Hello everyone. Again, we want to welcome you to our show today, featuring another insightful study
in the Bible Prophecy Masterclass, Part 3. As was mentioned in our last show, these will be
random studies taken from the Book of the Revelation, in so far as, although the presentation
is divided up into a sequential series of episodes, we will conduct the lessons in the
upcoming podcasts by arbitrarily selecting themes in no set order, except as it relates to theme.
Thus, on this fifth show, episode number 18 in the series, we will continue with Chapter 7 of the
Book of the Revelation covering God's plan for reaping a second bountiful harvest of precious
souls in the days leading up to the Battle of Armageddon and the physical return of Jesus
Christ by looking at the character and the qualifications, and, the mission of the Tribulation
Evangelists. The text which is the basis for this study is Judgment Day, Volume 3, Armageddon,
Acts of God vs. Gods of Earth, written by Mr. Alvin Mitchell. I, Liam, will be your affable
narrator and host. For a more systematic approach to the study of the Revelation,
and, if you would like to contribute to this ministry aimed at preparing saints to warn the
lost, may we suggest that you plan to purchase a copy of the text on Amazon.com, when it becomes
available. Please join me in a word of prayer and praise to God the Almighty for granting us this
opportunity to delve into His Word, and for giving us these awe-inspiring warnings and powerful
insights into His awesome plans for the future of mankind and of the world as we know it.
Let us pray also for blessing upon the study and upon all who make time to join in and to listen.
Their Character, Their Ministry. Verse 4a These are they which were not defiled with women,
for they are virgins. Verse 5 And in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault
before the throne of God. The status of the 144,000 is such that they are first and foremost
Jewish carryovers from the close of the pre-tribulation period, as we have seen.
As such, they will be redeemed from among men.
God's focus on their sexual purity and the evident need for speed, strength, endurance,
and agility, time being of the essence in this literal race against the proverbial clock,
suggests all the more that these will in all likelihood be Jewish men of a relatively young age.
God's appraisal of them is such that they have kept themselves sexually pure and undefiled,
in any way. They are men of character and honor, trustworthy and therefore, without fault in the
eyes of God. Given this truth, being in a world such as it will be during those days, then,
there has to be a reason. Why? How?
Whereas they may be celibate, thus, not encumbered by concerns of family, they will not be Christians,
initially, that they will be like, firstfruits to God and to the Lamb, redeemed from among men,
are phrases that speak well to their residency in unbelief, relative to the gospel message,
at least, up to and beyond the snatch. Generally speaking, in God's estimation,
they will have been every bit as lost as will be any other unbeliever in the left-behind world that
surrounds them. So, what will keep them thus so close to the straight and narrow? Where will they
get this moral compass, in light of the fact that all other Jews around them will be equally as lost,
and that, with considerably less to commend them to God? Without a doubt, as was the case with John
the Baptist and his parents, Cornelius, the Ethiopian eunuch, Lydia the businesswoman and
Apollos the Jew, among many others, before and after Golgotha, these men will have done all that
they can to serve God faithfully with such light and knowledge as they will have, as alluded to
earlier. They will, therefore, have apparently been devout, devoted Jews, seeking to please and
serve God according to all that the law demands, only to appear here due to having been left behind
at the rapture, owing to a lack of faith in the New Testament gospel. All the while, they would
for this reason have no less been lost. The churches will have been of no help to them.
Having followed them from on high, having observed and studied their ways, God will have to dispatch
his angel to alert them of the error of their ways. They will respond in faith, coming full circle,
as it were, embracing and being eager to serve him whom once they and their people had flatly
rejected. That is, with eyes wide open, hearts fully embracing the true gospel in light of all
that they will have seen and experienced, up to the point of their conversion, they will then
minister and serve the Lord God the Almighty against the grain of all that they will have
heretofore been taught. Moreover, regarding their status as God's first fruits, of all who will be
saved after the period of the seal judgments, this 144,000 Jews will be the first of the perhaps
billions to come to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the toughest, most dangerous of
times, neither man in general nor man of faith will ever have known the likes. Their Mission
Verse 4 Be these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes.
