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     What is your vision for the Bride in the last days?

    Is it an "oracle" from God's Word? (1Peter.4:11)
    Or is it something you have heard on Radio, TV, 
    DVD, this Website or read in a book somewhere?     
    How are your spiritual eyes? Are they "dim"1 
    (weak of light - Psa.119:113) growing dull / blind -  
    Heb.5:11-14, 2Peter.1:4-9) as Isaac's was, or 
    are you awake and sober, watching and praying? 
    (Eph.1:18, Matt.24:42-42; 26:40, Acts.20:31,  
    1Cor.16:13, Col.4:2, 1Thes.5:6, 2Thes.4:5) 
    
    This set a course that resulted in Isaac being  
    deceived! If his sight was good he would have never  
    been deceived. (Gen.27:1-27) If our spiritual "eyes"  
    (i.e. our understanding of God's Word) grows weak  
    and "dull" we will also be deceived. (Spiritually, this  
    is a blemish  that will prevent you going on in the 
    "things of God."- 1Cor.2:1-14)

     We must have a "love for the truth!"
                                                                                                          (2Thes.2:1-11)
1.  Our new man  has five senses                                                           
     a.  Spiritual eyes, (Eph.1:18) 
     b.  Spiritual ears, (Matt.13:16-17, Rev.2:7, 17) 
     c.  Spiritual smell (1Cor.12:17) 
     d.  Spiritual taste (Col.2:21, Psalm.34:8, 1Peter.2:3) and 
     e.  Spiritual feelings. (Acts.17:27)(2Cor.5:17, Eph.4:24)

2.  Our spiritual eyes is our understanding in God's Word. 
     That the "eyes of your understanding being enlightened;"  
     that you "may know what is the hope of his calling, and what  
     the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." 
     (Eph.1:18-19, Matt.13:16, Luke.24:16, 25-31, Eph.4:18,    
     2Cor.3:13-16, 2Peter.1:9)
     a.  No Vision, no knowledge, no understanding = captivity. 
          (Isa.5:13, Prov.24:30-34) 
     b.  When the House of Judah went into the 70 year captivity  
          they said, "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange  
          land? (Psa.137:4-5)

3.  Isaac knew something was wrong  
     However because his "eyes were dim" (Gen.27:1) he was deceived. (Gen.27:18) The same 
     is true with our Spiritual senses. (Heb.5:14) His (Isaac's) sense of hearing, feeling, tasting 
     and smelling would have been confirmed by his sight! It is the same spiritually! 
     (1Cor.12:1-31; 15:46, Rom.1:20) 
     a.  His sense of hearing was good but he still had questions. (Gen.27:22) 
     b.  His sense of feeling was deceived. (Gen.27:23) 
     c.  His sense of tasting was deceived. (Gen.27:25)
     d.  His sense of smell was deceived. (Gen.27:27)

          Note: Do you sense like Isaac something is not quite right concerning what you believe 
          about the last days? This is your spiritual senses of hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling  
          telling you to confirm what you are sensing in the truth of God's Word. James wrote, "But  
          whoso looketh (seeing eye) into the perfect law of liberty, (the Word of God) and 
          continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall 
          be blessed in his deed." (James 1:25-26)

4.  The end time vision that most born again Christians have concerning the Bride
     a.  All those that are born of the Spirit  "see" a Bride! The Pre-Tribulation and the Post  
          Tribulation Doctrine (i.e. This Website) teaches there will be a Bride / City / Beloved City.
          (1)  There is a marriage of the Lamb. (Jesus - (Rev.19:7
          (2)  The Bride is the new Jerusalem. (Rev.21:9, Gal.4:21-31)
          (3)  The City that Abraham looked for. (Heb.11:10, Heb.12:22)
     b.  All those that are born of the Spirit  "see" that the Bride is the Church and Jesus is the  
          Bridegroom. The Pre-Tribulation and Post Tribulation doctrine believes the Church 
          is the Bride.
          (1)  That we should married to another. (Rom.7:4)
          (2)  We are "espoused" (engaged) to Christ now. (2Cor.11:1-3)
          (3)  Christ is the husband, the Church is the wife. (Eph.5:21-31)
     c.  All those that are born of the Spirit  "see" that there is a day ahead of the Church when the  
          Church will like Jesus. Perfect, without spot, without blemish, wrinkle or any such thing 
          (Eph.4:11-16, 5:26-27, 1John.3:2) before the wedding!

