Orig posted at 5Doves.

I hope you will allow me to bare my soul a bit, just so you understand (whether you agree or not) where I’m coming from.

IF Jesus Christ is actually coming back four days from now to gather His church, it’s a big deal.  In fact, it’s HUGE.  I personally believe that those who love the Lord passionately and are singularly eager to do His will; whose lives are characterized by obedience regardless of the cost — those folks will be gathered up as the Bride.  But along with them will be the lukewarm, the indifferent, the rebellious … those who are “Christians” but just barely.  They have enough faith to trust Christ for the remission of their sins, but they don’t have enough love to “obey from the heart that form of doctrine” as a consistent lifestyle.  ALL will be taken to the Bema Seat:  the Judgment Seat of Christ.

There will be no “make-up classes” for the Church Age.  That age will be over.  Now, I don’t know what your life looks like, but I’ll bet that you know some folks who are definitely Christians but if you asked them if they were ready to meet Jesus face-to-face, they would say ‘no.’  They know there is a lot of junk in their lives and if they KNEW they were gonna see Jesus, they would clean up their act.

I mean, I live under a rock, and even I know folks like that.

Now, is it REASONABLE (and you can read Amos 3:7 before you answer this) that the Lord would give a little “heads-up” or “wake-up call” before doing anything as HUGE as coming for His body?

My Final Fulfillment of Pentecost project was not a “me, too!” jump-on-the-bandwagon adventure.  I didn’t decide one day to “become a prophet” or anything like that.  Last year, I saw some things that made me seriously consider the possibility that the rapture could happen at the Feast of Trumpets.  When that day came and went, I decided to abandon as many of my preconceived ideas as possible and simply dig into the scriptures, and try to see what emerged.  In mid-January, I published “Final Fulfillment” on my web site and also noted it on my blog.

THEN … I decided to do a few Google searches to see if I was a lone voice out there in left field, or if there was any sort of confirmation.  As it turned out, there was a lot of confirmation.  These weren’t people selling doomsday books and t-shirts, or otherwise building internet businesses on Bible-and-pessimism.  Rather, they were by-and-large people who just plain loved Jesus and were longing for His return, and believed that He would signal His return … IF we would watch for and strive to understand the signals.  They were in the Word, and they were obediently watching.

MOST of the “church” in America slumbers on.  We have a certifiable demon in the White House and we’re witnessing the collapse of what was once the strongest and free-est country in the history of the planet.  This crisis is much larger than any of us could imagine.  I sincerely believe (and I’m not alone in this one, either) that we will see war on this continent WITHIN TWO MONTHS — that DC and NYC and California will become mere memories, and that the horrified remainder will lay down their lives and plead for “peace …. at ANY price.”

THEN … people will say, “why did nobody warn us?“  And worse, those luke-warm, barely-Christians who are now standing before the Judge Jesus Christ and giving an account of their wasted lives … oh, they will survive … like someone rescued from a burning building.  Will they be cast into the “outer darkness”?  Will they be saved and in heaven, but be “weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth”?  Or will Jesus say, “This ‘bema seat’ thing is just for show.  Everybody gets lavish rewards.  Let’s party!!”  Did Jesus endure Calvary and three hours in torments for that?  Is the Final Judgment just a farce?

I don’t think so.  And for that reason, I am warning anyone who will listen that the signs and sounds of Christ’s return are getting nearer … for some, dangerously near.

I set a date of Pentecost because that’s what I saw.  And as far as I can tell, though the scriptures are hazy at this point, the Lord appointed three main feasts:  Unleavened Bread,  Firstfruits, and Tabernacles.  The first and last are clearly laid out as 8-day events.  Pentecost is the first day of the second feast.  One would expect the three to match, and when there is an incongruity … that is, when you expect something that isn’t there … one properly wonders “why?”  I am not yet sure why the duration of the second feast is not more explicitly described in Leviticus.  But it’s clear from the observation of the feast in Acts 21 that it ran longer than just one day.  Ruth hints at an extended feast, but I am loathe to build any conclusions on mere “hints.”

So myself and a few of my friends are earnestly studying and reviewing the scriptures, trying to weed out any presuppositions we might unconsciously be laying over the facts.  It might seem humorous for someone to announce a date for some event of Biblical proportions to transpire, and then have that day come and go.  But believe me:  I am deadly earnest about this thing.  I know that I am ready … but I don’t know about you or about any of the other folks who read my stuff.  I’m not just picking random dates off the calendar; but I am trying to be the faithful watchman that the Lord has called me to be.  And as I asked on my blog (maybe you saw it), what good is a watchman who won’t warn? The Lord Himself answered that one (Ezekiel 33:6).  So woe to me if I do NOT set a date when I see the Day approaching.  I’d rather be wrong and laughed at (though I’ve had surprisingly little derision) than to have someone’s blood on my hands because I was afraid of being wrong, or being mistaken, or whatever.

There is not a tinge of rebuke in this email.  I believe that were we together instead of geographically separated, that we would be outrageously good friends, that iron would sharpen iron.  And on that sentiment I will close.  Accept this hand-shake over the miles, and here’s my sincere prayer that He will gather us before this current feast ends, and that we will rejoice together before His throne.