“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13, KJV).

We women know what “nesting” means, don’t we? The term refers to one who is about to get married and set up one’s own home, or a woman who is about to give birth, or a mother who has adopted a child and is waiting to bring him/her home. We know that nesting is that female maternal instinct that kicks in during the last few weeks or days before one’s wedding, or the birth of a child – before a little one makes his/her appearance in your home.

Nesting is the instinctual need an expectant mother feels when the birth of her child is imminent – a need to “get her house in order” – to have everything in her home clean, all clutter cleared away, and everything prepared, ready for the big change that’s coming – a change beyond which she will never be the same and which will turn her into a wife or a mother.

During those last few weeks and days, expectant mothers – whether giving birth themselves or becoming mothers through adoption – nearly every mother-to-be goes through an almost physical need to prepare herself and her home so that everything is ready when the baby arrives.

I remember right before each of my children were born, I nearly drove my husband bonkers trying to get everything just right. I’m a bit OCD by nature, so being pregnant and a tad OCD was for him a double horror to endure, I’m sure. (Ha ha!)

So, what does all this talk about nesting, and cleaning, and preparing, and birthing babies have to do with the price of beans in Peru (or this post), you may ask? Well, bear with me a moment and I’ll try to explain.

To me, I see our imminent departure via the rapture as a sort of birthing process. Waiting for the rapture is a bit like waiting for a baby to be born. For one thing, unless one is induced, the exact time for when the birth will take place cannot be known; so, in those last couple of weeks or days of pregnancy, labor can literally start at any time. Each mother knows the imminence of birth as it gets closer to the time when the birth is expected. We know by the signs of the approaching end of gestation that birth is imminent just like we, the Remnant Church, know by the prophesied end-times signs that the event of the rapture is imminently upon us, now that all prophetic indicators are either already in place or in play.

Another way in which giving birth and the rapture can be compared is that after each event, lives are changed forever. It’s not just the mother whose life is forever altered once she gives birth or adopts a child, but the father’s life as well. Just as all of us who have been “birthed” into the kingdom of God are changed by our salvation, we too will be eternally changed when we receive our new glorified bodies at the resurrection/rapture. In a real sense, the rapture will be our birth into a new and glorified eternal existence.

I don’t know if anyone else is getting the nesting urge the closer we get to the rapture, but I certainly am. Let me try to explain.

Ever since Israel’s rebirth in May 1948, the worldwide Church as a whole has been on high alert; well, those who understand the prophetic significance of Israel being back in her land have been. But over the last 15 years, prophecy watchers have been on heightened alert; and just in the past 5 years, the Remnant Church has gone to Defcon 1. For the past couple of years, watchmen and women have been on high alert; and ever since the beginning of this year, 2020, those of us who eagerly await our deliverance have been nearly electric with anticipation and expectation. We KNOW that Jesus is literally “at the door.” We can feel it in our bones.

For me, that sense of…what? Urgency? High-level urgency, has manifested in very much the same way as my nesting instincts did right before I gave birth to each of my children.

So many of us have been diligently and urgently sharing the gospel, contending for the faith, and doing all we can to prepare our lost family and friends for the coming aftermath of the rapture when we will be caught up by our Lord, and they left behind. In truth, most all of us have done all we know to do to try to urge them to come to salvation NOW. Sadly, the majority of those we’ve been so desperate to reach still refuse to heed our increasingly desperate pleas to believe unto salvation NOW.

There really isn’t much MORE, if anything, that we can say or do to reach them at this point since most continue to harden their hearts to the calling and wooing of the Holy Spirit. It looks as if our warnings will continue to fall on deaf ears, at least until the reality of the rapture hits. Tragically, for many, it’s going to take nothing less than the cataclysmic event of the rapture itself to shake them from their complacency and stupor. It’s going to take the rapture itself to rock their world enough get their attention, and that’s where my “nesting” issue comes in.

Back in 2011, or thereabouts, I felt compelled to write a letter to the left behind who may one day show up at my house looking to see if my family and I are among the missing. I wrote the letter and my son printed it out for me. I put the letter into one of those large gold manilla envelopes and taped it to the side of my fridge where it is clearly visible to anyone who comes through our back door or from the patio. I addressed it thusly: TO WHOMEVER IT MAY CONCERN – A MESSAGE FROM ONE OF THE MISSING. It’s been taped to my fridge since 2011. It’s still there now.

A few years later, somewhere around 2016 or so, I felt impressed to gather my rather extensive Bible study notes and series along with several chosen books from authors such as Dave Hunt and others; and I put them all into a big rolling suitcase with as many Bibles as we had in our house – about 7 or 8 of them (we all use the Bible apps on our phones). My husband and I placed all of these in with the study notes and books. This case we placed in a conspicuous place in our garage room where it will be easily seen.

Another thing we as a family felt impressed to do was to store a little extra non-perishable food items and other things such as extra batteries that we use and that might come in handy and place these things in the garage and throughout the house just in case. Now, we are NOT preppers, and our house is small, so we don’t have a lot of stuff, but we do have a little bit we try to keep set aside.

