four Hundred.  ALL THESE Sheshbazzar TOOK WITH THE CAPTIVES, WHO WERE BROUGHT FROM Babylon TO Jerusalem.

Ezra 2:1, 64-65, 68-70

Now, THESE ARE The People (The Children OF Israel) OF The Province (Babylon), Who CAME BACK FROM The Captivity, OF Those Who HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY, Whom Nebuchadnezzar, The King OF Babylon, HAD CARRIED AWAY TO Babylon, AND Who RETURNED TO Jerusalem AND Judah, EVERYONE TO His Own City.  [See: Ezra 2:2-63, for details]

The Whole Assembly Together WAS Forty-Two Thousand Three Hundred AND Sixty, BESIDES Their Male AND Female Servants, OF Whom, THERE WERE Seven Thousand Three Hundred AND Thirty-Seven; AND They HAD Two Hundred (200) Men AND Women Singers.

SOME OF The Heads OF The Fathers’ Houses, When They CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) WHICH IS IN Jerusalem, OFFERED FREELY, FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty), TO ERECT IT, IN ITS PLACE: According TO Their Ability, They GAVE TO The Treasury FOR THE WORK, Sixty-One Thousand (61,000) Gold Drachmas, Five Thousand (5,000) Minas of Silver, AND One Hundred (100) Priestly Garments.  SO, The Priests AND The Levites, Some OF The People, The Singers, The Gatekeepers, AND The Nethinim, DWELT IN Their Cities, AND All Israel IN Their Cities.

Ezra 5:11-16

AND THUS They Returned Us an Answer, SAYING: “We ARE The Servants OF THE GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Heaven AND Earth, AND We ARE REBUILDING THE TEMPLE, That WAS Built Many Years Ago, Which A GREAT KING OF Israel BUILT AND COMPLETED.

BUT BECAUSE Our fathers PROVOKED THE GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Heaven TO WRATH, He (GOD Almighty) GAVE Them (Our fathers) INTO The Hand OF Nebuchadnezzar, King OF Babylon, The Chaldean, Who DESTROYED THIS TEMPLE AND CARRIED The People (The Children of Israel) AWAY TO Babylon.

However, IN The First Year OF Cyrus, King OF Babylon, King Cyrus ISSUED A DECREE TO BUILD THIS HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty).  ALSO, The Gold AND Silver ARTICLES OF THE HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty), Which Nebuchadnezzar HAD TAKEN FROM THE TEMPLE, THAT WAS IN Jerusalem AND CARRIED INTO The Temple OF Babylon, THOSE, King Cyrus TOOK FROM The Temple OF Babylon, AND They WERE GIVEN, TO ONE NAMED Sheshbazzar, Whom He (King Cyrus) HAD MADE Governor.  AND He (King Cyrus) SAID TO Him (Sheshbazzar), ‘TAKE THESE ARTICLES; GO, CARRY Them TO THE TEMPLE SITE, THAT IS IN Jerusalem, AND LET THE HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty) BE REBUILT, ON ITS FORMER SITE.’  THEN, The Same Sheshbazzar CAME AND LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty), WHICH IS IN Jerusalem; BUT FROM THAT TIME, EVEN UNTIL NOW, IT Has Been Under Construction, AND IT IS NOT Finished.”

Isaiah 44:24, 28

THUS SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty), Your REDEEMER, AND HE WHO FORMED YOU FROM The Womb: “I AM THE LORD, WHO MAKES ALL THINGS, WHO STRETCHES OUT The Heavens, ALL ALONE, WHO SPREADS ABROAD The Earth, BY MYSELF; WHO SAYS OF (King) Cyrus, ‘He (King Cyrus) IS My Shepherd, AND He (King Cyrus) SHALL PERFORM ALL My Pleasure, SAYING TO Jerusalem, “YOU SHALL BE BUILT,” AND TO THE TEMPLE, “Your Foundation SHALL BE LAID.”’

Isaiah 45:1-13

“THIS SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty) TO His ANOINTED, TO (King) Cyrus, Whose Right Hand I HAVE HELD, TO SUBDUE Nations BEFORE Him (King Cyrus) AND LOOSE The Armor OF Kings, TO OPEN BEFORE Him (King Cyrus) The Double Doors, SO That The Gates WILL NOT BE SHUT: ‘I WILL GO BEFORE YOU AND MAKE The Crooked Places STRAIGHT; I WILL BREAK IN PIECES The Gates OF Bronze AND CUT The Bars OF Iron.  I WILL GIVE YOU The Treasures OF Darkness AND HIDDEN RICHES OF SECRET PLACES, That YOU MAY KNOW THAT I, THE LORD, WHO CALL YOU BY Your Name, AM THE GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Israel.

FOR Jacob, My Servant’s Sake, AND Israel, My Elect, I HAVE EVEN CALLED YOU (King Cyrus) BY Your Name; I HAVE NAMED YOU, THOUGH YOU Have NOT Known Me.  I AM THE LORD (GOD Almighty), AND THERE IS NO Other; THERE IS NO God, BESIDES Me (GOD Almighty). I WILL GIRD YOU, THOUGH YOU Have NOT Known Me, That They MAY KNOW, FROM The Rising OF The Sun TO ITS Setting, That THERE IS NONE, BESIDES Me (GOD Almighty).

