ASCENSION DAY .... Our BODIES Shall RISE Out of the GRAVE ! The SAVIOR'S PROMISE to Us !

 Ascension Day on the Christian Calendar falls on 5.5.2016 for those following the western church calendar. The Eastern Orthodox celebrate Ascension Day this year on 6.9.2016.  It is the 40th Day of the Resurrection Season, regardless of which Christian Calendar is followed. . 

The ASCENSION of CHRIST is VITAL ... and an important part of the Resurrection  !  The satan hates that our body will be glorified and rise into the Heavenlies... just like Our LORD'S BODY. 

Death had no more dominion over HIM+. 

Because of THAT, death WILL exercise no more dominion over our bodies, either, on that GREAT DAY, when the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall arise ... incorruptible !  

The Risen CHRIST JESUS ascended to The FATHER.

His+ FLESH ... yes, His+ very FLESH, now GLORIFIED ... ascended into the Heavenlies. 

What's more ... even though Glorified,   the Body of His+ Flesh    was still able to function as JESUS did when HE+ was incarnate.

HE+ ate fish and honey; HE+ was able to walk and talk. HE+ had flesh and bones, nail prints and a wounded in His+ fleshy side ... just as touchable as HE+ was when HE+ was incarnate and dwelt among us.

That FACT ALONE should make Christians extremely JOYFUL . 

Who else can make the Dead to rise and the Flesh to enter into Heaven ?

None other than

Our LORD JESUS CHRIST.

HE+ alone fought the battle

to save

our FLESH,

as well as our spirit and soul

from the Second Death.

JESUS ascended unto the RIGHT HAND of The FATHER.

HE+ ascended to make intercession for us... i.e., HE+ intervenes between the satan and us, reminding him that HE+ WON the fight. JESUS CHRIST won the battle to rescue man ... soul, spirit, AND BODY ...  out of death's clutches.

Yes... even the FLESH of MAN shall become incorruptible when the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised... glorified and INCORRUPTIBLE ... with bodies like unto His+ Glorious Body !

Since by man came death,

by Man came also

the RESURRECTION

of the Dead !

1 Corinthians 15:21

As in Adam all die,

Even so in CHRIST,

shall all be made alive ...

... INCLUDLING our fleshly bodies !

No matter how ... or when ... or where  ... we die on planet earth, Our LORD JESUS CHRIST will make our dust to rise and re-form again into our glorified, functioning, and earthly bodies.

They will be exactly the same body that we left, only without the blemishes, limitations, and handicaps we all have.

The Saints beheaded for CHRIST will be intact, heads in place !  The severed limbs, the broken bodies of saints tortured for CHRIST will be mended, healed, made whole again ... better than before!

What a GLORIOUS PROMISE to have !  This Promise, of course, only extends to those who are New Creatures in CHRIST. 

The Invitation is still OPEN. Whosoever WILL may come to JESUS, no matter the depth of sin, to be cleansed and made whole and out-fitted for the Kingdom of GOD, in linen pure and white.

Oh, how we LOVE our GLORIFIED SAVIOR ! 

COME, LORD JESUS, COME!

Acts 1:6-11

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, LORD, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

And HE+ said unto them,

It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which The FATHER hath put in HIS own power.

But ye shall receive power,

after that the HOLY SPIRIT is come upon you:

and ye shall be witnesses unto ME+

both in Jerusalem,

and in all Judaea, and in Samaria,

and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And when HE+ had spoken these things,

while they beheld,

HE+ was taken up;

and a cloud received HIM+

out of their sight.

And while they looked stedfastly toward Heaven

as HE+ went up,

behold,

two men stood by them

in white apparel;

Which also said,

Ye men of Galilee,

why stand ye gazing up into Heaven?

this same JESUS,

WHO+ is taken up from you into Heaven,

shall so come in like manner

as ye have seen HIM+ go

into Heaven.

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Let us pray...

O GOD, our FATHER, Who for our redemption didst given thine Only-Begotten SON+ JESUS CHRIST to the death of the Cross.

