by Gerlinda

Isaiah 61 1 "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;"

This is the scripture that Yahshua read in the Synagog but didn't finish reading the whole of it and then sat down. Why was that?

He had come to fulfill this portion and will fulfill the last portion at His Second Coming but notice something here. He says He will open the prisons to them that are bound. So, who was it that were bound and released when Our Lord died and descended into the Hell? That place had two sides to it at that time with a great Gulf between. Wasn't it those that were in Abraham's Bosom who were waiting for their release once Jesus Christ defeated DEATH and led them free when He arose from the Grave? He did this 5500 years after the promise was given to Adam & Eve.

Luke 16:24 [KJV] "And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame."

Abraham and the OT Saints were on the other side of a great gulf that divided the two sides. Since the day that Christ led the Captive Saints free, there is no longer any Believer in Christ that goes into this captivity. Only the Unrighteous go to the side where there are flames. That seems to be the case according to scripture. I also believe that the woman who is seen in the Heavens with chain around her as a Captive was a picture of these OT Saints.

There is only one more woman that is left in the Heavens for the future and it is the Woman adorning herself for her Husband. This is the Ecclesia made up of Israel and Gentile Believers. They are One in Christ, One Body.

There is proof that many of those that had died were seen alive when Jesus Christ arose from the Dead, isn't there? For instance. Matthew 27:52 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)

"Tombs were opened, and many bodies of the Saints who were sleeping arose." So, while those who had died were sleeping, prior to the defeat of Death at Christ's paying the Redemption Price, those on the other side were not sleeping. It seemed that they did not have Spirits that returned to the Father upon death but went to their place of torture until the time of Judgment. There is no peace for them. They have only the release from that place for The Great White Throne Judgment coming. Then they will get their sentence. Some will spent time in Outer Darkness, others will be consumed by the Fires of Hell, which are compared to the burning dumps that eventually burn everything up. It is not an Everlasting Fire for the individual but a fire that burns until the last one that needs to be totally burned up is finished.

So, we know that since His overcoming DEATH, all Believer's Spirits return to their Father but an unrighteous one wouldn't have access to the Father because of the choice he/she has made. In fact, Jesus often referred to them of their father Satan.

So, for the Catholic Church to tell their people that paying money for masses on behalf of their loved ones will release them from this place called Purgatory is not true but a means of generating money. I believe this policy of money being paid for masses was begun when St. Peter's was being constructed. It has generated lots of money and is an on-going racket.

Looking back at the Isaiah scripture, do we see how clearly it was prophesied what Jesus Christ would do long before He ever did it? That was the Resurrection of the First Fruit. Those are the First Fruit of the 144,000 that is spoken about in the Bible. That is an event already done and not one for a future time. There is not going to be another First Fruit Event.

What comes next is the Wheat Harvest, which happens at the time when the Tares are separated and taken by the Angels to burn or also called The Grapes of Wrath when God's Wrath comes upon the world.

There-fore I believe we are removed before the Wrath of God and not at the End of Great Tribulation as many who have removed themselves from a pre-tribulation Rapture and gone to the Post Tribulation Rapture are believing.

The fact of the matter is that there is the Gathering of the Elect from the Four Corners of the Earth and then the Wrath of God being poured out. It is not a long period of Wrath but a matter of, perhaps as the Hebrew Teen-ager said, a couple of months. That is something we can not be dogmatic at this point; because we just do not know.

What we do know is that there is no-pre Tribulation Rapture and more and more have come to see this and abandoned the teaching all together. Time passing always seems to clear up what is truth and what is fable. So, I truly hope that those who think we are finding fault with those that predict a Rapture soon, can come to understand that to warn against believing such rubbish is an act of Love. It is the Rapture Lie that we speak against not the person that believes it. But, and I say this very strongly, to continue to try to find a Rapture Date and being wrong is akin to being a False Prophet. It is Written very clearly in the book of Deuteronomy.

Gerlinda

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