The Passover

It is 1:30 am. And I've never been more wide awake. I was jerked out of my sleep with a warning and it comes with such urgency that I cannot say if I will ever have another chance to warn anybody. I have written warning articles before but never with the sense of dire urgency that this comes. I have said before that we needed to prepare because hard times were coming but now they are here. This has nothing to do with being prepared with extra food, water or medicines though you need those things too but this is about the preparedness of your soul. Tragedy is falling all around us and is only beginning. What we are now seeing are warnings from a loving God who is trying to wake us up to what is ahead. The reason that I know this is because when flooding or tornado or fire or some other severe thing happens to a community there are always stories of miracles, people escaping with their lives when they thought they should have died. This is God in His mercy, showing His ability to spare whoever He wishes. This will not always be the case. Many of those escaping with their lives are not Christians and are not giving God credit for sparing their lives and He is giving them a chance to turn to Him. However, the days are coming and much sooner than anyone thinks when not a single life will be spared unless they are solidly committed to Christ and are steadfast in their faith. Scripture warns not only of the judgement of God falling on sinful man but that the "Restrainer" being removed from the earth Who has restrained the devil and then the full wrath of the devil is released on the earth and his wrath is great because he knows that his days are short. The time is near when he will be cast bound into the pit for a thousand years and he is determined to do as much damage as he can before that happens. This warning is to everyone even if you believe you are a Christian. It is time to examine your life in every aspect and don't rely on your own judgement but pray and ask the Lord to search your heart because the Apostle Paul who wrote most of the New Testament said that he did not judge himself because he knew his own heart and that lack of conviction did not vindicate him. He trusted in God to reveal what was in him if he asked and you can too but you must ask and sincerely want to know. God is faithful and desires that no one perish but it is up to us. You may think I'm being arrogant by saying that God told me to send out this warning, well I personally don't care anymore what anybody thinks about me but I do care very much about humanity and what is now happening and is only going to get much worse. Scripture says that what has begun and will continue is worse than anything the world has ever experineced or ever will again and if God does not cut those days short that not a single person will survive but for the elect's sake He will cut those days short. Are you among the elect? Are you sure? If you want to know more about what is to be among the elect then you need to review my previous blogs for I have done my best to lay it out. It certainly is not about the complacent life that most people are living now. I titled this blog "The Passover" and the reason being that we have entered the time of a new Passover and now I will proceed to describe the Passover for those who are not totally familiar with it. Scripture states that first is the natural and then the spiritual. 1 Corinthians 15:46
New King James Version (NKJV)

46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. There was a natural Passover clear back in Egypt which was the last plague to strike the people of Egypt because Pharaoh would not let the Hebrews go. God instructed Moses to tell the Hebrews to slaughter a lamb without blemish and take it's blood and put it all around the door frame of their home because at midnight the Angel of the Lord would pass over the land and destroy the firstborn of every household that did not have the blood over the door. That is exactly what happened and their was a great cry throughout the land for every single home without the blood had a dead person in it and it was the first born and the firstborn was always considered the most important. This was the final straw for Pharaoh and he finally caved in and released the Hebrews. That's not exactly the end of the story but it is enough for this article because now we need to get into the spiritual aspect of this. Before that horrible Passover there were 8 other plagues that were warnings that he did not heed. Today we have warnings that people are not heeding either. God has offered a remedy because there is indeed another Passover coming and is very near. The remedy is His Son. We can learn from scripture that Christ was God's Passover Lamb and His blood was shed and intended to be applied to the door of our hearts in order that when judgement came upon all mankind that those who had the blood applied could be passed over.
His blood is more than sufficient to save you even from a nuclear explosion. Take out a moment and read Psalm 91 for it is a promise of shelter from whatever is coming upon mankind in the last days and you may see there nearly every possible disaster is covered though the language is quaint it is the only way someone who lived thousands of years ago could describe what we are seeing today. Right now tornadoes are stronger than we've seen in our lifetime and doing tremendous damage but it is only the beginning because when God's hand of mercy is lifted not a life will be spared except those who truly belong to Him nor will a single building be left standing. There won't be anybody to proudly say "we'll rebuild". The bible says that when this starts coming upon us that it will be as a man who is fleeing from a bear and meets a lion or when he is in his house and leans his arm against the wall and a snake bites him. There will be no escape. The Bible speaks of pestilance, we'll the news is now telling about a new e'coli that has broken out in Europe that is deadly and resistant to antibiotics and they don't even know what it is from. this is only the beginning.

So we have a narrow window in which to make a choice and I don't know why it's so hard for some people to make that choice. I have spent litterally hundreds of hours trying to describe what a wonderful life it is when it is fully submitted to God. It cannot be compared to anything earthly because it is supernatural and full of surprises. I fear there are not many who call themselves Christian that know what I am talking about because I talk to quite a few and I rarely hear anyone mention experiences of the nature that are common daily occurences for me and the few others that I know that have learned to walk with God.
Many say they are committed but they are not "submitted" and there is a vast difference. In my last article I tried to lay out the diffence and I truly hope that you can get a hold of it and act on it rather than to find out the hard way that you really didn't have the Blood over your door after all. I'm praying for you. May God open the eyes of your heart and may you act on it before it is too late.
john