And by HIS+ GLORIOUS RESURRECTION of His+ flesh has delivered us from the power of the adversary and the power of death...

Grant us SO TO DIE DAILY from sin, that we may EVERMORE live with HIM+  in the joy of His+ Resurrection ...

through the Same, Thy SON+ JESUS CHRIST our LORD Who+ lives and reigns with THEE and Thy Blessed HOLY SPIRIT...

now and forever, ONE GOD, world without end. Amen.

Glorious SAVIOR, our LORD JESUS CHRIST !  We love THEE+, we praise THEE+, we worship THEE+ in our lives !

Amen, and thankfully so !

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The SUPPER of the 7-Headed Beast with the 10 RAVENOUS Horns ...

The Supper of the Seven-Headed Beast with the 10 RAVENOUS Horns...

Its Menu has been Appointed:

the Great Whore

is the Main Course.

Of Seven Mountains, this Seven-Headed beast has 10 RULING Horns, one for each of those hidden but globally-powerful "ten kings" who rule the earth but have NO KINGDOM.  

Who is this Great Whore ?

Her characteristics are found in Revelation 17.

1. The Great Whore rides the beast of the bottomless pit.

1. This filthy creature sits upon many waters. Thus, the Great Whore has contact with the Seven Mountains. 

If the "many waters" are the oceans and the "seven mountains" are the continents of this world, then the Great Whore ENCOMPASSES the entire earthly world.

This filthy creature "sits" upon peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. (Rev. 17:15)

2. She gives Wine to the inhabitants of the earth, making them drunk... senseless, incapable of making right judgments.

Thus, she enables them to live in a heightened sense of their own base powers, all fantasy, not based on reality.

3. She is be-robed in purple and scarlet.

4. She is decked with gold, pearls, and precious stones. ( Huge sums of wealth are given to this unclean creature. )

5. This filthy creature fornicates with the kings of this world. (There is close contact with the world’s leaders… indeed, they are bed-fellows, in secret. )

6. She carries a filthy cup, even though made of gold, which CONTAINS the wine of the filthiness of her fornications and abominations.

7. Engraved on her forehead is her name:

·                  Mystery

·                  Babylon the Great

·             Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth

8. Her Wine Cup is filled with the Blood of the Saints and the Martyrs of JESUS.  She is drunk on this "drink" of Blood.

9. This filthy creature, called a Great City, REIGNS over the kings of the earth

.... until...

10. The 10 Kings turn and burn HER, make HER desolate, strip HER of her finery, hate HER, and eat HER .

WHO, then, is that Great, Filthy, Creature called the "Whore" who rides the beast of the bottomless pit?

Could it be Islam ? 

Could it be the oil-rich countries ? 

Could it be Apostate Christianity ?

Could it be Babylon the Great of chapter 18 of Revelation --- the world's greatest power of commerce and military might? 

Could it be ALL of the above since they are in AGREEMENT and work toward the same goal, following the same agenda?

 Revelation 17: 16-17

And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

For GOD hath put in their hearts

to fulfil HIS will,

and to agree,

and give their kingdom

unto the beast,

until the Words of GOD

shall be fulfilled.

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Let this be a warning …

… to all those who agree with the agenda of the Great Whore. 

The Satan always devours his instruments, those he uses to destroy others.

Your Last State will be worse

than your First.

You will have your ever-lasting Portion of Satan’s Judgment in The Second Death in the Lake of Burning Fire … where the Worm does not die and the Fire is Never Quenched.

Thus saith The LORD.

30 DAYS ... and Counting ... Through the Glorious RESURRECTION SEASON ...

Today is DAY 30 of the  "40 days and nights"  Our Risen LORD JESUS CHRIST spent with His+ Disciples, coming and going among them, teaching them those things concerning the Kingdom of GOD, opening unto them the Scriptures concerning HIMSELF+. 

Can we just IMAGINE how filled with JOY and HOPE His+ followers were... those same ones who had heard HIM+ teach, who had walked with HIM+ daily, and who saw HIM+ die ?  