I AM THE LORD (GOD Almighty), AND THERE IS NO Other; I FORM THE LIGHT AND CREATE Darkness, I MAKE PEACE AND CREATE Calamity; I, THE LORD (GOD Almighty), DO ALL THESE THINGS.’

“RAIN DOWN, YOU Heavens, FROM ABOVE, AND LET The Skies POUR DOWN RIGHTEOUSNESS; LET The Earth OPEN, LET Them BRING FORTH SALVATION, AND LET RIGHTEOUSNESS SPRING UP TOGETHER.  I, THE LORD (GOD Almighty), HAVE CREATED IT.”

“WOE TO Him, Who STRIVES WITH His Maker!  Let The Potsherd STRIVE WITH The Potsherds OF The Earth!  Shall The Clay SAY TO Him Who FORMS IT, ‘WHAT ARE YOU MAKING?’  OR Shall Your Handiwork SAY, ‘HE HAS NO HANDS?  WOE TO Him, Who SAYS TO His father, ‘WHAT ARE YOU BEGETTING?’  OR TO The Woman, ‘WHAT HAVE YOU BROUGHT FORTH?’”

THUS SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty), THE HOLY ONE OF Israel, AND His Maker: “ASK ME OF THINGS TO COME, CONCERNING My Sons; AND CONCERNING THE WORK OF My Hands, YOU COMMAND Me.

I HAVE MADE The Earth, AND CREATED Man ON IT.  I, My Hands, STRETCHED OUT The Heavens, AND All Their Host, I HAVE COMMANDED. I HAVE RAISED Him UP, IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND I WILL DIRECT All His Ways; He (King Cyrus) Shall BUILD My City (Jerusalem) AND LET My Exiles GO FREE, NOT For Price NOR Reward,” SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS (GOD Almighty).

[NOTE: IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE, READ 2 Chronicles 36:15-23, Ezra 1:1 THROUGH Ezra 5:17, Isaiah 44:24-28, AND Isaiah 45:1-13].

Fellow Believers, King Cyrus, King OF Persia, WAS CHOSEN BY GOD Almighty, NOT ONLY TO RELEASE The Children OF Israel, FROM Their Babylonian Captivity,  SO THAT They May RETURN TO Their Homeland, BUT ALSO, TO AIDE IN THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, THE HOUSE OF GOD Almighty, IN Jerusalem!

Everlasting Punishment

Daniel 12:2

AND Many OF Those Who Sleep IN The Dust OF The Earth Shall AWAKE, SOME (Believers) TO EVERLASTING LIFE, SOME (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) TO Shame AND Everlasting Contempt.

Everlasting Life MEANS, TO BE IN GOD Almighty’s Immediate Presence, WITH Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, GOD Almighty’s Holy Angels, AND All The Rest OF The Children OF GOD Almighty, For Eternity, FOREVER!

Everlasting Contempt MEANS, TO BE SEPARATED FROM GOD Almighty’s Presence, IN THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, For Eternity, FOREVER!

Matthew 25:31-34, 41, 46

“WHEN The Son OF Man (Jesus Christ) COMES IN HIS GLORY, AND ALL THE HOLY ANGELS WITH HIM, THEN HE WILL SIT ON THE THRONE OF HIS GLORY.  All The Nations WILL BE GATHERED BEFORE HIM, AND HE WILL SEPARATE Them (Mankind), One FROM Another, AS A Shepherd DIVIDES His Sheep FROM The Goats.  AND HE (Jesus Christ) WILL SET The Sheep (Believers) ON His Right Hand, BUT The Goats (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) ON The Left.  THEN, THE KING (Jesus Christ) WILL SAY TO Those (Believers) ON His Right Hand, ‘COME, YOU BLESSED OF My Father (GOD Almighty), INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU, FROM The Foundation OF The World.”

“THEN, HE (Jesus Christ) WILL ALSO SAY TO Those (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) ON The Left Hand, ‘DEPART FROM ME, YOU CURSED, INTO THE EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR The Devil (Satan) AND his angels (fallen angels and demons).  AND THESE (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) WILL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO ETERNAL LIFE.”

Luke 13:27-28

BUT, He (Jesus Christ) WILL SAY, ‘I TELL YOU I DO NOT KNOW YOU, WHERE YOU ARE FROM.  DEPART FROM Me, ALL YOU WORKERS OF INIQUITY (Evil/sin).’  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 (GOD Almighty), AND Yourselves (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) THRUST OUT.

John 3:18-20, 36

“He (Believers) WHO BELIEVES IN Him (Jesus Christ) IS NOT Condemned; BUT He (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) Who Does NOT Believe, IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, BECAUSE He (FALSE Believers) HAS NOT Believed IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD (GOD Almighty).  AND THIS IS THE CONDEMNATION, That THE LIGHT (Jesus Christ) HAS COME INTO The World, AND Men (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) Loved Darkness RATHER THAN LIGHT, BECAUSE Their Deeds WERE EVIL.  FOR EVERYONE Practicing Evil HATES THE LIGHT AND Does NOT COME TO THE LIGHT, LEST His Deeds Should BE EXPOSED.”

