Nearing Midnigh: Prophecy Ponderings - Terry James - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
Colorado Springs is a beautiful and fascinating place to be sure. My brother-close friend, Mike Hile, and I had a "room with a view," as is said in hotel rhetoric.
The fourteen-thousand-foot peaks filled the skyline just outside our seventh-floor window in the Marriot. Of course, I couldn't see the scenery, but the descriptive I heard from Mike and others filled my memory and imagination with more than enough visual reality to convince me of the vista that lay just outside.
We were there for me to speak at the second annual Prophecy in the News Pike's Peak prophecy conference. The rarified air--and I mean literally as well as spiritually-- was troubling on the one hand and fortifying on the other. Literally, I could just not adjust this year to the thinner oxygen level as last year when I spoke there. It seemed almost as if the air had changed--that my body just couldn't quite catch up to the oxygen intake level required to be comfortable.
However, the human ambience and fellowship were fortifying and refreshing. The speakers were up to the task of filling our need for rejuvenation of mind and spirit. The renewing of friendships and acquaintances more than met our expectations.
The conference, held at seven thousand-plus feet above sea level, seems, in retrospect--for me, personally--a sort of metaphor for this strange moment of history. With all of the powerful dynamics going on in the world at this moment, life for the prophecy student is both troubling and at the same time exciting. The times that are pressing in on us sometimes make it hard to breathe in the sense of the anxiety produced when thinking on what's coming down the proverbial pike that might adversely affect our lives.
Knowing that just outside our cocoon of earthly angst, however, lies the most beautiful scenery imaginable-- and knowing that we will soon be inheritors of the glory that vista represents--is exciting and uplifting to our born-again spirits.
Bible prophecy from the pre-trib viewpoint makes understandable much of the troubling aspects of things transpiring all around us. This viewpoint makes these troubling times negotiable--i.e., able to get through until Christ shouts "Come up hither!"
The speakers at this prophecy summit described in vivid terms the vista that Bible prophecy presents. They spoke superbly of the things that are leading to the brilliant time that awaits the Christian. Like in the matter of my own inability to see the beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountains surrounding our hotel, our earthly, physical limitations prevent our seeing the magnificent reality that is our future. The Power Point words and pictures the speakers presented lit our imaginations the way the descriptive of those marvelous mountains I was given made my memory of once seeing those scenes come alive.
The stormy times we are currently going through serve only to make us know just how near might be Christ's shout that will set us upon our journey with Him as recorded in John 14:1-3.
The conference presenters spoke to issues and events of prophetic matters both familiar and to those rarely explored. Some who study Bible prophecy are off-put, even disgruntled, when such matters as those of the Genesis chapter 6 story are fully explored. But, Jesus, Himself, spoke to the fact that times will be like they were in the days of Noah when He returns to planet earth. Despite the fact the seminaries teach almost exclusively that the "sons of God" of Genesis 6 are not fallen angels, even a cursory study of Hebrew terms show in crystal-clear fashion that the "sons of God" are exactly that rebellious horde. The giants of those antediluvian times, like it or not, believe it or not, were a part of Noah's day. The very genetics of mankind were totally corrupted, biblical description affirms.
The Pike's Peak Prophecy Summit addressed some of these lesser-explored things of earth's past and what it all portends for earth's future. At the same time, other prophetic indicators we see all around us were thoroughly explored. Chief among those signs of the end times examined was the nation Israel and its increasingly becoming the focal point of world hatred.
While U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry publicly proclaims Israel to be a close ally, the Obama administration continues to demand that Israel agree to counterproductive ceasefires, and embraces at every juncture Israel's enemies as they fire rockets against innocent civilians. As a matter of fact, the administration just gave the Palestinian aggressors (read Hamas) $47 million, while refusing to help provide partial funding to help resupply Israel's Iron Dome defensive armaments that destroy incoming missiles. Fortunately, Congress passed a last-minute bill to provide funding for the Iron Dome arsenal just before beginning its five-week recess.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise, as shown by movement within Europe. ___ European cities are braced for violent clashes this weekend as people take to the streets to protest against Israeli military operations in Gaza. Thousands of police are being deployed in cities across Europe with Berlin alone deploying 1,500 police officers in a response and authorities in Paris have sought to ban outright marches planned for this weekend. (Rapture Ready News, July 27, 2014)
Likewise, America is more and more exhibiting hatred for Jews.
Jewish students shown 'photos of ovens and told to get in' by classmates in Chicago A school principal has been reassigned after a series of shocking bullying incidents that targeted Jewish students. ...Ogden International School of Chicago principal Joshua VanderJagt asked to be reassigned because "challenges" arose after two students - one 14 years old and one 8 years old - suffered repeated threats by classmates. (Rapture Ready News, July 27, 2014)
One of my Power Point presentations (thanks to Dana's creative and technical input) at Colorado Springs was on Israel and the satanic rage that is growing throughout the world today. This, I am convinced, is the number-one signal of just how far advanced this generation is in nearness to the Tribulation. All the Bible prophecy student who adheres to the pre-trib view has to do to know we are on the very cusp of entering that glorious realm just outside these bonds of this fallen planet is to observe treatment of God's chosen nation hour by hour. We are almost there!
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