Cautions about bible prophecy

Since I was about 10 years old I have studied bible prophecy after my mother took us to the bible bookstore so she could pick up some items for the church (she was a deaconess and was picking up sunday school materials or something like that) and I discovered the bible prophecy section.  I devoured every book on bible prophecy I could find including the newly released books by Hal Lindsay (someone who is an apostate now) including 'The Late Great Planet Earth'.

I could explain in great detail the gog-magog war in Ezekiel (which has not yet happened although will in the near future) and watched as the bible prophecies came to life.  I watched in excitement in 1988 when a best selling book was released '88 reasons why the rapture had to happen in 1988' and the letdown when it did not happen as well as the sadness to hear of the "christian" women in South Korea that had abortions because they did not want to be raptured while pregnant.  Of course after the 1988 rapture date failed, the author came up with a sequel --- '89 reasons the rapture had to happen in 1989'.

It was with excitement that I watched as the Oslo Accords, authored by the possible antichrist (Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan) were held, the Euro became the currency of the EU (which was formerly the EEC - European Economic Community) and watched as people were in a panic over the Y2K computer bug.  Yes - have watched bible prophecy since I was young and continue to do so. 

There are cautions to those who are watching for the rapture,  predicting dates, and watching for rapture dates.  Some people become so preoccupied with watching for a date and follow those who repeatedly make false predictions that they are in danger of being left behind.  Messiah Yeshua is the one we are to watch for and follow - not a rapture date and not a false prophet.  Messiah said we are to continue to watch FOR HIM not for a date and not for a false prophecy some false prophet comes up with using whatever fortune telling device he (or she) has come to rely on.

Yes - we are to KEEP WATCH but we are to be watching for Messiah Yeshua each and every second of every day - not for some rapture date some false prophet has conjured up.  If you are watching for a date or following a false prophet - they have become your "gods" and you will be left behind to follow them:

Luke 21
34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Matthew 24:36  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Matthew 25:13  Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

There are those who are watching for the rapture and to escape this earth that they whore after false prophets who tell them what they want to hear instead of verifying what they are told with scripture.  They do not care that the false prophet may be speaking truth about current events but leading them to follow the false "gods" and false "Jesus's" of the apostasy.  These ear tickling false prophets are a test by Yahweh to see if you love Him and follow Messiah Yeshua in truth or if you are just using Him as an escape from this earth and from hell - a fear of hell but no love for the Creator and not truly following Messiah Yeshua and listening to His voice - but rather listening to the voice of a seducing spirit:

Deuteronomy 13
1  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
:2  And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3  Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4  Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

Many false prophets lead you to follow the ba-al of christmas, of ishtar (easter), and claim you do not have to obey Yahweh.  Messiah Yeshua said He will reject those who do not obey Yahweh - so is He your Messiah that you listen to or is a false teacher that says you can ignore what Yahweh says the voice you are listening to?

John 10:27  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

1 John 3:4  Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Matthew 7
21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. ^G458

Strong's number G458 iniquity (transliterated as anomia)   :
anomia
1) the condition of without law
     a) because ignorant of it
     b) because of violating it
2) contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness

John 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

1 John 2
3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 5
2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Revelation 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

There are those "christians" who know every bible verse regarding future prophecy, what events will happen during the tribulation, and who will be allied with who (etc.) that have no clue what Yahweh expects of us and has no clue of what Messiah Yeshua - the one they claim to love and follow - taught when He was physically on the earth.  Many twist the words of the apostle Paul and follow the twisted words even though the way they were twisted contradicts what Mesiah Yeshua CLEARLY taught - they make Paul into someone of their own imagination and made him the "god" they are following.  These people are no better than the "christian" cults who have made Messiah Yeshua into someone He is not.  Peter said people would fall from the faith because they twist the words of Paul and follow that instead of what He really taught.  Remember, the Bereans compared what Paul taught with the old testament and compared Messiah Yeshua with what was revealed in the old testament and neither contradicted it otherwise they would have rejected both Paul and Messiah Yeshua:

2 Peter 3
15  And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16  As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

Acts 17
10  And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12  Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. 

We need to be sure of what we believe and why we believe --- in other words, we need to know bible apologetics.  You cannot be a Christian if you refuse to learn as much as you can about the one you claim to love and follow - for those that read this blog that means you have access to a bible - at least an online bible - so you have no excuse to not study and show yourself to be a true follower of Messiah Yeshua.

2 Timothy 2
15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17  And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18  Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19  Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.