Men have long recognized that the Book of Revelation predicts and portrays conditions during the time of the Day of the LORD. Many Christians believed they would be “raptured” out of this world before this Day came, but they were mistaken. The Day has come and we are still here. The Book of Revelation tells us that God brings the Day of the Lord for a specific reason. He must judge mankind because he has passed the point of no return. Man, as a group, can no longer repent. Many men no longer believe in him and those who do do not know his ways. The first group can never learn his ways.  Since they believe he does not exist and thus there are no specific “ways” to learn, they cannot, therefore, repent.  The second group, which includes all people who believe in one God, have so assimilated false religious ways that they can not now turn and walk in truth either.  They, like utter non-believers, cannot repent.  Together these people, all of mankind except God’s called and chosen faithful, make up the “man of lawlessness,” the man of sin who ushered in the Day of the LORD.

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, that the day of the Lord is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come the falling away first, and that man of sin [lawlessness] be revealed, the son of perdition. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-3)

Remember, Revelation tells us about specific plagues which God sends upon mankind. He designs these plagues with a specific purpose in mind, to show and prove to them that they have passed beyond redemption in this age.

And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. (Revelation 9:20-21 KJ2000)

Men today, of course, deny that they worship demons or own or bow down to manmade idols, but they do. Likewise they engage in every other sin which God forbade in his Ten Commandments. Unbelievers say these commandments have no relevance; believers say they have “grace” to disobey them, unless you are a Muslim. Muslims believe that you need to cut off the hands of children who steal a loaf of bread and execute Muslims who convert to Christianity. All alike have left God and his ways.

And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun; and power was given unto it to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. And the fifth angel poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. (Revelation 16:8-11 KJ2000)

The man of sin is Adam, corporate mankind, who has reached the zenith of his “evolution.” He cannot repent because he has committed the unpardonable sin; he has blasphemed God’s Holy Spirit.  He calls evil “good” and good “evil.” He cannot turn from his evil and do good because he thinks the evil he does is good! This describes the Day we live in. We have entered the Day of the LORD. Believe it. Now let us watch the judgments of God continue to unfold as we seek to do his will in the midst of this chaos.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that you will cover and protect your chosen ones, that you will grant us a spirit of repentance from our sins, and that we will walk in your love, doing your will as these evil days wax worse and worse. Please give us wisdom to know what to do and say. Amen.

I find Isaiah to be the Bible’s preeminent book concerning the Day of the LORD. From its very beginning God explains why that Day must come.

²Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;
for the LORD has spoken:
“Children have I reared and brought up,
but they have rebelled against me.
³The ox knows its owner,
and the donkey its master’s crib,
but Israel does not know,
my people do not understand.”

⁴Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the LORD,
they have despised the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly estranged.

Notice to whom God speaks here. Like almost everywhere else in Scripture, he does not speak to unbelievers. He speaks to believers, he is speaking to his children, to Israel. Ancient Israel was that nation God called out of earth’s other nations. First God called Abram from Ur of the Chaldees and later renamed him Abraham. He brought Abram to the land of Canaan and promised him and his descendants all of that land. Abraham bore Isaac who in turn bore Esau and Jacob. Jacob inherited the birthright from Isaac and when God had transformed his character into that of an overcomer God renamed him Israel, which means “God rules.” Jacob Israel had twelve sons who became the twelve tribes of Israel when God established the nation of Israel in about 1400 B.C. The nation itself was established after Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. We can read all about this history in the books of Genesis and Exodus. The main point I want to make here, though, is that God himself established Israel in the earth as his particular and peculiar nation. He intended that they represent him in the world of men. History, however, clearly shows that the nation Israel failed to obey God.

Isaiah wrote before either Israel or Judah was destroyed by invading armies. He considered both nations his people; both had descended from Jacob Israel. God speaks through his prophet and begins by commanding the entire universe, both heaven and earth, to bear witness to his proclamation. He calls Israel his very children. He raised them and provided for them, he says, but they rebelled against him. They forsook God and turned to sin and evil. They became consumed by idolatry and sin and actually became as bad or worse than the nations they came from and dispossessed when they settled their land. For this reason God sent prophets, including Isaiah, who announced God’s coming judgment upon them. The prophets called the coming time of judgment ”the Day of the LORD.” And, when judgment finally did fall upon the northern kingdom of Israel, when thousands died and thousands more were deported to far-off lands, it was “the Day of the LORD” for them. Similarly, when Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and took captive the remaining thousands to Shinar this was also “the Day of the LORD” to them. 

