“The night is far spent, the day [Day of the Lord] is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light” (Romans 13:12). All scripture KJV.

There is not much time left. We who have been followers of our Lord Jesus Christ and watchers of Bible prophecy know that we are in the very final seconds before the Church Age ends. With everything in us, many of us who are part of God’s Remnant Church all across this world have been watching, praying, pleading and warning with greater and greater passion, urgency, and intensity “as we see the day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25).

There is not anything left to say that hasn’t already been said time and time again. Indeed, our warnings have been shouted from the rooftops, as it were, with greater and greater urgency. The only thing left to say is still the most important thing that can ever be said, and that is the only vital message that has ever been given to fallen man. That message is that mankind is a hopeless and helpless sinner who needs a perfect and righteous Savior.

You see, it is not any particular sin or another that leads one to Hell. There is only one sin that leads a soul to eternal damnation in an eternal Hell, eternally separated from God, and that sin is the sin of rejecting Jesus Christ and His free pardon.

Jesus is the only One who paid in full the infinite penalty for mankind’s sin debt. The only One who could save lost and fallen man, who was “condemned already” and under the “curse of sin,” was God the Son who wrapped Himself in human flesh to become the one and only God/Man, being both fully God and fully man.

Only He was qualified, able, and willing to “become sin” by bearing within Himself the sins of the entire world so that all – anyone who is willing to believe upon Him alone – all who are willing to place their faith and trust in His perfect life, His death on the cross in our place, His burial, and in His bodily resurrection on the third day may, upon their belief, have the righteousness of Christ imputed, transferred, upon them. That all who believe according to the scriptures may be instantly justified, declared “not guilty” just as if they had never sinned, eternally sealed and secured “in Christ” by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory” (Ephesians 1:13-14).

This is the only message that matters, that has ever mattered, and the only message that ever will matter. This message is more important now than ever before because time is running out. The Age of Grace is rapidly coming to an end, and the dreadful, terrible Day of the Lord’s wrath and vengeance is almost upon this God-hating world. We are right there.

There are only two kinds of sinners:

(1) We who are wretched sinners saved by the grace of the Almighty, all-loving, all-merciful God the Father through God the Son, Jesus.

(2) Then there are the wretched lost, still unbelieving sinners who have thus far rejected – who continue to reject the only means of salvation because they refuse to place their faith and trust in Jesus Christ alone. Each of us is in one or the other of those two categories. One is either a sinner saved by grace, or one is a sinner, lost unredeemed, and headed straight for an eternal Hell because he or she refuses to believe the gospel of salvation according to the scriptures.

In which category are you?

Time is almost up. Judgment is coming. In fact, the foreshocks of the coming Tribulation have already begun. Any moment now, the believing Remnant Church, God’s true church, the bride of Christ, will be snatched away from this earth to meet our Lord in the air. This event will mark the end of the Church Age. It will usher in the time of the end – the final seven years of mankind’s history. That countdown will commence with the confirmation of a covenant between an as yet unrevealed global leader and Israel.

Once the Church is gone, nothing will ever be the same again. This is the message that we believers have been pleading with weeping hearts for you to hear and believe.

Please do not wait any longer. The Bible tells us that “today is the day of salvation.”

“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, And in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation)” (2 Corinthians 6:2).

Oh please, please do not continue to harden your heart or turn a deaf ear, or mock those who truly care about the eternal destiny of your immortal soul!

The great evangelist George Whitefield, minister of the Great Awakening during the 1700s, said this: “You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.”

Dear Reader, I dare not make any presumptions that all who come to this site or read the articles penned here are saved. Only God knows the hearts of those whom He sends to this site. If you are reading this article and you have never called upon the name of Jesus to save you, then let me assure you on the authority of God’s Word that you are not here by accident. If you have found yourself here on this site reading this or any other article published here, it is because the God who “so loved the world” has sent you here and placed these words into your path so that you may hear, perhaps for the first time, or perhaps for the last time, the gospel of salvation.

“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Isaiah 55:10-11).

So as I close, let me do so by once more giving to you as plainly and as plaintively as I know how, the gospel. This is what you must believe to be saved. This is what you must believe in order to change your eternal destiny from Hell to Heaven. First, you must understand and accept the truth that you are a sinner. You’re not a sinner because you commit sins; you commit sins because you are a sinner. It is what you are inherently. The Bible says that to be saved, one must:

(1) Understand and acknowledge that you are a sinner hopelessly and helplessly lost, cut asunder from God by the “curse” of sin under which all mankind is conceived, and that as such, you are condemned to Hell because of it.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Romans 3:10-12).