Forty Days and Nights are a LONG TIME  for our Resurrected LORD JESUS to spend here on earth, appearing at will behind closed and locked doors,   disappearing at will , and even eating...  to the awe of His+ Disciples. 

We have only come to Day 30 yet from the Glorious Resurrection Day,  counting down to ASCENSION DAY.    Here is a laud with which to worship Our Risen LORD: 

A  SONG to The LAMB+

(Revelation 4:11, 5: 9-10, 13 )

 

Splendor and honor 

and kingly power

are YOURS by Right, 

O LORD our GOD,

 

For You created 

everything that is,

and by Your will 

they were created

and have their being;  

 

And Yours by right, 

O LAMB+ that was slain, 

for with Your Blood 

You have redeemed for GOD ,

from every family, languages, people, and nation,

a Kingdom of Priests 

to serve our GOD.

 

 And so,   

to HIM 

Who sits upon the Throne

and to CHRIST the LAMB+,

be worship and praise,

dominion and splendor, 

for ever and for evermore. 

(BCP , Morning Prayer II, pg 93-94)   

WHY? Why Do The Nations RAGE ?

Why  ? 

is a GOOD QUESTION!

 

The Palestinian authority has postponed its latest request for a U.N. resolution to push Israel to stop building homes on Israel’s own territory, the Jerusalem Post reported on Friday, April 22, 2016.

 

WHY ?

 

 

France is putting forth a plan for the dividing up of Israel and Jerusalem, but is now calling for a “peace” conference in Geneva in May to discuss this issue.

 

 Oddly,  Neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority are invited to that conference… to divide up Israeli land.

 

WHY ?

 

Meanwhile, UNESCO has renamed the Western Wall – The Wailing Wall-- "The Al-Buraq Plaza," IGNORING the Jewish claim to the site of its two historic Temples.

 

WHY ?

 

UNESCO is calling Israel “the occupying power,” and blaming “Israel aggression”  for violence at the site.

 

WHY?

 

This statement was made despite  HISTORIC facts.

RECALL: that the war of 1967 to annihilate Israel was begun by the United Arab Republic ( i.e., Egypt) and Jordan and Syria … who were miraculously defeated IN SIX DAYS by the small Israeli Army and Air Force as the Arabs were amassing troops on the Israeli border ... to attack Israel.

 

Hence, the Israelis captured the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria in this 6-Day war of 1967 … which Israel did not want nor start. 

 

( And while  noting HISTORICAL FACTS, please take note that "Palestinians" were NOT a distinct people group and owned NO part of the Holy Land in 1967, just a few  decades ago.  So... who is "occupying" the West Bank and Gaza Strip now, pray tell ? ) 

 

Had those Arab nations been satisfied with their portion, Israel would be much smaller … and harder to defend … today.

 

In the recent, one-sided, UNESCO announcement, it made no mention of the muslim rioters and their violence against innocent Jews and Christians who come near the Temple Mount simply to pray at the Wailing Wall.

 

( Reports from http://unitycoalitionforisrael.org and 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, Wikipedia)

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PSALM 2:1-4

 

Why

 ...do the nations rage,

and the people imagine

a vain thing ?

 

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD YHWH, and against HIS MASHIYACH+, saying,

 

 

"Let us break Their bands asunder, and cast away Their cords from us."

 

 

HE that sits in the Heavens shall laugh:

 

the LORD ADONAI+ shall have them in derision. 

 

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Why are they at it again ?

 

Why are the nations  DETERMINED to annihilate the Seed of the Whole House of Israel ?  ( both the Natural and the Grafted IN Branches )

 

Why are the nations so stupid ?

 

... or rather, so dull of wit ?

 

Who has drugged them,

and made their senses so very dull ?

 

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JOEL 3:4

 

Yea, and what have you to do with ME,

O Tyre, and Zidon,

and all

the coasts of Palestine?

 

Will ye render ME a recompense?

 

and if ye recompense ME,

 

swiftly and speedily

will I+ return your recompense

upon your own head;

 

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Take heed, 

you nations that foam at the mouth, 

that speak great swelling words 

at My+ Expense.