That’s where we have been until this year. When 2020 rolled in along with Covid, riots, and prophetic events ramping up in overdrive, I am sensing even more the need to do several things more:

Number 1 – We as a family have been doing our best to keep our home in both good order and in good repair as we have the energy and financial ability to do – keeping things neat and fixing things that have been needing fixing for a while. We’re mostly good but we still have a little bit to do if we have the time and money to do them.

Number 2 – I have specifically felt impressed to pray for any people who God MAY lead to our home for whatever time He allows this house to stand.

Number 3 – I have felt strongly impressed to pray that the Lord, if He so chooses, would use this house as a safe haven and a place of refuge and worship for any Tribulation believers who may come here, for as long as the Lord sees fit to provide it.

See, that’s one reason why I’ve felt so strongly about making my house as clean and as comfortable as possible and to fill it with Bibles, Bible studies, books, and other necessities as much as we are able. I sense that we as a family are “prepping” – praying, and preparing for those who will become Tribulation saints.

Now, I have no clue whether or not this house will survive for 5 seconds after the rapture. It could be flattened within the first 5 minutes of the rapture, or God may keep it safe and ready for a while longer. Only God knows His plans for our little house once we are gone. But what I sense and feel is that strong nesting urge to, if nothing else, leave my home in order as much as I am able, or if God so wills, have it ready for whomever may come looking for shelter, and perhaps finding salvation and a place of refuge.

So yes, my nesting instincts are in high gear now. I am now praying for those who will come to salvation after we are gone, as I now also pray specifically for the 144,000 Jewish young men who will arise in Israel and who will go forth to evangelize the world after the Church is no longer here.

I know that many of you are as weary and discouraged as I have been, knowing that all our warnings and pleas are falling on deaf and unconcerned ears. It is beyond discouraging to have almost no one care to hear the gospel or want to know what is coming. I think we need to change our perspective. We need to realize that our primary focus now may well be those who are going to be left behind. These are they who are our focus now. So, when you feel despondent and discouraged, just start “nesting,” even if your nesting is only in prayer. What you will be doing is laying the foundation for all those who will be frantic to know the truth once we are gone and they can no longer reach us to find out all that they were too busy, too scared, or too foolish to learn while we were still here to help them.

As you are able, prepare your homes to be their haven – their refuge, and most importantly, their library of spiritual knowledge. Place Bibles everywhere in your house that you can. You can get Bibles at Dollar Generals for a dollar each. Buy tracts on the ABC’s of salvation and put them in each Bible. Write a letter to be found by those left behind. Print out as many of the posts and series archived here and other Biblically sound groups, Facebook pages, and websites and put them in a box, plastic tub, or in an unused suitcase. Set aside a bit of canned goods and maybe some rice and beans – not much, just a little, and right now begin to pray for the ones God may lead to YOUR house where they can find the truth and meet the Savior.

See, I truly believe that our departure is much closer than we may even dare to think or hope; but even if we’re still here this time next year (God forbid!), well, that just gives us even more time to prepare our earthly “nest” for those who will find our houses after we are gone

Oh, and one last thing – a warning: DON’T get caught up in any worldly preparations, plans, or dreams. Be good stewards of all we are blessed to have been given, but ALWAYS hold onto everything with loose hands, ready to drop it all in a final heartbeat or when we hear that shout that we are all so longing to hear!

Until He calls for us in the air, happy nesting!

MARANATHA!

Our most holy Lord Jesus, our hearts are nearly crushed beneath the weight of this evil world in which we are trapped. We are like strangers in a strange land longing to go home. Lord, we come before Your throne of grace, not in arrogance, God forbid, but with our hearts bowed down before You in deepest gratitude and humility knowing that we are but dust, and that we can only approach You because of the righteousness of the One who gave Himself for us. Lamb of God, we bow before those blessed, precious nail-pierced hands and feet who “carried our sins and bore our sorrows.”

Oh mighty Lord, we come before You now, pleading for You to please, PLEASE come get your people; to PLEASE delay no longer, Lord! Merciful Lord, Your bride worldwide is beyond weary; we are heartbroken, downtrodden, and desperate to go Home to a place we’ve never been before. Lord, you foretold the Philadelphia Church of which we are now a part, You know that we “have but a little strength.” Yet, still You promised that You would remove us FROM the “hour of testing” that is about to come upon the whole world. Father God, we long for that rescue now.

Oh Lord, You know that our brethren in Nigeria are being slaughtered in ever-growing numbers, that violence against them is growing day by day. Lord, You know even more than we about Your children in Pakistan, India, North Korea, China, Russia, and in nearly every country in the Middle East who are being tortured and killed for Your name. Lord, You know that Your people are being hunted down and slaughtered in the millions worldwide. In Europe, America, Canada and in other countries, the violence and hatred of us who wear Your name is growing stronger and more violent by the day. Lord, we know and accept the truth that we will be hated for Your namesake. You warned us that we would be hated as You were and are hated by those who love their sin and this evil, fallen world.

