In the Yahweh In A Box article, ^[1] we looked at several ways that people try to limit how Yahweh can reach or teach them. In this article, we will look at some of the ways that Yahweh outside the box has reached me, and perhaps many others.

A long, long time ago in a “Galaxie” far, far away . . . well, on second thought, it was probably a Falcon, not a Galaxie, or perhaps a Fairlane, Mustang, or MG-B. Anyway, at least half a century or more ago, well before I had ever cracked open a Bible or any religious text, Yahweh was already outside the box in his efforts to wake me up.

The Rock and Roll Method

Rock and Roll has always been a favorite genre for me to listen to. And who would have thought that some of the best-known sixties and seventies rock and roll bands sang songs with a Biblical theme . . .

Revelation 21:4 – “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will no longer be any death; and there will no longer be any mourning, crying or pain; because the old order has passed away.”

One of the first songs that grabbed my attention was “Wayfaring Stranger” (1967), sung by H.P. Lovecraft, a psychedelic rock band that was a frequent performer at Bill Graham’s Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco from 1967 to the early 1970s. This song spoke of a bright land where there was no sickness, toil, nor danger. Sounds a bit like Revelation 21:4, doesn’t it?

Romans 6:23 – “…Eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from the Messiah Yeshua.”

Matthew 14:25 – “Yeshua came toward them, walking on the water!”

The next two tunes to grab my attention were sung by The Chambers Brothers, also performers at Bill Graham’s Fillmore Auditorium. “People Get Ready” (1966) spoke of a train one could board without any luggage or payment (Romans 6:23). Sounded like a fun ride to me. “Wade In The Water” (1969) speaks about God walking on the water (Matthew 14:25). Since water skiing was somewhat of a passion for me at the time, I thought how awesome if I could just walk to the boat after skipping across the waves as a result of flying off the ski at high speeds.

Seatrain, an American-roots fusion band, was formed in 1969 in Marin County, California. Tossed in the midst of their rock and roll hits was a song called “Book of Job” (1970). The tune grabbed me, and the words amazed me. One more huge Yahweh outside the box attempt to get me to change a few bad habits, no doubt.

Daniel 5:6 – “As frightening thoughts rose up within him, the joints of his loins were loosed.”

Several of us were flying high as a white bird (my shout out to “It’s A Beautiful Day”), again at a live concert somewhere in the heart of San Francisco, when on the stage appeared this apparition of a multicolored mask out of which came the gravelly voice of Arthur Brown singing, “I am the god of hellfire – and I bring you FIRE, I’ll take you to burn.” At the same time that the gravelly voice shouted FIRE, the mask went up in flames. Scared the pee-duncles out of all of us, or as the Bible puts it, loosed the joints of our loins (Daniel 5:6).

Before leaving rock and roll, there is one more song I will mention. As if to be blunt, Yahweh took the proverbial baseball bat and hit me upside my head with a song sung by the Doobie Brothers called “Jesus Is Just Alright” (1972).

The Impact of Music

Music can have a powerful impact on a person’s soul, spirit, and emotional state – either positive or negative. Well-played music with a Biblical message can be uplifting and positive. Poorly played music, though it may contain a Biblical message, can have the opposite effect and negatively affect a person’s soul, spirit, and emotional state.

Music, today, continues to be one of the primary ways Yahweh reaches and teaches me. “Wand’rin’ Star” from the movie Paint Your Wagon could be the theme song for my life! Tradition from the movie Fiddler on the Roof teaches me not to hold on too tightly to those traditions that are man-made, only to those established by Yahweh.

The Mountaintop Experience Method

Numbers 14:40 – “They arose early the next morning and came up to the top of the mountain.”

Revelation 21:10 – “Yahweh carried me to the top of a great, high mountain.”

Psalm 95:1 – “Come, let’s sing to Yahweh! Let’s shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation!”