A careful reading of the prophetic literature, however, convinced me that the Day of the LORD is not limited to the time of God’s judgment upon Israel and Judah. That Day speaks prophetically to the time we now live in. Paul, when preaching the Gospel, said,

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, that the day of the Lord is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come the falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition …. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-3)

I suggest to you that both of these conditions have been fulfilled, 1) the falling away, the great apostasy, has occurred, and 2) the man of sin has been revealed. And this is exactly why the the Day of the LORD must now come, in fact, why it has already begun. (To be continued)

God did not begin to reveal the concept of the Day of the LORD until his called out people began to sin with impunity against his Law and to rebel against him. This began in earnest under the reign of Solomon just prior to the division of Israel in about 930 BC into the northern kingdom which was still called Israel and the southern kingdom which began to be called Judah. Solomon first led Israel into sin by marrying foreign women and building temples to their false gods. For this reason God determined to divide Israel and pronounced judgment through his prophet Ahijah.

And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and the two were alone in the field: And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces: And he said to Jeroboam, Take you ten pieces: for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you: (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) Because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him ruler all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes: But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto you, even ten tribes. And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen to put my name there. And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel. (1 Kings 11:29-37)

Israel obeyed God no better under Jeroboam, however, for in order to try to prevent his kingdom from reuniting with Judah, he made and set up two calves of gold for Israel to worship.  See 1 Kings 12:26-33. He even established priests for his new kingdom who did not come from the line of Levi. This led to continuing idolatry and apostasy in Israel.

Finally, after about 150 years of decline, God sent the prophet Amos to chastise them and pronounce impending judgment. It is Amos who gives us the popular verse which so many charismatic churches quote (since they at least do still believe prophets exist):

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets. (Amos 3:7)

This saying was true then. It is true now. Amos began his book by revealing God’s judgment to come upon all the nations which surrounded Judah and Israel, Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. Then he pronounces judgment upon Judah for “rejecting the Law of the LORD” and for lying. (Amos 2:4) Next he rebukes Israel for the sins of greed, covetousness, and sexual immorality. (Amos 2:6-8) Almost all the rest of his book deals with the specific judgments that God will soon send upon Israel for their sins.

It is too lengthy to get into today and I have taught about this before, but old Testament Israel (the northern kingdom) prophetically typifies the New Testament Christian Church. Like Israel of old the Church established its idols and its pagan practices. For example, the Catholic Church idolized Ishtar (another word for Ashtoreth) in the form of Mary and then established ”Easter” as its primary holiday. The word “Easter” appears nowhere in the Bible. It was wrongly placed there as a translation for “Passover” in the King James Bible. Jesus is our Passover Lamb, not our Easter bunny. Martin Luther broke from the Catholic Church for various reasons, not the least of which was its selling of “indulgences.” If you paid the right price to the Church officials, then you could sin whatever sin you paid for.

In its turn Martin Luther’s reformation birthed thousands of “Protestant” churches. But now those churches have gone the way of their mother and become harlots in their own right, just as Israel prostituted herself hundreds and hundreds of years before. As Solomon taught, “That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past.” (Ecclesiastes 3:15) The sin of Israel was 2800 years ago. The sin of the Christian Church is now. The Catholic, the Eastern Orthodox, the Coptic, the Protestant, and all other churches today make up the Christian Church. Many protestants mistakenly believe that the Catholic Church is Babylon the Great of Revelation 17 and 18. They are mistaken. Mystery Babylon includes ALL the churches. Only those who come out of her idolatrous and false ways escape her punishment. This is why John called her a mystery and also why he was so astonished when he saw her. “This,” he thought, “is what the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church I taught, has become?” See Revelation 17:6-7.

The prophecies of the Old Testament prophets apply to the Church just as they did to Israel and Judah of old. This series will be too short to examine all of their prophecies concerning us today, but in future posts I will attempt to hit the highlights. (To be continued…)

It astounds me that so few Christians even today realize the time we live in. We have now passed from “the last days” to “the Day of the LORD.” How do I know? Because Mystery Babylon has now been identified and the judgments specified in the Bible upon this great harlot have begun. Why didn’t World War I or World War II designate the beginning of the Day of the LORD? Because those wars were wake up calls for those nations of the West who once called themselves Christian. But, rather than thank God for their continued existence and rather than repenting of their sins, these nations, all of them, went off to spurn and reject God, sinning each new day with greater strength and vigor to do evil.