Here is the bad news that must be accepted and acknowledged.

“For the wages [the eternal penalty] of sin is death [spiritual death, eternally separated from God in Hell]; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

(2) Understand and acknowledge that you cannot do, say, or ever become able to save yourself. You cannot save yourself because even the very best you can do will always “fall short” of the glory of God.

“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away” (Isaiah 64:6).

“For by grace [alone] are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works [one’s own merits or efforts], lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).

(3) Salvation comes only through Jesus Christ, according to the scriptures.

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

(4) This is what you must believe to be saved:

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

(5) Finally, call upon the Lord.

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13).

This is the gospel of eternal salvation, which Jesus fully paid for and which He freely offers as a gift to “whosoever will” believe in Him.

“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21).

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God” (John 3:16-21).

With all my heart, I implore you, if you have not already done so, come to the cross. It was there that God the Son, in human form, stretched out His hands, nailed to a cross of His own free will and volition. And because He loved us so, He hung on a cross suspended between heaven and earth and took upon Himself the sins of the whole world, thereby offering a free pardon of sin to all who are willing to believe [place their faith and trust in] and call upon Him for salvation. Please, please do not delay. Come to the Savior now before it is eternally too late.

“Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father” (John 10:17-18).

I plead with you, come to salvation now. Time is almost up, and this is all that matters.

alice.joan.childs@gmail.com

 

Who Will Be Left Behind?

In my last letter, I warned you to be aware of any variation on “the lie” that will be put forth to try to explain away the disappearances of what could conceivably be upwards of one billion people worldwide. This includes pre- and post-born babies, all young children, and all those who are mentally incompetent and unable to comprehend their sin guilt, thus their need of a Savior.

“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

All of us are guilty sinners; however, the people groups who are not held accountable for their sin because of their inability to understand their sin guilt are covered by God’s grace, since one must be able to understand one’s guilt before a holy God and one’s need of a Savior. Only God knows the age of accountability, depending on each individual’s understanding. And only He knows those who, for whatever reason, do not have the mental capacity to understand and appreciate the sinful guilt under which we are all born and which infects us all since Adam’s rebellion.

Only God knows the exact number of those who will have been taken in the rapture, but what you must know is this: all of the taken ones were either among the first group I mentioned — guilty sinners but safe because of their inability to be accountable, or those who are guilty sinners but saved (made justified before God) because they believed in Christ alone for salvation according to the scriptures.

Those who are a part of the second group consist of all adults (young and old) and all older children who came to an understanding of sin and salvation – all who had at some prior time placed their belief, their faith and trust in the sinless life, crucified and atoning death, and bodily resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Each and every older child and adult taken via the rapture were genuine believers in Christ, and as such, were a part of His true Church.

There will be many left behind who may have claimed to be part of this or that church or religion, and there will be many so-called “pastors” or other “religious leaders” who will be among the “left-behind ones,” but you must know this: all who were left behind, regardless of who they are, were never genuine believers in the first place; for had they been, then they too would have been taken in the rapture when Jesus called to Heaven His Church (both the living believers and those who had died “in Christ”).

You have now been made fully aware of these things:

(1) WHO has been taken: the safe and the saved – all those whom the Bible describes as being “in Christ” (both the living and the dead who died “in Christ”).

(2) WHAT has happened: the resurrection of all the “dead in Christ” – believers who have died from Jesus’ resurrection up through the day of the rapture, along with all living believers alive and instantaneously changed from mortal to immortal at the instant the rapture occurred.

(3) WHERE THE TAKEN ONES ARE NOW: in Heaven in the Father’s House with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now that you understand the truth of who was taken and the why regarding those of you who were not taken, let me move on to explain to you exactly what you need to know regarding that which will now begin to take place for those of you left here on Earth.

Again, I repeat, it is no longer your physical life that matters. You will almost certainly not live through these last seven years. That is the plain, unvarnished truth. You need to come to terms with this and accept it. All that matters now is where your immortal soul will spend eternity after the death of your physical body.

These last seven years will be divided into two halves of 3 ½ years each. The first 3 ½ years will be horrific. The last 3 ½ years will be unprecedented and will make the first half pale in comparison. The entirety of this seven-year time period is usually referred to as “The Tribulation”; however, the latter half was designated by Jesus Himself as being “GREAT tribulation.” In fact, Jesus stated that if He personally did not return to intervene, then no flesh (no living thing) would be left alive. Very sobering words.