          Note: There will be a perfect Church (Eph.4:11-16) before the wedding because 
          Jesus cannot be unequally yoked in marriage. (2Cor.6:14-18)

   
How do you you see this change taking place?
         
What is your end time vision? (Prov.29:18) Many think the Church will  "come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Eph 4:13-14) in the "twinkling of an eye." (1Cor.15:51-52, 1Thes.4:13-18)

1.  Changed in the "twinkling of an eye"
     This is only speaking of our mortal bodies putting on imortality. (1Cor.15:1-58) This has  
     nothing to do with the Church becoming a Bride. "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall   
     not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
     trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall 
     be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on  
     immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall  
     have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is 
     swallowed up in victory." (1Cor.15:51-55)

2.  It is the washing of water by the Word that brings the change
     But "we all, with open face beholding as in a glass (mirror / Word of God James.1:22-24 ) 
     the glory of the Lord, are changed (Eph.5:26-27) into the same image (Eph.4:11-16) from 
     glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2Cor.3:18-4:1) It is the apostle, prophet, 
     evangelist, pastor and  teacher that are the "hammer...ax...(and tools) of iron" (1Kings.6:7) that  
     minister the Word of God to prepare the Church to be the Bride. (The Temple) Not the "twinkling  
     of an eye." (Review: Phase.2, Page.4 Solomon's Temle)

     Note: The last generation (those that are alive and remain - 1Thes.4:13-18) will experience the  
     completion of this change in the reality of the Feast of Tabernacles, on the day of atonement 
     Bride of Christ.

      

Does you vision see that there must be a change or else you will miss the Wedding?

Even in the Pre-Trib. Rapture teaching (vision) there is a warning to Chrisitians not to miss the Rapture. Once again, everyone is "sensing / discerning" the timing of God, but because of  a lack of understanding (i.e. "dim" spiritual eyes) in God's Word some are interpreting this incorrectly. What the Spirit is saying to the Churches, is do not miss your preparation. Today the door (Matt.25:1-13, Gen.7:16, Luke.17:26-27) is open and everyone has  been "accepted in the beloved." (Eph.1:6, Rev.20:9; 21:9-10, Heb.12:22) However, not everyone will not want to be prepared to wear their wedding garment. (Matt.22:1-14) It is not automatic!  We must follow the blueprint / pattern for the marriage of our High Priest the Lord Jesus Christ to be properly prepared.


Do you see why there needs to be a change?
     
As of this moment the Church (that is full of spots, blemishes, wrinkles) needs to be changed because we  are to be married to Christ. Most think it is a big banquet and with all the saints 
from the Old Testament and New Testament. Much like an end of year party! This misses the mark! (Phil.3:13-16) The purpose of the Marriage of Christ and His Church is seen in the married, 
Godly Woman in Rev.12:1-9. 

1.  (Review: Eschatology Two)
     a.  It is to produce the man child. (Rev.12:1-9)
     b.  Why? to cause war in heaven to remove Satan from heavenly places.
     c.  Before there can be a man child, there needs to be a wedding
     d.  Before there can be a wedding there needs to be a Bride (The Church) and a Bridegroom.  
          (The Lord Jesus Christ)
     e.  Before the Church can be married to Christ, she must be like him or else Jesus would be  
          unequally yoked.
      f.  The apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teaching have been given this charge. This is  
          where we are today! (Review all 12 Phases)

2.  Note: The Pre-Trib. doctrine teaches that the man child is Jesus, dismissing the very 
     purpose of the marriage. (When John saw this Rev.12 Woman, he was told that she "must be  
     herefafter" - future. Rev.4:1. How could this be Jesus?)     


Does your vision see that there will be an antichrist?     
    
Everyone agree's that the antichrist is revealed after the Marriage. (2Thes.2:1-10, 1John.2:18-19)
Everyone agree's that he will be reveal in his time, (2Thes.2:6, Rev.13:5) even though there is a
disagreement of how much time the antichrist will have. Everyone agree's that Jesus will destroy him with His Second Coming at the end of the Tribulation. (2Thes.2:8)

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