“He (Believers) WHO BELIEVES IN The Son (Jesus Christ) HAS EVERLASTING LIFE; AND He (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) Who Does NOT Believe The Son (Jesus Christ) Shall NOT SEE LIFE (Everlasting Life), BUT THE WRATH OF GOD (GOD Almighty) ABIDES ON Him (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers).”

John 5:28-29

“MOST ASSUREDLY, I (Jesus Christ) SAY TO YOU, He (Believers) WHO HEARS MY WORD AND BELIEVES IN Him (GOD Almighty), WHO SENT ME, HAS EVERLASTING LIFE, AND Shall NOT COME INTO JUDGMENT, BUT HAS PASSED FROM Death (The Second Death) INTO LIFE (Everlasting Life).

MOST ASSUREDLY, I (Jesus Christ) SAY TO YOU, THE HOUR IS COMING, AND NOW IS, WHEN The Dead WILL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON (Jesus Christ) OF GOD (GOD Almighty); AND Those (Believers) WHO HEAR WILL LIVE.  FOR AS THE FATHER (GOD Almighty) HAS LIFE IN Himself, SO HE (GOD Almighty) HAS GRANTED THE SON (Jesus Christ) TO HAVE LIFE IN Himself, AND HAS GIVEN HIM (Jesus Christ) AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO, BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN.

DO NOT MARVEL AT THIS; FOR THE HOUR IS COMING, IN WHICH, ALL Who ARE IN The Graves WILL HEAR His (Jesus Christ’s) Voice AND COME FORTH, Those (Believers) WHO HAVE DONE GOOD, TO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE (Everlasting Life), AND Those (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) Who HAVE DONE EVIL, TO The Resurrection OF Condemnation (The Second Death, The Lake OF Fire AND Brimstone).”

Revelation 19:20

THEN, THE BEAST (The Antichrist) WAS CAPTURED, AND WITH Him (The Antichrist), THE FALSE Prophet, Who WORKED SIGNS IN His (The Antichrist’s) Presence, BY WHICH, He (The Antichrist) DECEIVED Those (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) Who RECEIVED THE MARK OF THE BEAST (The Antichrist) AND Those (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) Who WORSHIPED His (The Antichrist’s) IMAGE.  THESE TWO (The Antichrist AND THE FALSE Prophet) WERE CAST, ALIVE, INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE.

Revelation 20:10, 11-15

The Devil (Satan), Who DECEIVED Them, WAS CAST (ALIVE) INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, WHERE THE BEAST (The Antichrist) AND THE FALSE Prophet ARE.  AND They (Satan, The Beast, and The False Prophet) WILL BE TORMENTED, DAY AND NIGHT, Forever and ever.

THEN, I (John) SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE AND Him (GOD Almighty) WHO SAT ON IT, FROM WHOSE FACE The Earth AND The Heaven FLED AWAY.  AND THERE WAS FOUND NO PLACE FOR Them (The Earth AND The Heaven).  AND I (John) SAW The Dead, Small AND Great, STANDING BEFORE GOD (GOD Almighty), AND BOOKS WERE OPENED.  AND Another BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE (Everlasting Life).

AND The Dead WERE JUDGED According TO Their Works, BY THE THINGS, WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS.  The Sea GAVE UP The Dead, Who WERE IN IT (The Sea), AND Death AND Hades DELIVERED UP The Dead, Who WERE IN Them (Death AND Hades).  AND They (The Dead) WERE JUDGED, EACH ONE, According TO His Works.

THEN, Death AND Hades WERE CAST (ALIVE) INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.  THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.  AND ANYONE (FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers) NOT FOUND WRITTEN, IN THE BOOK OF LIFE (Everlasting Life), WAS CAST (ALIVE) INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

Fellow Believers, One OF The Biggest Misconceptions, By FALSE Believers AND Unbelievers, IS THAT, There IS NO Such Thing AS ETERNITY.  Satan Has Convinced Them, That They Have NOTHING TO FEAR, Because Death IS The End OF Life, AND THERE IS NOTHING MORE.  Why Fear Something Which Does NOT Exist, Right?  WRONG!

ALL MANKIND WILL BE RESURRECTED!  ALL MANKIND WILL BE JUDGED!

EVERLASTING LIFE – IN GOD Almighty’s Immediate Presence, WITH Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, GOD Almighty’s Holy Angels, AND All The Rest OF The Children OF GOD Almighty, For Eternity, FOREVER!

EVERLASTING CONDEMNATION – SEPARATED FROM GOD Almighty’s Presence, IN THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, For Eternity, FOREVER!

THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE – ETERNITY SPENT WITH Satan, fallen angels, demons, The Antichrist, The FALSE Prophet, Death, Hades, AND All The Rest OF Those Whose Names Are NOT Written IN The Book Of Everlasting Life, Namely, FALSE Prophets, FALSE Teachers, FALSE Believers, AND ALL Unbelievers!