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The purpose of this message is to reveal the consistency of God in the ages. The tribulation period is preceded by a great falling away (2 Thessalonians 2:3 states, Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;) from the truth of God, which age we are presently living in. God’s turning away from Israel to the Gentile church is also preceded by a falling away from the truth of God’s word.

God first established the home as the primary organization to spread his everlasting gospel to a lost and dying world. When that failed to be true to God’s commandments, God destroyed the world with a flood of water, but retained the family, because he knew that was the most stable and most fundamental of all organization. There have always been those faithful to the cause of Christ in the family, but in the main, Godly family values have been and are being rejected.

Shortly after the world-wide flood, God called Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees and used him to establish the Jewish nation. The nation of Israel was to remain true to God’s commandments, taking the everlasting gospel to the entire world. When they developed their own philosophies, and forsook the principles of God’s word, God first allowed the Assyrians to take captive the 10 northern tribes (Israel), then in 606 B.C. God allowed the Babylonians to take Judah and Benjamin into 70 years of captivity, as a warning. Judah did not heed God’s warning, continuing to develop their own religious activity, while retaining outward signs of true religion. When Jesus came, he spoke of the true worship of Jehovah, which was so foreign to the Jews, they could not receive his teachings. Therefore Christ turned from the Jewish nation, causing them to be dispersed through all the world, beginning in 70 A. D. when Titus captured Jerusalem. God did not and has not completely forsaken the Jewish nation, as he will bring them back into the tree, which work was seen to have been begun in 1948 when Israel was recognized as a nation by the United Nations. There were always some in the nation of Israel who were true to Godly principles, but the majority went away from Godly principles, therefore God left Israel and established his kind of church.

During his personal ministry, Jesus Christ organized his kind of church, which purpose was to take the gospel message into all the world. The church has done exactly what the family did, and what Israel did. Most of what Christendom calls a church and true religion has been polluted as the message of God’s eternal truth has been changed into a message of their own making, therefore God will take the church out of the way, and will bring Israel back to the forefront. This will happen during the tribulation period, as this period is nor primarily for the family, or the church, or the world, but for the nation of Israel. There are always going to be some true churches on this earth, until Christ takes them all out, shortly before the tribulation period begins. The church will never disappear as even in eternity, the church will give honor and glory to God.

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Show the creation of God in 6 days, then:

Point # 1 – genealogy of Adam through Noah – Genesis 5.

Point # 2 – genealogy of Noah through Abraham – Genesis 11:10-32.

Point # 3 – 430 years from the time of the promise given to Abraham until the giving of the law to Moses.

Point # 4 – 480 years from the giving of the law to the 4^th year of Solomon’s reign when he began to build the temple of God.

Point # 5 – Solomon reigned about 1,000 years BC, which all secular histories will confirm.

Christ was born into this world when the world was about 4,000 years old, at a time when Israel was looking for a redeemer, yet they rejected the redeemer God sent to them.

The world is presently looking for a redeemer, yet they have rejected the truth of God in his holy Bible, substituting their own wicked thoughts and ideas for the truth, therefore the rapture is coming quickly for true believers, and the great tribulation period is coming quickly upon all unbelievers, especially for the Jewish nation, as God prepares them for his coming in the air when they shall look upon him whom they have pierced, and will believe he is the one they missed.

a. John 19:37 records the first time the Jews looked on their redeemer with unbelief, And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

b. Zechariah 12:10 records that Israel will believe when they see Christ coming in the air, after they have gone through much trial and tribulation and have reached the end of their rope, And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

What is happening today in the world is exactly what happened to the Jewish nation about 2,000 years ago. The world is presently going astray from God’s commandments, forsaking the principles of God’s Word for their own false philosophies, thoughts and ideas.

c. Evolution (which comes from science falsely so called – the wicked dreams of men) has replaced creation (which comes from the Bible).

d. The English Bible (KJV) has recently been replaced by all sorts of Bibles – all of them from a completely different source than the KJV.

e. Men reject God Almighty, but have replaced him with a god of their own imaginations.

1) Before the flood in Noah’s day - Genesis 6:5 - And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

2) Today - Romans 1:21 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

3) Our job – II Corinthians 10:5 - Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Acts 7:38 – This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: Stephen is preaching to the unbelieving Jews about their rejection of Christ. It is amazing that the Jews who came out of Egypt prayed for a redeemer, then rejected the redeemer God sent to them, just as the Jews in the days of Christ (as the Jews before them) had fervently prayed for a redeemer, only to reject the redeemer God sent to them. The Jews in Egypt also rejected Moses and the word of God sent to them by Moses, just as the Jews is the days of Christ rejected him and the word of God sent to them by Jesus Christ. The Jews in Egypt who refused to believe the word of God were killed in the 40 year wilderness wanderings, just as the Jews in the days of Christ who refused to believe the word of God were scattered throughout all the nations of this earth, to suffer persecution at the hand of every nation. God did not completely forsake them, however, even as God did not completely forsake the Jews who came out of Egypt. God allowed the next generation to come into the promised land, and God restored Israel to their land, making them a nation once again in the year 1948. Romans 11:11 states, I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Israel will be returned to their former glory when they see Jesus Christ coming in his glory and realize their fathers rejected their promised redeemer. A nation shall be born in a day as stated in Isaiah 66:8, Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Romans 3:2 - Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Hebrews 5:12 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

1 Peter 4:11 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

The word "oracles" in the Old Testament always speaks of the holy of holies, from which place God spoke to the nation of Israel. One example is 1 Kings 8:6, And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. In the New Testament, the place God speaks to this world is in his churches, not in the world in general – same as in the Old Testament.

I. God removed the keys of the kingdom from Israel, giving them to the church he organized during his personal ministry. God is going to give these keys back to Israel because the church will be taken out at the rapture.

A. Matthew 16:19 – And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

B. Luke 11:52 – Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

C. Mark 12:1-12 – The parable of the vineyard, and the letting of it to another. This parable reflects the transfer of power from Israel to the church.

D. Romans 11:17,19,23,24 – these passages reflect that Christ has cut off Israel, and grafted in His kind of church. II Peter 3:2 – Peter declared that the prophets of the Old Testament and the apostle of the New Testament wrote all the Bible.

E. Hebrews 1:1,2 – God spoke to the Old Testament prophets, who relayed that conversation to the people through the written Word, which is the Old Testament. God hath in these last days spoken to us through His Son, Jesus Christ. An apostle relays through the written Word, what God speaks to them. This is why it is important to understand that the apostles wrote the New Testament.

F. Acts 1:2 – Jesus Christ gave commandments to the apostles during His personal ministry.

G. Ephesians 3:5 – God revealed to His apostles and holy prophets that the church would be organized and would receive the keys of the kingdom of God, and the great commission to go into all the world.