For now, let’s look at the first 3 ½ years of what you, who have been left behind, are going to have to endure according to God’s Word.

Keep this truth front and center in your mind and heart, though: Jesus loves you. He shed His blood for you just as He did for all sinners. He wants you to be with Him for all eternity. Even in the midst of His terrible judgment coming upon this wicked world, God is continuing to extend His mercy and grace to you – to all who will come to Him by faith – even during this awful time of the Tribulation.

“For God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

Everything that is waiting for believers in our eternal Home is beyond our ability to comprehend in our fallen, sinful state. Those of you who become Tribulation believers will receive your new and glorified bodies at the end of these last seven years. Therefore, upon any Tribulation believer’s death, his/her spirit will go immediately to Heaven to await their new and glorified, immortal bodies.

So, again I tell you, do not fear what will happen to your physical body. It only houses your immortal soul, and God has reserved for you a brand new body just like the ones we of the Church Age, post-rapture, now have – an immortal body that will never hunger, never grow old, never tire, and which can never be hurt again.

Those of you who become believers during these last seven years are called Tribulation saints. You are the “saints” referred to in chapters 6-19 of Revelation. If you remain faithful “even unto death,” all of Heaven awaits you once your soul leaves your body. Be encouraged and remain faithful to Jesus no matter what.

What is coming upon Earth is this: There will arise from somewhere within the confines of what was once the Old Roman Empire, a man of unusual charisma, superb military cunning, and unequaled, political brilliance. This man will come via peaceful means (or what will appear to be peaceful means). Most likely, this man will appear on the scene after two events that I will mention only in passing here but will detail in a later chronicle. These two precursor events to this man’s appearance on the global scene will be:

(1) the complete, overnight destruction of the city of Damascus (Isaiah 17).

(2) the invasion of Israel by a coalition of nations led by Russia (named Magog in the Bible), Iran (called Persia in the Bible), and Turkey (called Togarmah in the Bible) along with a few other countries such as Libya (Put) and Sudan.

You can read about this invasion in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel, chapters 38-39. This invasion will most likely not be WWIII but will eventually trigger what will become WWIII. The main aftermath of this Russian-led invasion will be the utter destruction of the Russian-led coalition and the rise to power of this new charismatic world leader about whom I will now tell you.

As a result of the destruction of this Russo/Iranian/Turkish-led invasion of Israel (which God Himself will destroy on the mountains of Israel), this new global leader will “confirm a covenant with many” between Israel and those surrounding her. (See the Old Testament book of Daniel in chapter 9, verse 27.)

Watch out for this man and for this event. I cannot give you the name of this man because none of us on this side of the rapture know who he will be. You, however, will be able to identify him because it will be he who will “confirm” a covenant between Israel and many others. His brokered arrangement will allow Israel to rebuild her Temple on its ancient site. The man who accomplishes these things will be the Antichrist.

His negotiating skills will be astounding and his rhetoric powerful (reminiscent of the oratorical skills of Adolph Hitler, but much more powerful and persuasive). He will use craft and deception to attain his goals. This man will accomplish what no other global leader will have ever been able to do; he will bring what appears to be “peace” to the seething cauldron that is the Middle East through this “Peace Initiative.”

He “confirms” this “covenant” with “many” for seven years (what the Old Testament book of Daniel chapter 9 calls a “week” of years, i.e., seven years). It is the confirmation of this covenant (not the rapture) that will be the event that begins the final seven-year countdown. All events count down from this one event.

Either simultaneously or not long afterward, war will erupt. This war will be a global conflict, and its aftermath will be horrendous. Keep your eyes on Israel, for she is the key to everything that will happen.

The conflicts recorded in Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 38 will take place very soon, possibly before the rapture occurs, but most probably just after or simultaneously with the rapture. But this I cannot say with certainty.

The overarching events taking place during this first half of the last seven years are these:

(1) Damascus will be utterly destroyed (Isaiah 17).

(2) A Russian/Iranian/Turkish-led coalition will invade the land of Israel on the Golan Heights (Ezekiel 38-39).

(3) Somewhere around this time, either just before, during, or simultaneously with the destruction of Damascus, Syria and/or the Russian led-invasion of Israel, the rapture will occur (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Thessalonians 2: 1-17; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54; Revelation 3:10 & 4:1).