These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Thus, having been successfully preserved, recruited, thoroughly enlightened and generously
endowed, with eyes wide open, their mission is such that they follow him wherever he goes.
That is, these 144,000 Jews, having been redeemed from among the ranks of unbelieving men and women
a kind of offering of first fruits of Jewish believers rescued from the tribulation period,
they themselves will now do the work of the man from Galilee, as when he walked the earth,
following in his footsteps, hastily, speedily boldly evangelizing and preaching the gospel in
his name, so as to bring in a fat harvest of souls just before his return at Armageddon, albeit,
at great peril too. Themselves and those whom they lead to salvation, all will lose their lives,
because of their faith, none will live to see the actual, physical return of their Lord.
They will have to do this while facing the constant menace and life-endangering threat
of a hostile world that will not submit to a God it will then know is quite real, a wicked world
spurred and led by the crown rider, in one way or the other, until the beast usurps power,
trumpeting his agenda, pushing his mark and promoting himself as, God, the Almighty able
to stop and to right all the wrongs that will have been incurred thus far, owing to the acts
and exhibitions of wrath administered by him who is indeed, God. Furthermore, it is by the feet
and voices of these men and the angel to follow that the gospel in its purest form will be carried
into all the world, preached to every man, woman and child, not by T.B.N. or Daystar,
or the Pentecostals, Baptists, and other lackadaisical, lackluster churches and their
denominations. Duration of the Ministry
5. The actual work of the mission of the Jews' evangelism will have to begin, most probably,
well in advance of the reign of the dangerous wild animal, a.k.a., the beast, or, Antichrist.
Conceivably, it could, and most probably will, start soon after the seal judgments and the chaos
of World War III.C.Ch.7. A most compelling thought, given that the hearts of the
Savable among the hardest to reach will doubtless be tremendously touched and softened by the
carnage and devastation they will have come through and witnessed, first-hand, up close and
personal, all of that will pale, of course, in light of the hell they will see first-hand,
as God turns up the heat, at the same time channeling the world through it, beginning in
Chapter 8. This, coupled with all that will follow, leading to the killing of the two witnesses,
will without doubt leave them ripe and ready for the saving work of the Jewish evangelists.
Moreover, when the beast arrives and assumes the reigns of the world, the pace to the end will
quicken, as it were, to quadruple time. A lot will have to happen just to get from the resurrection
of the Italian prince, Daniel 7 and 9, Revelation 11.7, 17.8, 3.5 years before Armageddon, to the
implementation of his mark as the beast, at which point the slaughter of all Christians will begin,
probably at least 1 to 1.5 years into his rule, they will not accept the mark, nor will they
worship either him or Satan, in which case they will not be able to buy critically scarce food,
or conduct any other kind of commercial transactions. At this juncture, the evangelistic
aspect of the ministry of the 144,000 will be officially ended, whereas their work will
doubtless continue beyond the mark until all are dead, as one presumes their journey will end in
death, given that it is said of them that, they follow the Lamb, wherever he goes, they will
themselves likely not die with their converts. When the beast takes Jerusalem and the Temple,
and the civilian Jews are airlifted to a safe haven somewhere in the desert, any opportunity
to evacuate into the wilderness with their fellow Jewish evacuees will be missed, 12, 13-17,
most understandable, given that these Jewish evangelists being followers of Christ and their
countrymen and adherents to traditional Judaism will actually operate theologically and spiritually
on two different wavelengths. They will round out their mission by returning to Jerusalem to
assist in its defense against the beast, before they are killed, assuming that in all likelihood
they will be killed. All in all, in the end, whether they live or die, this will simply not
allow for enough time to harvest the hundreds of millions to potentially one billion or so souls
likely to first be saved throughout the early days of the prince, only to be killed by his
newly minted alter ego and the beast. Either event, i.e., the harvest by the 144,000 and
the slaughter by the beast, will take considerable time. Starting their ministry after World War III
will not only allow ample time for the 144,000 to work, it will also provide a measure of safety
and cover under which to perform, compliments first to God's imposition of the International
Moratorium on War Among the Nations, the Acts of God and the Trumpet judgments, including the locusts,
and the actions of the two witnesses, all combining to serve as constant reminders of
the reality of the God the world refuses to serve, and, the need therefore to keep their unsaved
heads down, more than to hunt and chase down people they do not like. Sidebar
The killing spree that wipes out the Christians will be followed immediately by the outpouring
of the bold judgments that expose the beast as the hapless fraud he will be, who even with the arm
of the most powerful of all created beings at his back, is yet no match, by a long shot,
for the true and living God. No clue is given as to the amount of time these judgments will
be allotted, we will assume six months, minimum. Next comes the March of the Kings of the East.