 

Your recompense is coming soon.

 

A recompense like Pharaoh’s indisputable recompense.

 

Pharaoh would not turn from his satanic desire to destroy My+ Servants...

even though HE KNEW they were MINE+,

not his.

 

Even though Pharaoh clearly KNEW I+ was defending My+ People... at his expense.

 

Even though Pharaoh clearly saw My+ Hand of Power and Might... at his expense.

 

Even though Pharaoh clearly heard his counselors (Exodus 8:19) tell him he could not win against GOD ALMIGHTY, Pharaoh plunged forward in hatred ... at his own expense.

 

So I allowed Pharaoh to have his own will and hardened his heart in his own choice.

 

Pharaoh’s own arrogance destroyed him ...

... despoiled his land's enormous riches...

... vanquished his nation's invincible army

... and afflicted all his own people.

 

Beware: 

 I+ have spoken THROUGH-OUT THE AGES to you haters of the Seed of the Whole House of Israel. If you choose to retain your hatred, you will receive the recompense planned.

 

It is not because of their righteousness that Israel is not destroyed, but rather.....

...because ISRAEL is MINE+. 

 

You ... and the 10 kings directing your path, and the unclean ones directing them,

 ... cannot have what is MINE+.

 

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HE+ Who+ Watches Over Israel,

neither slumbers nor sleeps.

Psalm 121:4

 

 

 

 

HE Watching Over ISRAEL ...

... slumbers not

nor sleepeth. 

COURTESY OF: 

Judgement Day Comes! 

Will the USA Turn it's Back on Israel 
Prophecy from Due Diligence 

on Tuesday Apr 19 2016 

 Beforeitsnews.com

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The U.N. Security Council members are set to incur the Wrath of GOD against them ...  and their land ... and their peoples... this Passover. 

On Passover 2016, Year of Our LORD, 4.22.2016, the members of the UN Security Council are going to vote on adopting a resolution introduced by the Palestinians to divide Israel ... and perhaps Jerusalem.  Mr. President has declared that he will support the resolution (s). 

This is in line with the Kerry Peace ( Piece ? ) plan.  

There is also a push to FORCE ISRAEL to return the Golan Heights to Syria... the area Israel won while defending itself against the bombs and attacks lobbed at it from Syria, from the Golan Heights in 1967, in a war of annihilation. 

Mr. Netanyahu stated, " NO. We will not return the Golan. To whom should we return it?  To isis ? ? "

Scripture states that those who stand against Israel, DIRECTLY become the enemy of The LORD. 

Woe , woe, woe to the nation and nations who touch the apple of GOD'S eye.  

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HEAR, O NATION of Arrogance... 

HEAR, O WORLD of Iniquity: 

You shall not win.

You have chosen to come against My people in many lands. 

Now you are coming against My People in My land. 

Thus ... I will come against your people in your land. 

You who are leading the campaign to crush My Ancient People, your goal is not hidden from ME. 

Your plots are not hidden from ME.  I hear what you plan in secret, in your secret rooms, with your secret henchmen. 

I see all your secret devices, hidden from the eyes of men, but you forget WHO made the eye. 

Your intricate devices are not hidden from ME. 

You forget that your most clever devices depend upon the Universe which I set in motion... and can change at will. 

Your finely-turned devices shall come to naught. They have no power to stop ME. They will, in fact, be your doom. 

No, you shall NOT have world dominion. 

There is ONE spot in this world where you shall not rule and reign. It is the Apple of My Eye.  I neither slumber nor sleep. 

All who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces... lacerated... gashed... torn apart violently. 

I know WHO you desire to destroy in all your exalted weapons of mass destruction... the HOLY ONE+ of Israel. 

You cannot reach that ONE+. 

But... 

HE+ can reach you. 

And soon shall.  

The Judgment has been set; the decree written; the out-come sure. 

Thus saith The LORD. 

 [ Zechariah 12:3, Psalm 121:4 , Zechariah 2:8, Daniel 7:22-27, Obadiah 1:3-4 ... and many others. ]