There truly is no more amazing sight that shows the majesty and power of Yahweh than the view from the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado Springs. On the clearest days, you can see five states (Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Kansas) and even the curvature of the earth fading into the distance! ^[2] Rock climbing is a blast and reminds one to keep on striving to reach the goal for which Yeshua took hold of you. But there really is no greater rush than to rappel down a mountaintop cliff, taking large hops to make the descent even quicker. The dependence upon the ropes and belay person instantly reminds you that only by clinging tightly to Yeshua does one have salvation.

Various Other Methods

The Wind in My Hair Method

Psalm 147:18 – “Yahweh makes the winds blow, and the water flows.”

There is an exhilaration that can be experienced by boating fast and skiing fast – all of which I have experienced multiple times. And it always involves wind in the hair and flowing water, reminding me that Yahweh has created both wind and water.

The Flying Through the Clouds Method

Deuteronomy 33:26 – “There is no one like Yahweh, riding through the heavens on the clouds.”

Who doesn’t like to hop in an airplane and fly off to parts known and unknown? And if you just happen to throw in a barrel roll or a loop, so much the better. But nothing compares to flying through a cloud, reminding me of the true cloud rider – Yahweh.

The Fast-Driving Method

Psalm 71:18 – “So now that I’m old, and my hair is gray, don’t abandon me, Yahweh.”

Proverbs 20:29 – “The dignity of the old is gray hair.”

Psalm 119:116 – “Uphold me, as you promised; and I will live.”

Driving fast with the convertible top down, or pushing the motorcycle to the limit during a person’s younger years, is perhaps one of the reasons their hair turns gray, haha! But now, despite numerous high-speed drives which could have, and probably should have ended in crashes (or gray hair), I’m reminded that through it all, Yahweh upheld me and did not abandon me.

Conclusions

Revelation 19:4 – “And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.”

Yahweh has thousands of ways to bring awareness of himself, his majesty, and protection to a person. Music, wind in the hair, flying through the clouds, and gray hairs are just a few of the methods that he is able to employ if a person is willing to listen to the message within. There are many more. Praise him greatly that he will always be outside any box we try to put him in to limit his abilities. Perhaps you could sing alleluia along with the little band of “Glories.”

Final Thought

The prophetic signs are burgeoning and not abating. Time is incredibly short – Yeshua Ha’Mashiach is coming soon – so be of great cheer, keep looking up, keep maintaining an attitude of gratitude, and let Yahweh stay outside the box and reach you. Be sure you are believing The Truth, not The Lie. Be sure Yeshua is your Redeemer, King, and High Priest, and your sins are forgiven.

Links

[1] https://www.raptureready.com/2021/05/25/yahweh-in-a-box-by-jeff-van-hatten/

[2] https://www.pikes-peak.com/attractions/pikes-peak-americas-mountain/

The Songs

If you’d like to take a listen to the songs mentioned above, here’s some YouTube links:

Wayfaring Stranger Studio Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsfPkfHKwxE

People Get Ready Live Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L82_N3UPPDs

Wade In The Water Live Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HakRXIyq_M

Book of Job Studio Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJNT_xzDMA

Fire (1968) Live Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GCSWEgZT94

Jesus is Just Alright Studio Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEvy8mROAj0

The Glories by Ishmael United: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek5D8IuB57U

Website: https://raptureparty.net/

Email: jeff@raptureparty.net

Jewish Tribulation – Israel is the Key

Before I begin this next letter, let me take a moment to explain something to you, Dear Reader. As you progress through this series, you will notice that some of the information from one letter will be stated again in some way in successive letters. I am writing this series of chronicles in this manner on purpose.

First of all, every bit of information contained within these missives is vital for you to know. If you (or anyone else) are not familiar with the Bible or with biblical prophecy (as you are most likely not since you were left behind), then re-reading the truths contained within each letter will help solidify these truths in your heart.