Lord Jesus, we have believed in You alone for salvation. We have placed our total faith in you and have chosen to follow You because You have loved us. You died to redeem us. You are our Savior; we love You. We know that there is salvation in NO OTHER NAME than in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God alone. Lord, in You ALONE is our eternal salvation.

Precious Lord, YOU died in our place that we in our fallen, sin-cursed, hopeless state might be redeemed to You; reconciled to You; justified; sanctified; and one day soon, glorified by You. You are our Savior, our Redeemer, our Lord and the God who loved us so much that You gave Yourself to pay in full the penalty of our sins that separate us from You.

Lord, we do not have to fear those who hate us for Your namesake, but rather we fear You who are able to destroy both body and soul in Hell, and yet whose mercy and compassion is beyond our ability to understand. We fear Your holy justice far more than we may fear those who can only kill our bodies.

Lord Jesus, we know that the time of our deliverance is at hand. We know that You are coming soon, first to rescue and deliver Your Church, and then to pour forth Your fire, fury, and righteous vengeance; to lay waste to the “earth dwellers” who have defiled Your creation, persecuted Your people Israel, and to destroy all who have wantonly rejected Your great grace that has been freely offered to “whosoever will” believe.

Lord, very soon You will roar forth in vengeance against all those who shake their fist in Your face in rebellion, all those who trample underfoot Your blessed sacrifice of grace that would and could have saved them, just as Your grace has saved and redeemed all of us who do believe in You as our Savior; for we too are also vile and guilty sinners, but sinners saved by Your grace which we have believed and accepted by faith in Christ Jesus alone.

Sovereign Father, all You have asked for fallen man to be eternally saved is for us to believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ according to the scriptures. Oh God, we who believe are nothing but sinners saved by the grace and mercy of God the Son alone.

Lord, in the closing chapter of Your Revelation, You told us that even the Holy Spirit Himself longs for You to come and rescue Your bride. Lord Jesus, we, Your bride, long for You to come! Oh Lamb of God, Lion of Judah, we beg for You to COME! Our bodies are tired and tortured. Our minds and emotions are spent and raw, and our redeemed spirits are vexed beyond all measure from having to live in and bear witness to the absolute debauchery and depravity of a world that has cast aside all pretense of civility, morality, and any shred of decency in favor of evil and the loathsome “god of this world” Satan.

Great I AM, outside of the restraint of the Holy Spirit who is operating through Your Church, there is NOTHING but evil and utter wickedness left here. Merciful Father, we don’t belong here. We don’t want to remain here any longer to have to witness the evil that every hour grows stronger and more depraved – vileness which further consumes this sin-cursed world. The evil is too great to bear!

Holy God Righteous and True, we plead for the deliverance of the rapture; not only for our own sakes, but for the physical, emotional, and spiritual deliverance of the children. Oh God, our hearts are ripped apart over the plight of these little ones; and yet as much as our hearts are torn over what is being done to them, Lord, we understand that YOU see EVERYTHING! Lord, You spare us by not showing to us more than we can endure because, in Your mercy, we see only a small portion of the true depth of evil and depravity that is being done to Your little ones. But, Righteous Lord, You see it all, and Your fury is mounting.

Lord God, as much as our anger and compassion is stirred, YOUR holy, righteous, and absolute JUST mercy is almost at its end. Your fearsome wrath is even now on the cusp of thundering forth upon this wicked world like a raging tsunami rushing in upon those who are abusing their bodies and poisoning their little minds with Satanic indoctrination and inundation with the lies of the wicked Prince of the Powers of the Air. These children who are YOUR little ones, Lord, YOU are storing up Your Holy vengeance and wrath on their behalf. Holy God of Glory, we tremble because we know that Your wrath, when it is released, will be every bit as great as Your mercy has been.

We know too that the only thing that has stayed Your hand of vengeance is Your unfathomable LOVE and MERCY that, even now, still holds the door of salvation open in this Age of Grace, because You love the lost so much that You are “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” Father, Your mercy is beyond our finite minds to understand or grasp; and yet as great as Your mercy is, so too will be the depth and breadth of Your wrath, vengeance, and holy justice.

Oh Lord, we plead with You that the deliverance of Your Church and of our little ones might be SOON. Oh great and mighty God, Savior of ALL who choose willingly to believe, please attend to the cries of Your bride! Righteous Father, incline Your ear to us and, in Your mercy, send Your Son, our Lord for us NOW, oh God of our salvation! Deliver us, oh mighty God of Glory! Come for us without delay, oh Alpha and Omega! Oh Ancient of Days, deliver us now, oh Lord of Sabaoth! Lord Jesus, Your bride pleads with You to arise from Your place at the right hand of the Father; we cry out to You to let THIS be the day that You arise, step forth into the atmosphere above the earth, and cry aloud for us to “Come up hither”!

Oh Father God, oh King of Kings, have mercy upon us!

In the name of Jesus our risen Savior, we plead our cause before You, oh great Father of Mercy!

AMEN AND AMEN

“And the Spirit and the bride say, COME… Even so COME Lord Jesus!”