Today most men of worldly standing call Christianity a myth. They believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution and prefer to pray, if they pray at all, to the pagan deities of indigenous peoples than to the God who created heaven and earth. History has run its course. The earth has worn out like a dirty, ill-used blanket for man has purposely polluted and raped it with his unrelenting quest for mammon. Massive animal die-offs mark these last four months and will continue increased and unabated because of massive world-wide pollution and purposeful destruction of ecosystems.

I believe that the Mexican Gulf Oil Disaster of April 2010 actually began the Day of the LORD. It may have begun earlier, but I do not know that defining date. This disaster is ongoing and catastrophic. You need to be watching it because it affects you. I no longer buy shrimp or anything else that I think comes from the Gulf of Mexico waters. More than 100,000 people along the Gulf currently suffer from what I call Gulf Oil Syndrome. Some have already died. The mainstream news blackout and US and BP coverups continue.

We have also seen unprecedented massive wildlife kills since December 2010. Our government offers ridiculous reasons for the catastrophes. For example, when thousands of red-winged blackbirds fell to their death at the new year they claimed that fireworks scared them and they flew into trees and killed themselves. The poor things! How ludicrous! Since these blackbird deaths the world has witnessed massive deaths of dolphin, eagles, octopus, starlings, penguins, Eider ducks, cattle, buffalo, magpie, mallards, seals, pelicans, crows, Menhaden fish, grackles, crickets, gizzard shad, turtledoves, pigeons, crabs, jackdaws, American coot, bats, clams, drumfish, jelly fish, and the list goes on and on.  Today it is reported that “[m]illions of anchovies, mackerel, sardines and other small fish washed up dead overnight in the harbor area of Redondo Beach, Calif., just south of Los Angeles.” Also remember that the world’s honey bees have been dying en mass for several years now. “Mass animal deaths are normal,” says our government. And I say, “No way. These deaths are not normal and you know it.”

These mass animal deaths make up a significant sign that we have now passed into the Day of the LORD. The following Scripture tells us why this has happened. It also specifically mentions that these mass animal kills show the time we live in.

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells in it shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest. Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. (Hosea 4:1-6)

Today’s “Children of Israel” are Christians. This passage speaks prophetically to us, Christians at the end of time, at the beginning of the Day of the LORD, Christians who rebelled against God by replacing his word with their own and then went off to sin in every way imaginable. Wake up and acknowledge your sin! Repent! Learn to practice righteousness! This is your only hope … (Go to Part 2)

The year 2011 begins with many profound signs that we have entered the Day of the LORD.

See The Day of the LORD.

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of [America]: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells in it shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest. Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. (Hosea 4:1-6 KJ2000)

We have entered the Day of the LORD. We see the judgments of God all around us. Here’s one big example. Let’s not ignore it. Click this link: Yea, the fish of the sea shall also be taken away.

Louisiana Fish Kill - September 2010

Today is the Biblical day of the Feast of Trumpets.  “Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.” (Hosea 8:1 KJ2000)

And here is the Word of the LORD for today as we enter the twilight time of evening, at the beginning of the Day of the LORD.  As you read this remember that, prophetically, Israel in the following passage represents the Church today.  Today’s Church parades itself in its corruption as Israel did 2800 years ago. But she is about to go the same way as Israel. First, she shall bear her son, the manchild, who shall rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Then she shall fall and rise no more as she hides herself in the wilderness as the wrath of God unfolds in the earth. The carnal Church will never again rise in glory when Christ’s righteousness covers the earth as the waters cover the sea.