Second and most importantly, though, the main reason that these letters will carry some redundancies is this: although the entire series has been written to be read as a cohesive whole, it is entirely possible, even probable, that the entire series may not be available to you. In fact, it’s likely that only some portions of this series of letters may be available at any given time because of the great upheavals that will be occurring. Therefore, I have deliberately chosen to put as much pertinent information as possible into each individual letter just in case the entire series is unavailable for any reason. I want each letter to contain as much information as possible for just this reason.

If you are able, try to keep the entire series together (I strongly urge you to print them out in hard copy or put them onto flash drives if you have the ability to do so) as I have attempted to write this series in chronological order of coming events. However, if having the entire series together is not feasible for any reason, perhaps there will be enough information and Bible passages given in each individual letter to give you a starting point so that you can readily know where in the Bible to look for what you will most certainly need to know.

With that said, in the previous chronicle, I did my best to try to explain to you just how perilous things will be here on Earth after the great vanishing will have occurred – that is after the Church will have been taken out in what is most assuredly the rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ.

Remember I told you that, according to the scriptures, this period of time – the last seven years of human history under fallen creation – will be divided into two halves: the first 3 ½ years, and the last 3 ½ years, with the ending of those last years culminating in the literal, physical return to Earth of Jesus Christ, who will be returning as the conquering King of Creation.

Upon His physical return to Earth, Lord Jesus will do several things:

(1) He will rescue the remnant of the Jewish people (one third of them will finally believe in Jesus Christ as their true Messiah, and will be kept alive throughout these seven years (Zechariah 13:8-9). ALL – every single one of these one-third believing Jewish remnant will have finally come to recognize Jesus Christ as having been their true Messiah all along. At that time, the now-believing remnant of Jews will cry out to their Messiah Jesus to rescue them. Their Messiah King will hear their cry and will respond to rescue, save and preserve them from annihilation.

Sadly, two thirds of the remaining Jews will continue to refuse and reject their true Messiah and will die as a result of their continued rebellion. At the midpoint of these last seven years, the believing remnant of Jews will be hidden away, most probably in the ancient rock city of Petra in Jordan, somewhere near Bozrah (Isaiah 63; Revelation 19:11-16). There they will be protected until Jesus returns to physically rescue them.

(2) At His return, King Jesus will utterly destroy the armies of the Antichrist and all others who have rebelled against Him (Revelation 19:17-21).

(3) At the time of His return, King Jesus will send His holy angels out into the world to gather and bring to Jerusalem, from all over the earth, the relatively few living people left (both Jew and Gentile), who will have managed to survive to the end of the Tribulation. There in Jerusalem, the conquering King of Glory will separate all those who remain alive – the believers from the unbelievers.

Those who are believers – those left alive from among the Gentile nations who remained faithful to Christ will not have taken the “mark of the Beast.” They will aid and protect any Jewish person – particularly one of the 144,000 Jewish young men who were sealed by God to act as His missionaries during this time (whom Jesus called “My (His) brethren”). These Gentiles will demonstrate their love and devotion to Christ by protecting, preserving, and defending the Jews, and (along with the surviving one third of the now-believing Jews) will be allowed to enter into Christ’s new earthly Kingdom alive and in their mortal bodies (Matthew 24-25).

All those left alive who rebelled against Christ by accepting, worshiping, and following the Antichrist – all those who accepted the Antichrist’s “mark” – these lost, marked, rebellious ones will be judged and cast immediately into Sheol/Hades to await their final judgment at the Great White Throne, after which they will all be consigned for all eternity to the Lake which forever burns with fire.

This separating out of believers from unbelievers is what is referred to in Matthew chapters 24 – 25 as the judgment of the “sheep” and the “goats.” This judgment is not, I repeat, not a judgment of the Church at all since the Church will have already been in Heaven with Christ before the Tribulation began and will have already returned with Him when He returns to put an end to this final seven years. No, this judgment is rather the separating out of all Tribulation survivors, the believers from the unbelievers, in preparation for entering Christ’s Millennial Kingdom.