(4) A charismatic leader will arise and will confirm a covenant with Israel. This covenant confirmation will begin the countdown to the last seven years.

(5) A global war will begin, WWIII if you want to call it that. It will be massive in scale and devastating in its consequences.

(6) In the wake of this global war, famine on a global scale will quickly ensue. No country will be spared.

(7) The death toll from this war and its aftermath will be staggering. Diseases and pestilences will be especially overwhelming: pathogens such as typhus, cholera, along with all manner of both known and new and unknown diseases will run rampant and unchecked. They will be pandemic (global instead of regional) in scope and severity.

(8) On the heels of this will be attacks by both wild and domesticated animals who, as a result of the severity of this war and its aftermath, will also be starving. All manner of animals, both wild and domesticated, will have lost all fear of man and will attack, both alone and in packs.

(9) In addition to all of this, there will be unprecedentedly strong and frequent earthquakes, much stronger than any heretofore experienced. These quakes will occur all over the earth, along with increasing volcanic activity and ensuing tsunamis spawned from them, as the very earth itself is rocked on its foundations with the ferocity of the armed conflicts that most likely will involve nuclear events.

(10) Murder and unrestrained violence will become the norm, even as this coldness of heart is beginning now. Unprecedented violence and brutality will be loosed on a global scale never known before. Very little law and order will be left intact anywhere in the world. Love and natural affection among people, including family members, will continue to erode to the point of non-existence.

(11) Those who do become believers during this time will be hated, hunted, and executed en masse because of their faith. The overwhelming majority of people left behind will be God-haters, who hate and despise all those who follow Christ. Murder and violence will be exponentially greater than it is right now as I write this pre-rapture.

Just how great will the death toll be from war, famine, pandemic diseases, murder, animal attacks, earthquakes, and a world gone mad?

The world’s population, as I write this pre-rapture, stands at 7.4 billion people (according to the World Population Clock as calculated in August 2016). Estimating conservatively that roughly one billion or so worldwide leave in the rapture, this will leave around six billion people after the Church is gone. One fourth of those will die during the first half of the Tribulation. That equals 1-1½ billion people. (Read chapter 6 of Revelation up through the 5th “seal judgment,” and on to the 2nd of the three “woes.” These passages chronicle the 1st half of the Tribulation.)

This number is merely a drop in the bucket compared to those who will die during the last 3 ½ years.

Please, do not make the grave mistake of thinking that you will be safe because you live in America, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or any one of the more modern or “first world” countries. Every single nation on every single continent will be affected by these trans-global catastrophes. It may very well be that America, which was once a God-fearing and blessed nation, will suffer the most loss of life as a judgment for the vast amounts of every conceivable sin that this nation has embraced and eagerly committed in these last days in the sight of Almighty God.

Do not think for one second that God will not avenge the blood of the 60 million babies who have been slaughtered within the wombs of their mothers; or the millions of children and mentally handicapped individuals who have been abandoned, neglected, abused, tortured, molested, brainwashed, and thrown aside like garbage; or the myriads of women and children worldwide who have been abducted and sold as sex slaves; or the plethora of sexual perversions including homosexuality, pedophilia, and even bestiality that have been openly embraced flaunted, celebrated, and forced upon society; along with thousands upon thousands of wanton murders, thefts, deceptions, lies, rampant drug abuse, unmitigated narcissism, and the utter and absolute vileness and outright evil that has been flaunted in defiance and contempt in the face of Almighty God and those who belong to Him.

I implore you – come to the only one who can save your immortal soul. Place your complete faith and trust in Jesus Christ alone for your salvation. Accept that you are a justly condemned sinner. Believe that Jesus Christ is God come to Earth in human flesh and that He lived a perfect, sinless life which qualified Him alone to offer His life up in our place to satisfy God’s infinite justice. Believe that Jesus’ death on the cross atoned for/paid in full man’s sin debt, that He was buried, and that He arose bodily from the grave on the third day so that all who are willing to call upon the name of the Lord might be saved (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

Do this before it is eternally too late. Once your last breath is taken and your last heartbeat is stilled, then your eternal destiny is forever set; and if you should die in your sins, you will spend all eternity in a literal place called the Lake of Fire—forever separated from God in eternal torment. Remember, you do not have to go there. The choice is yours to make.

Keep reading. In the next chronicle, I will tell you of the importance that tiny Israel and her people, the Jews, will play and of the most dreadful time that is still to come.