All Doves:
The Scriptures tell us to "Watch". The KJV Bible contains the word "Watch" 61 times in 57 verses of Scripture. 22 of those are explicitly found in the New Testament Gospels. There are 8 more occurrences found from Acts to Revelation. Other derivatives like "watching" or "watched" or "watchman" or "watchmen" increase the theme to over 100 occurrences.
The purpose of a "watchman" is to warn the people. Teachers of the Bible are watchmen. Ministers of the sacred Word are watchmen. The saints (believers) are watchmen. A person watches for things they believe will happen. They believe these things will happen, because there is evidence of some kind to confirm the unusual. We "watch", because the Bible tells us of certain events that will come to pass. It gives us certain things to watch for. We watch, because God commands us to do so. When certain events come to pass, we are to warn others of what is yet to come. We warn them to prepare themselves. We warn the people, so they may not perish. If they choose not to believe and heed warning, their blood is upon themselves. But if we we are unfaithful and do not warn the people, their blood is upon us as watchmen.
Such a warning may be due cause for what is taking place currently inside the Beltway of Washington, DC. Twenty-two US Senators have introduced a bill into the 113th Congress, second session. The bill is S.2277 which is "to prevent further Russian aggression towards Ukraine and other Sovereign States in Europe and Eurasia, and for other purposes." Despite the conclusion by US intelligence that there is no evidence of Russian involvement in the destruction of the Malaysian airliner and all lives on board, Washington is escalating the crisis and shepherding the World toward war. The international banksters at the IMF and World Bank have been doing everything possible to provoke a war between Russia and the Ukraine, through the geopolitical efforts of the USA/EU/NATO. While Putin may be a better chess player than Obama, Obama is simply taking orders and carrying out those orders and is just a talking head for the Illuminati banksters. Many think tanks and formidable intelligence analysts are predicting that a preemptive nuclear strike is in the offering and will be launched against the Russian state in the near future. If that is the scenario, and the intelligence insiders are correct, it's time to review the Ezekiel 38 & 39 scenario. What gives added credence to this report is the important lineage insight to this is the fact that Israel and the Ukraine have been quite cozy over the past few years. Does that strike you as somewhat odd? Well it shouldn't when you understand there has been a centuries-old lineage tie between the people of the Ukraine region (home of the Khazarian Empire). Today, 90% of Israeli Jews are Ashkenazi that trace their genetics back to the Khazarian Empire of the 10th and 11th centuries AD. Only 10% of Israeli Jews are Sephardic or descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This genetic facts were revealed two years ago by a group of world-class geneticists at Johns-Hopkins University Medical Center. Israel's Sephardic or Biblical Jews are treated with disdain by the Israeli government, which ought not to be the case.
Consider the following sampling of passages that call for believers to "Watch":
Ezekiel 3:17 - "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the words at my mouth, and give them warning for me."
Ezekiel 33:7 - "So thou, Son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them for me."
Matthew 24:42 - "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."
Matthew 25:13 - "Watch therefore; for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."
Matthew 26:41 - "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is willing is weak."
Mark 13:33 - "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is."
Mark 13:34 - "For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch."
Mark 13:35 - "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning."
Mark 13:37 - "And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch."
Mark 14:38 - "Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak."
Luke 21:36 - "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."
1st Thessalonians 5:6 - "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober."
Revelation 3:3 - "Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee."
Matthew 24:43 - "But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up."
Luke 12:37 - "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them."
Luke 12:39 - "And know this, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through."
Hebrews 9:28 - "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation."
How can a person "watch", if they cannot read and their minister does not tell them these things? Many fulfilled prophecies indicate the Tribulation is very close. The Tribulation is preceded by the Rapture. In the more than a dozen passages above, the implied inference is that we are to be watching for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture.
We are the latter day generation, or that period of time that will see the Rapture, the Tribulation, and the return of the Lord Christ Jesus to Earth to rule and reign with great power and great glory. You may not realize it but you are called to be watchmen as well, not just those in leadership and pastoral ministry. There is a warning in Ezekiel 33:2-6, "When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people, then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning ; his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand."
Over the years, I have noticed a gradual shift away, on the part of pastors that do not teach that part of the Bible lest they fear what others say. They do not want to be ridiculed and persecuted, or even fired from their position.
This is exactly and precisely what the situation and the implications were regarding the Laodicean Church era spoke about in Revelation 3. Instead of discussing the troublesome times we are in, and sounding the trumpet, most of the church today are asleep, or listening to televangelists like Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyers, Joel Osteen, and other prosperity gospel teachers raking in billions. The televangelists rake in $2.5-billion dollars yearly, according to IRS records. I'm no fan of the IRS, since the 16th amendment was never legally passed or ratified by the states, but they provide a source of information of just how believers are fleeced of their wealth by the rock star preachers. Shame shame shame!
We are to be watching, alert, and at work. While none of these passages state explicitly that the Pre-Tribulation Rapture of believers will take us before the Tribulation, the implied and inferred message is more than amply clear. One would have to be an idiot not to see the message between the lines of Scripture. There are many more that I did not list, however, the Pre-Tribulation Rapture is for those looking for His coming in the clouds to call us up. We are to be sharing this message with anyone that will listen or read a tract.
Keep looking up, because the signs are all there! Warn your loved ones to get their spiritual life in order. I read or scan more than a thousand news reports a day, and I have an ability to discern the important news and can analyze the larger puzzle picture of geo-political events that are framing a Biblical scenario on the near horizon.
Everyday, the news and the world events confirm, like a musical symphony, a crescendo is building, that a big event is on the horizon. My hope for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, has been for Rosh HaShanah. I came to that conclusion twelve years ago and so my Blessed Hope is for September 25/26th. If it isn't this year, I am reconciled to the fact that we may yet have another year to reach the lost and misguided with the saving message of Christ Jesus. Nothing has influenced my opinion as much as the fact that I shared above about our government leaders calling for or wanting to do a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia. The implications of such insane mad thinking are horrific. Anyone thinking Russia will simply fade away without a response is out of their noodle.
God bless,
Pastor Bob