This “sheep and goat” judgment takes place on Earth just prior to the beginning of the Kingdom Age. Only redeemed believers in Christ, both Jew and Gentile, will be allowed to enter the earthly Kingdom of the Lord, King Jesus.

This believing remnant of humanity (consisting of both believing Jews and Gentiles) will enter the Kingdom still in their mortal bodies along with those who are also now immortals, which includes the glorified Church, all of the Old Testament Saints (such as Abraham, Daniel, David, Moses, etc.) and all Tribulation Saints who died during the Tribulation, both sets of whom will have by then received their Immortal and glorified bodies just like the Church-Age Saints. Thus, the Kingdom will begin with both mortals and immortals as inhabitants of Jesus’ new Kingdom on Earth.

(4) He will renovate and restore the earth to its original, pristine condition, just as it was in Eden before the fall of man.

(5) He will establish His Kingdom on Earth where He will rule as absolute Monarch from His throne that He will establish in Jerusalem, Israel. This earthly Kingdom will last for 1,000 literal years, after which He will create an entirely new heavens and Earth. He will then abolish Time itself, change every living, believing mortal at the end of the Kingdom Age from mortal to immortal, and every believer of every age will forever after exist in immortal, glorified bodies in eternity – in what will be an “eternal now” with God forever.

But before Jesus returns, He will bring judgment upon this wicked world. He will use these last seven years to exact vengeance and holy justice upon all wicked and sinful mankind, who have shaken their collective fist in His face and who have embraced and reveled in their rebellion, debauchery, and sin. In essence, what Jesus Christ will do is cleanse Earth and restore Paradise lost.

As I told you before, the first 3 ½ years will be cataclysmic. One quarter (1/4) of Earth’s inhabitants will die from what in essence will be WWIII and all that ensues from it, along with unprecedented natural disasters both terrestrial and celestial in nature.

The aftermath of that will be famine on a global scale; rampant, pandemic diseases and pestilences will kill millions upon millions; animals on the brink of starvation will turn on humanity; and violence, treachery, and murder will become the norm.

This final seven-year period will begin benignly enough with the “confirmation of a covenant” made between a charismatic global leader and Israel. (Read the Old Testament book of Daniel, chapter 9, to learn about these last seven years).

The confirmation of this covenant will be the starting point of these last seven years of human history as we know it. Also, remember that I told you to watch closely the movements of a coalition (which is actually forming and strengthening as I am revising this series now in late autumn of 2017) involving Russia, Iran and Turkey as the principal leading forces, called in the Bible by their ancient names of Magog, Persia and Togarmah. This coalition of nations, along with others such as Libya and Sudan, will attack Israel; but it will be God Himself who will intervene on Israel’s behalf and save her from what would otherwise be certain annihilation.

As I am writing this, the precise timing of this attack is still being debated among Bible students. Most Bible students (including this writer) believe that this concerted attack upon Israel will most likely occur either just after the rapture or possibly simultaneously with it and will likely be the first thing that will happen post-rapture. You, of course, will know precisely.

Look for this coming covenant to come about as a result of this battle waged on the mountains of Israel. The Old Testament book of Ezekiel, chapters 38 & 39, recounts this battle using the ancient names for these modern countries. For example: Magog/Rosh is Russia, Persia is Iran, Togarmah is Turkey, etc.

What you need to know is this: the tiny nation of Israel is the key to everything. It is through this final seven years of this fallen world order that God is working to prepare the land of Israel and a remnant of the Jewish people in order to fulfill to them the remainder of the covenant that He made with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their posterity (see Genesis 15:18; Daniel 9).

Watch the tiny nation of Israel very closely. Not long after the covenant between Israel and the other nations is confirmed, there will be two mysterious men who will arrive in Jerusalem from seemingly nowhere. As I write this pre-rapture, I cannot be certain of their identities; however, there is a greater than good chance that one of them will be the Old Testament Prophet Elijah, and the other possibly the Old Testament Prophet Moses, whom God will have returned to life and to Earth for just this purpose (if indeed they are ever identified at all). At the time of this writing, it is impossible for us to know who they will be. You will be able to recognize them, though.

