18 ) A PRAYER, an EXHORTATION to accept and await the LORD JESUS CHRIST
(See in detail The Wonderful Plan of Salvation elaborated by GOD in his immense Love, Justice and Wisdom: Chapters 57 & 58)
"Lord Jesus, I measure today the moral distance that separates me from You, I am not ready to meet You ; I need your forgiveness. I recognize that I have directed my own life and so I sinned against You. Lord Jesus, I thank You for your love and for that You came into the world to die for me. I believe that You died in my place as a ransom for me to satisfy The Divine Justice that I have despised throughout my life. I believe that You forgive me for You said, "I will not put out who comes to me" (John 6-37 and 1-12) and I believe Heavenly Father accepts me now as his child because He accepted your sacrifice for me, and now I want to put my trust in You Jesus, to receive You in my life and to follow You. Thank You for the forgiveness of my sins. Make me the person You want me to be. I want to be ready for the great day of your coming and meeting with You, with your help, I will walk with You and I will serve You to the end. I believe in You, I trust You for my life. "
Jesus said: to prepare, to watch and pray, to read to keep His Word, to have oil of the Holy Spirit in reserve, to do the will of His Father to be known to Him, to walk in sanctification without which no one will see the Lord, as Enoch walked with God before his rapture (Genesis 5-24). Do not practice sin or live in sin, be whole for Him. To walk in the fear of God, to honor the Holy Spirit who came to make his abode in the heart of the Christian, not to sadden him. This is the normal course and life of the faithful Christian. Colossiens 3 – 12/17 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering ; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another ; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearths, to which also you were called in one body ; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
The evening of the day is the Sunday of your day, reserve it to your Lord, stay awake waiting for His return. Be perfect as your Father is, with His help.
Only one thing has been above Jesus, a crown of thorns (symbol of the malediction of sin in Genesis 3 - 17/18 ; Marc 15 – 17); Only one thing has been "more powerful" than Jesus and killed Him: our sins. Moise has seen the Lamb of God in the bush of thorns which didn’t consume, but without undertstanding what he was seeing (in hebrew : Sene - bush of thorns; the Sinaï mountain come from the same hebrew root : sene, meaning maybe mountain of sufferings.) The man who receives the divin Law has not understood this vision, (but all the Law comes also through this vision of The lamb of God), he has seen afar off The One who want to become in us Who He really is, the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13 - 8) with an Everlasting Spirit of sacrifice (Hebrew 9-14). Jesus has been pierced on every side by our sins and has cried: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" Matthieu 27 – 46 Litteraly : My God, My God, why have you put me in this bush of thorns ("sabachthani" comes from an hebrew word which describe a bush of thorns from the desert, so dense, so full of thorns that it is impossible to open it without hurting you. If anything was captured inside of it, it would be impossible to take it out. Only one thing annihilated the strengh of the ram which Abraham offered instead of his son Isaac, the ram was caught in a bush by his horns.
If you stay in sin, God can do nothing for you, He will stay away from you, you will not be raptured. You must repent first and turn away from your sins. If you are proud of one thing you have done for the Lord without giving Him all the Glory, because He is The One who makes His Work through you and used you as His tool, you will not be raptured. No proud man will stay in front of Him, only one will be lifted high before The Father : JESUS. If you want everybody to hear your beautiful voice, to see your beauty, you will not be raptured (Esaiah 2 – 14/18). Humbly recognize in front of Him as Jesus said us : "Lord I am a useless servant, it is only You who bear me to accomplish Your Work ; it is only You who has make me what I am, it is Your Work" (Luc 17 – 7/10). Let us realize from which dirty pit Our Lord Jesus take us out from.
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
God seeks true worshipers in spirit and in truth, not people who want to be admired.
Jesus said to the sinner woman: Go and sin no more. He says the same to us, it is possible to go and sin no more. Lord I keep my eyes fixed on You and Your Word and I trust in You. Only repentance can allow us to turn away from sin and to get His immediate forgiveness to abide again IN CHRIST, the only Salvation Ark given to men by God, The New ADAM, who doesn’t sin anymore. He has taken the wrath of God and everybody who abide in Him, abide dead to themself and as living for God through Jesus-Christ. I have been crucified with Christ ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me ; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2 - 20
19 ) To be sure to be raptured
We must be sure to belong to the Bride of Christ. Because He might present Her to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that should be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5 - 27). It is Him who lead the Church to this status, but she must want and believe it according 1 Thessalonians 5 – 23/24 May the God of peace Himself santify you completely ; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. The Bride is only made of disciples who want to obey their Master. To be a disciple, we must so be born again, baptized of water and by The Holy Spirit (Matthew 28: 19-20 and Acts 1 – 4/5), as were all the disciples in the first church, as soon as they believed, and follow a life of holiness, continuing steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and in prayers (Acts 2 – 41/42). It is not a salvation by the works. But our faith in the grace of God leads us to accomplish good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2 - 10)!
Neither the baptism of water nor the baptism of the Spirit are conditions of salvation. Only repentance and faith in Jesus Christ are necessary to be saved and to have eternal life.
However, if we are to be part of the Bride who will be taken up to meet the Lord, then we must accept to live a life of disciples, learning to obey all that the Lord has commanded us, that is to say:
- Go through a baptism of water "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" after sincere repentance. (A baby can not do it, Jesus said with order : 1 The one who will believe and 2 will be baptized 3 will be saved. Mark 16-16 and whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in the midst of this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man shall be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels. Mark 8-38)
- To receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, in order to be clothed with the power from above and to be witnesses of Jesus Christ.
- To persevere in sanctification, without which no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 12-14).
Conditions for the Rapture:
- Inside attestation of the Holy Spirit Romans 8-16
- Being alive in Christ, Christ in us Ephesians
- Remaining in Him: 1 jean 2-28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. (If inner Insurance = Paraisia, then no shame at the Coming = Parousia)
- Without sanctification no one will see Him
- Be in possession of the Spirit with reserves Mathiew 25
- Being boiling and not lukewarm Revelation 3-16
- Winner of evil…
Hebrews 11-5 Before his rapture, Enoch had received the testimony that he was pleasing to God.
Isaiah 24 and 25: The prophecy that reveals Mount Zion
Isaiah 24-23 the LORD of hosts will reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, shining with glory in the presence of his elders.
Isaiah 25-6 The LORD of hosts prepares for all peoples, on this mountain, a feast of delicious foods, a feast of old wines, of succulent dishes, full of marrow, of old, clarified wines.
7 And on this mountain he destroyed the veil that covers all peoples, the covering that covers all nations; 8 He destroys death forever; The Lord Yahweh wipes away tears from all faces, He removes the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken.
On which mountain was Jesus crucified, buried, and emerged victorious from death through his resurrection?
The hill of Golgotha here called by God: Mount Zion
Isaiah 2-2 It shall come to pass in the course of time, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be founded on the top of the mountains (Litt : As leader, at the top, at the head), and shall be exalted above it. above the hills, and all nations will flow into it (Litt : and flow to all nations). 3 Many peoples will come there and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And out of Jerusalem the word of the LORD. 4 He will be the judge of the nations, the judge of many peoples. They will make pylons out of their swords, and pruning hooks out of their spears. Nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, Nor shall war be learned any more. 5 House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the LORD!
From the temple, the house of Messiah during the millennium will flow to Golgotha, Mount Zion, a river of living water which will divide in two on Golgotha, Mount Zion, and will flow east and West, to all nations - See Annex 5.