Great post Gerlinda!!

What a blessing to read!! Thank you for sharing this. Sure sounds like the Bride is going to go through the Tribulation, but will be protected through it. I really liked this statement:

"The Lord impressed upon me that soon the work that He has done in preparing His bride will begin to bear fruit on an entirely different level as the Bride begins to carry out the role for which they were prepared for during this season of the end times.

Using The Harvest Allegory, the Bride represents the Barley harvest, which is a sacrificial crop. As such, the Bride is a sacrificial group of people who will be called upon to lay down their lives, in one form or another, in the service of their Lord Y'shua as He calls upon them to play a part in His plan for the restoration of all things."

The Barley harvest is the sealing of the 144,000 who will make up Zion, the New Jerusalem. You may not agree with me on this, or see it this way, but this article sure spoke to me, and reminded me of so many of the studies I have been posting about this. It is beautiful that so many waiting for a rapture are not wrong...yet, they will not be going to heaven, but going into the Lord's service.

Whatever you see here, I thank you for presenting it, as it encouraged and blessed me personally.

God Bless you dear lady!

YSIC
Patti C.

Patti,

This article also spoke to me in ways I had not considered before. So many have believed in a Rapture that will remove the Bride....I have.....although I changed my mind about the pre-tribulation Rapture to that of the pre-Wrath.

Now, what is very noticeable here is the fact that there is an HOUR of TESTING. This hour is not 3 1/2 years long. That length of time has been given to how long the Anti-Christ is given to have his time as leader of an End Time Empire.

Apparently, as the signs in the Heavens are very apparent with Ison surviving it's swing around the Sun yet pieces of it have broken off, which have nowhere to go but down to earth. How large are these? Is One piece so large as to be Wormwood? What comes down is made up of material that is full of chemicals that will poison the waters thus you get the rest of the prophecy of the fish dying, 1/3 of shipping is done. You know...all of that spoken about.

Your contribution to what Wormwood means other than "bitter" and that it points to destruction as Charles Holler Sr. has told in his video, show us that we are now in those days. None of this is just going to go away but continue it's path to what I've had on my mind for a long time and that is that we are in the Days of The Destroyer, which is the very thing that came through during the Days of Noah. It destroyed the known earth while Noah & family were kept safe. I have no worry about whether I and the rest of us who have been born-again will be kept safe from it but I do have disagreements as to how near this all is going to take place. I believe it is very near.

Concerning the 144,000 out of the 12 tribes of Israel; I have even come to the belief that these are spread all over the world and since Israel (physical Israel who became believers) did mix with the gentiles could well be those that will be used of Our God during these days ahead.

So, you see, I am not so set in my way that I cannot look at all of the evidence and consider I was a bit myopic.

I have waited this long today to even type up anything because I have spend hours contemplating the Resurrection of the Dead and then they who are alive are taken to meet the Lord in the Air. We've been taught that these are only those that died in Christ, right? And the others, Saints of the OT who died in faith rather than grace have to wait until the very end, meaning at the end after Jesus Christ returns to stand upon the Mount where He left. That just cannot be. There is One Resurrection and when that takes place, those alive at the time will be changed to meet the Lord in the air. That is the Rapture. What is so Blessed of this all is that there is a generation that will be alive that will be changed in the twinkling of an eye but little do these same people waiting for this, consider what the Bride may go through until that time, just prior to the Hour of God's Wrath.

I still believe there is a physical Land of Israel to which The Lord Jesus Christ must return because scripture tells us this. And yes, most of Israel is in apostasy. Why else is it that only 1/3 of them survive while the other 2/3 are killed? And that makes one ask, "Why are these 1/3 saved?" It must be in answer to them being the very ones who have had their blinders removed and now can see and call upon The Name of the Lord just as each and everyone of us has done. God has not given upon them no more than He gave up on us. It is His Call, His Hour of Wrath.

Yes, it has been an awakening for me and I am grateful that God allowed me to have my own eyes opened so that I may see a more complete picture; one which makes a whole lot more sense in light of the whole of God's Word.

Thank You Patti, Charles, Arlene, Bruce, John and last but not least Steven.

gerlinda

AMEN! Gerlinda!

What you said was beautifully stated and is a nice addition to all the we have been conveying. So, thank YOU for that!

I would like to let you know, that I too believe that Jesus will return to Israel, and that all those that turn to him will be saved. Natural Israel must hold a special place in His heart, and He weeps over them not turning to Him before such tribulation.

It reminds me of Jesus saying "the last shall be first and the first shall be last"...to me it means that those He brought the Gospel to first, the Jewish people, who rejected Him, will be last. All those, who received the Gospel after that and did receive Him (the Last) will be first to be saved and protected in the Tribulation. I see the natural Israelites, whose blinders are removed, to be the Grape Harvest...saved at the Lord's Second Coming.

Again, your article was a blessing, and your thank-you even more so.

May HIS love and light surround you!

YSIC

Patti C.