Whoever they are, and whatever their names turn out to be, they will be very easily identified because they will be two emissaries from God. They will be strong men with great supernatural power given to them directly from God. Their mission will be to open the eyes of Israel regarding Israel’s true Messiah, Jesus Christ, whom Israel collectively has continually rejected (Revelation chapter 11).

It is through the ministry of these two emissaries of God that God will save, seal, and eventually send out into the world 144,000 young, Jewish male virgins – 12,000 from the descendants of each of Israel’s twelve ancient tribes.

These young men will be saved, called and sealed by God. They will be witnesses to Israel and will also be sent forth into every nation on Earth to preach the gospel of salvation and the soon-coming Kingdom.

The result of those saved because of their ministry will be incalculable. They will reap the greatest harvest of souls saved that will have ever been in history. They will fulfill Christ’s “Great Commission” to “go into all the world and preach the gospel.” Their salvation and calling will come as a direct result of the preaching and prophesying of these two mysteriously powerful “witnesses” of God. You can read about these 144,000Jewish evangelists in Revelation chapters 7 & 14.

These two men (the two witnesses) will be bold, unrelenting, powerful and utterly unstoppable for the first 3 ½ years. The man, who is the Antichrist, will hate them with a supernatural hatred, and they will be a thorn in his side for the entire first half of this seven-year period. As a direct result of their ministry, MANY, MANY Jews will finally come to believe in and accept Jesus as their Messiah and Savior. These two men, as I said, will have supernatural powers and will be able to call down fire from Heaven on anyone who tries to do them harm. They will be supernaturally protected by God for the first 3 ½ years.

At the very midpoint of these last seven years, God will allow these two men to be killed. Their dead bodies will not be buried but will lie in the streets of Jerusalem, where ALL of the unsaved people will be able to view their dead bodies. The world will actually party over their deaths. This partying will go on for 3 ½ days when God will suddenly raise these two men back to life in full view of the entire world via satellite TV, the Internet, YouTube, etc., or by cell phones. Three and one-half days after they are killed, God will resurrect their bodies and take them up into Heaven in full view of the world as further testimony to God’s power, authenticating that God is indeed in full control of everything.

At the midpoint of these seven years, events from this point on will get far worse than is even possible to fully describe. You will now be entering the period Jesus Himself referred to as “Great Tribulation.”

As horrific as the first half has been, this last half will be exponentially, exceedingly worse. There will be torment, death, and cataclysmic judgment unleashed on an unimaginable scale. If you will have somehow survived thus far, your odds of survival to the end will drop to almost nil. If you become a believer, you will be ruthlessly hunted down, and your survival will be even less likely.

As I keep telling you, the chances that you will live to the end are extremely small, and if you should physically survive but have still refused salvation – that is, if you take the Antichrist’s “mark” in your right hand or in your forehead – then you will absolutely and certainly be cast into Hell anyway. For to take that mark (whatever it turns out to be) will seal your fate in Hell for all eternity.

You are entering a time unprecedented in human history. Supernatural occurrences and events will become the norm from now on. You will see and witness things that no one in history has ever seen. Do not forget that during just the first half of these last seven years, these things will happen in rapid succession:

(1) A powerful global leader who will be the Antichrist (although he will at first seem like a savior) will use peace as his rallying cry, and by peace will destroy many.

(2) War on a global scale will break out, which will most likely involve multiple nuclear events.

(3) Global famine will ensue as a result of this war. Murder, violence, diseases, and pestilence will increase exponentially. (Read the New Testament book of Revelation, chapter 6 up through the opening of the 5th seal to find out what will happen during this first 3 ½ years after the signing of the covenant).

Again, I urge you, come to Christ while you still can. You have no guarantee that you will survive the next seven minutes, let alone the next seven years.

Keep reading, for you need to know what is to come in the last half of these years if you should be granted the chance to live through them.

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