Amos 5:1-27 (ESV) 
    Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
    [2] “Fallen, no more to rise,
        is the virgin Israel;
    forsaken on her land,
        with none to raise her up.”
 [3] For thus says the Lord God:
    “The city that went out a thousand
        shall have a hundred left,
    and that which went out a hundred
        shall have ten left
        to the house of Israel.”
 [4] For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
    “Seek me and live;
        [5] but do not seek Bethel,
    and do not enter into Gilgal
        or cross over to Beersheba;
    for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
        and Bethel shall come to nothing.”
    [6] Seek the Lord and live,
        lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
        and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,
    [7] O you who turn justice to wormwood
        and cast down righteousness to the earth!
    [8] He who made the Pleiades and Orion,
        and turns deep darkness into the morning
        and darkens the day into night,
    who calls for the waters of the sea
        and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
    the Lord is his name;
    [9] who makes destruction flash forth against the strong,
        so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
    [10] They hate him who reproves in the gate,
        and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
    [11] Therefore because you trample on the poor
        and you exact taxes of grain from him,
    you have built houses of hewn stone,
        but you shall not dwell in them;
    you have planted pleasant vineyards,
        but you shall not drink their wine.
    [12] For I know how many are your transgressions
        and how great are your sins—
    you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe,
        and turn aside the needy in the gate.
    [13] Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time,
        for it is an evil time.
    [14] Seek good, and not evil,
        that you may live;
    and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
        as you have said.
    [15] Hate evil, and love good,
        and establish justice in the gate;
    it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
        will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
 [16] Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord:
    “In all the squares there shall be wailing,
        and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
    They shall call the farmers to mourning
        and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,
    [17] and in all vineyards there shall be wailing,
        for I will pass through your midst,”
says the Lord.
    [18] Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
        Why would you have the day of the Lord?
    It is darkness, and not light,
        [19] as if a man fled from a lion,
        and a bear met him,
    or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,
        and a serpent bit him.
    [20] Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,
        and gloom with no brightness in it?
    [21] “I hate, I despise your feasts,
        and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
    [22] Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
        I will not accept them;
    and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
        I will not look upon them.
    [23] Take away from me the noise of your songs;
        to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
    [24] But let justice roll down like waters,
        and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
 [25] “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?  [26] You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,  [27] and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

Now,

Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name: That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly. Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. [Just watch the news. Those who speak out who really have the potential of doing damage to the world system are taken into "protective custody" or just murdered. The wisdom of the LORD today is to just remain silent. This worldly system is coming down very soon]

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus: Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing. And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD. Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not take delight in your solemn assemblies. Though you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fatted beasts. Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your harps.

But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (Amos 5:8-24 KJ2000)

I write for those who aspire to be overcomers before their God and King, for those who have put off their double minds.

Long Term Effects may be Catastrophic (added 8/9/10)

Prophetic Insights into the Disaster

Revelation 8:8-9

A Little Insider Info

A Must See Video

Continuing Secrecy by BP about the oil damage in the gulf.

Below are some comments and links on a new report on Drudge Report of June 2, 2010.  Almost from the beginning I have seen reports that stated that the rig fire and oil spill were deliberately caused.  It seems insane to me that a turn-off valve would not have been installed at the ocean floor “just in case.”  The main give-away that it may have been deliberately caused can be seen in Goldman Sachs shorting and selling BP stock just before the disaster.

Click here to read the story. Then read the comments below.

hmmm, saw this posted on Huff Post, didn’t take it seriously at first:

If I shorted Gulf stocks the day before this platform explosion and bought a company that puts out oil well fires the week before, I’d have the FBI at my door within hours.

Cheney’s Halliburton bought a company called Boots & Coots which became well known for putting out some of the world’s largest oil and gas fires. 8 days before the disaster http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/69…

Goldman Sachs shorted the Gulf Oil stocks the day before the accident http://www.examiner.com/x-8199-Breakthrough-Ene…

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.a…

Cementing of the oil rig well was finished only 20 hours before the explosion http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st…

BP sent workers from the well head testing company home 11 hours before the explosion on April 20 — “without performing a final check http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/bp-smo…

A team from Schlumberger, which is highly regarded for their safety, asks a BP company man to use the Cement Bond Log (CBL) to dump fluid down the well and BP’s company man refused. Schlumberger rep decides to leave citing safety issues but only if they called in their own transport as BP rep would not let Schlumberger leave on a BP Chopper.
http://adropofrain.net/2010/05/rumor-schlumberg…

The next article raises some very valid concerns: Purposely Killing the Gulf?

This is the beginning of the Day of the LORD…

The following link takes you to a living example of someone guilty of the unforgivable sin.  Her sin is unforgivable because she calls evil good and good evil.  She cannot repent because for her sin is good and good itself has become sin.  This is why her sin is unforgivable.  This is how we know the Day of the LORD has come.  Man sits as God (making his own laws and rules) in the temple of God (his own self, body & soul) proclaiming that he is God (Christ come in the flesh in this particular woman, for example). Only God’s mercy in judgment can bring her and those like her now to a place of repentance. Only God’s judgments will bring her and all other blasphemers to the place when then they shall know that the LORD (Yahweh, Jehovah) is GOD!

The Unforgivable Sin