Jesus Will Demonstrate What Matters
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The 144,000 will
present the gospel of Jesus to the
world in four waves.* Each wave will
be presented as a nonnegotiable
demand. During the first wave,
everyone will be told, “Fear
God and give Him glory, because the
hour of His judgment has
come….” (Revelation
14:7) The 144,000 will announce the
commencement of the judgment of the
living. They will inform the
inhabitants of the Earth that our
faith in Christ will be tested and
Jesus Christ Himself will judge us.
Each person will “…appear
before the judgment seat of Christ,
that each one may receive what is due
him for the things while done while
in the body, whether good or
bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10)
The Holy Spirit, speaking through
the 144,000 will explain the test, “…
And worship Him who made the Heavens,
the Earth, and the sea and springs of
water.”
(*Note: Four
angels will be sent to the 144,000
with four messages from God’s
throne to the world. For further
study on these four messages, please
visit this link:
www.wake-up.org/videos/video.htm and view the
May-July 2007 video segments or you
can read the accompanying pdf notes.)
The heavens, earth
[land], sea, and springs of water are
mentioned in the first angel’s
message because these four elements
make up the foundation of our planet.
Everyone will see and feel the
enormity of Christ’s power and
His authority over the heavens,
earth, sea, and springs of water
during the first four trumpets. (The
heavens are darkened in the fourth
trumpet, a third of the Earth is
burned up in the first trumpet, an
asteroid will impact the sea in the
second trumpet, and an asteroid
impact will contaminate the springs
of water in the third trumpet.) The
power displayed at the beginning of
the Great tribulation will
demonstrate to everyone that out
Creator’s power over the
foundations of this planet cannot be
challenged or overthrown.
An overwhelming
display of power is needed to shatter
the religious paradigms of the world.
God has predetermined that every
person within every nation will hear
about Jesus Christ, His incredible
love, and His generous salvation. The
full gospel cannot be proclaimed
throughout the world currently
because of religious arrogance. After
2,000 years, only 25% of the world
claims to be Christian and everyone
knows that Christianity is a divisive
and fragmented as any other religious
system. Even though they come from
all over the world and will not know
each other, God’s servants, the
144,000, will be on the same page
because the Holy Spirit will speak
through them. They will tell the
world to give Jesus glory! What does
it mean to give glory to God? How
does a child give glory to his
parents? When a child embraces and
exalts the values extolled by his
parents, he brings glory to his
parents by reflecting their
character. Giving glory to God is no
different. God insists that we
reflect His character because His
character is one of love. Giving
glory to God means embracing
God’s truth and exalting His
righteousness, having a clear head, a
heart of love, and hands free of
guilt.
Religious
Heritage Will Disappear
This might come as a
shock to some readers, but the Bible
predicts that everyone will be forced
to abandon their religious heritage
during the Great Tribulation.
(Revelation 13:15) Every religious
organization on Earth will be
abolished at the sixth trumpet. The
Catholic Church will be abolished.
Islam will disappear. Judaism will be
terminated. Eastern Mysticism will be
no more. This will be possible
because the fifth trumpet the devil
will physically appear on the Earth.
After convincing the world that he is
Almighty God, he will set up a
one-world theocracy with himself as
King of kings and Lord of lords at
the sixth trumpet. Everyone will be
required to join and worship his
theocracy or be killed. A time is
coming when the world’s
religions will become meaningless.
God permits this because
paradoxically, most people worship
their religion instead of God! This
is proven by the fact that most
people cannot move forward with
God’s truth because religion
cannot change. In spite of this,
within the religions of the world,
millions of people, like Cornelius,
will embrace the gospel of Jesus
Christ during the Great Tribulation
and will gladly give Him glory! They
will thoughtfully submit to
Christ’s authority in spite of
terrible persecution. I know this
sounds strange now, but a numberless
multitude from every nation, kindred,
tongue, and people will step outside
of their religious beliefs and
culture to worship Jesus. (Revelation
7:9-17)
Jews will be
worshiping Jesus, Moslems will exalt
Jesus over Mohammed, Hindus will
worship Jesus as the only true God,
and Catholics will abandon church
sacraments and pout their faith in
Christ. Atheists and agnostics will
praise the name of Jesus, Protestants
will embrace the law of God, and all
people will worship Jesus on His holy
day! God’s Spirit will be poured
out on all flesh and the result will
be astonishing! These coming events
tell us that God is not so much
concerned with our current beliefs as
He is with our honesty and dedication
to what we believe to be truth. When
God clearly shows the world His
truth, those who love truth will
embrace it and this will also bring
glory to Him! Think about this:
Truth, to the honest in heart,
behaves like the element iron in the
presence of a magnet. When a magnet
is brought close, the iron will
respond – but aluminum and
copper will not.
Bottom line: God will
demonstrate during the Great
Tribulation that salvation is not
church specific. People like
Cornelius will be eager to learn more
and the numberless harvest that comes
out of the Great Tribulation will
demonstrate to the universe that God
has and has always had children in
every religious system. God’s
people will defy the laws of Babylon
when they hear the 144,000 speak the
Second Angel’s message.
(Revelation 14:8) Remember, the
church of Jesus Christ is not a
denomination. His church
consists of people who love truth and
exalt righteousness. Many people have
been misled into thinking that
belonging to some church is important
or necessary for salvation. This is
false. When Jesus comes, He will not
gather up THE church, He will gather
up individuals like Cornelius who
makes up HIS church! . May God
transform our hearts and open our
minds so that we might eagerly
embrace the full gospel of Christ as
Cornelius did.
Larry Wilson
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