It could take six months to a year to assemble so large a force at the Euphrates,
before crossing another 800 plus miles into Israel, 9 colon 14 dash 17.
World War IV to follow may not actually take long to decide in favor of the dangerous wild
animal and his confederacy. On the other hand, it could rage for several weeks or months,
right up to the moment before Christ appears a more probable scenario, given that the beast
will be out of the city of Jerusalem, which he will control, allowing the Messiah to come
in and plant himself between the beast and the city, on the Mount of Olives, Per Zechariah 14.
This will set the stage for phase 2 of the Battle of Armageddon.
Phase 1 between the beast and the Kings of the Orient will take a substantial amount of time,
as it will occasion the death of one third of the Earth's population, then living.
Angels in Ministry 14 colon 6 dash 7. Verse 6, And I saw another angel fly in
the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. Verse 7, saying with a loud voice,
Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come, and worship him that made
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. As an apparent supplement to the work
of the 144,000, God will dispatch an angel from heaven having the everlasting gospel.
It is this gospel message that will then be proclaimed to all living on earth during those
terrible days, in every nation, in every dialect. The angelic proclamation will be delivered with a
loud voice, Fear God, and acknowledge his reality and presence, because the hour of his judgment has
arrived, worship him who is the maker of heaven and the earth, the sea and the fountains of water.
Without question, this language, coupled with the trumpet judgments, the two witnesses and the
inability of the nations to express their rage or vent their frustrations on each other, the God
imposed war moratorium still being in force, will serve as a constant reminder that keeps those
recently saved from within the ranks of the hardest of unbelievers from lapsing and or being
drawn back into lives of complacency. Unrepentant unbelievers will not be able to sway them.
The ministry and deception of the many false prophets, preachers and teachers, as well as the
false Christs, will fall on deaf ears. Knowing that the worst is not over, is an assurance that
will thereby keep them alert, ever on their toes. Interestingly, maybe even understandably,
this angel will not follow the ritual and planning strategies of the likes of Billy Graham, Louis
Paolo, or Mario Cirillo. He will make no effort to get all the churches together, in agreement to
support and pray about this thing. The churches, there will be many, left behind, will be, snubbed,
as well, altogether left out of the evangelistic process. His ministry will not be limited to the
big urban areas where there are lots of deep-pocketed white people, but will literally
span the globe, where people great and small, of every nationality and skin tone, will hear the
everlasting gospel. Contrary to the teaching of TBN and Daystar, it will be during these
troublesome times that the gospel message will finally reach the ends of the earth,
carried by the 144k and the angelic preacher, not by evangelical fundamentalists, or Catholics,
unpolluted by sectarian, denominational and Pentecostal-slash-holiness dogma and theological
nonsense, and other religious hogwash. And, with that, ladies and gentlemen, here is where
we will end this edition of the podcast in the Bible Prophecy Master Class. We sincerely hope
that you have been blessed by this and all of the lessons in this series of sessions.
Plan to join us next time for the continuation of our look at End Times Evangelism as it will be
conducted during the awful days of the Apocalypse. Until our next meeting, may the Good Lord bless you all.