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Going to a Wedding Soon! :: By Dennis Huebshman

Published on: by RR10

In ancient Jewish wedding customs, the groom’s father would choose a bride for his son. If the bride’s father agreed, terms of payment would be agreed upon. This was called the “bride’s price,” and the groom’s father was basically buying her for his son. Once any agreement was made and the price paid, the bride and groom would sign a contract or covenant called a “Ketubah.” Then they would drink wine as a symbolic sealing of the marriage contract. (ESP – all emphasis mine)

At this time, the couple was “betrothed” and actually considered to be married. However, before they could consummate the marriage, the groom would return to his father’s house to build an addition onto it. He would work until the father would give him permission to go and get his bride. The bride had no idea of the day or hour that the groom would call for her, so she had to be ready at all times. Many times, the groom would arrive in the middle of the night, and sometimes it would be to the sound of horns and shouting from a crowd of people that would follow him. It was a very wonderful, joyous occasion.

The groom would take his bride back to his father’s house, to the place he had prepared for them to live in, and they would have a great feast lasting sometimes up to seven days. At this point, they would officially begin their married life.

If all this sounds familiar, our Savior is our Bridegroom, and the Church – not any building or particular religion, but all true believers who have received and accepted Jesus as their Savior – is the Bride of Christ.

It is said that at the last supper when Jesus shared the wine with His disciples, He told them He would not drink of it again until He would drink it in His Father’s kingdom (Matthew 26:29, Mark 14:25, and Luke 22:18).

In John 14:2-3, Jesus said, “In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, that where I am, you may be also.”

Jesus made it clear that He was not just here for His disciples or only for God’s chosen people, the Jews. John 10 is a chapter with a wealth of information that totally applies today. For example, in verse 9, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” Then verses 14-16, “I am the Good Shepherd. I know My own, and My own know me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. So there will be one flock, one Shepherd.”

Jesus paid the “bride’s price” with His own blood. He makes it very clear that this was His decision, and He freely made the commitment in verse 18, “No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

One note here: I am very humbled and totally thankful to our Lord and Savior that He went through the agony of a most terrible death for me. As a line from the song “At the Cross” states, “Alas, and did My Savior bleed, and did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?” (Isaac Watts 1707)

As for the day and hour that Jesus will return for His bride, Matthew 24:36, Mark 13:32, 2 Peter 3:10, and Acts 1:7 all state it’s not for us to know. However, there are signs given by Jesus, Paul, John, Peter, and many others that tell us what will be happening near the end of this age. We are told to be ready for whenever He comes. All the signs are here right now and for the first time ever, all at once.

Does this mean we are to live a perfect, sinless life once we ask Jesus to be our Savior? It would be wonderful if we could; however, Our Heavenly Father knows our weaknesses and that we will be sinners as long as we’re in these human bodies. Romans 3:10 says, “as it is written, none is righteous, no not one.” Then Romans 3:23, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” He does provide us a pure pathway to forgiveness when we do sin, in 1 John 1:8-10. Without God’s forgiveness, how can we even expect to be worthy to be taken Home by our Savior? Paul tells us in Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ, our Lord.”

Until the Bridegroom comes for us, and we are taken up to meet Him in the air at the Rapture, we will be in perishable, human, sin-filled bodies. At the moment we are taken up, right after the dead in Christ are raised imperishable, we will all be changed into forever, immortal bodies, and with the mindset of our Savior (1 Corinthians 15:51-53 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17).

There are numerous verses throughout the Old and New Testaments that tell us about our coming “wedding” with our Most Holy Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. The most important part is for us to follow Romans 10:9-13 and call out to be saved. At that time, we are “betrothed.” What we will be listening for is the Trumpet of God and a shout of an archangel, and having the “Wedding Music” in our hearts.

Kirk Talley and Phil Cross wrote a song around 1993 called “Is That Wedding Music I Hear?” It’s a very “right-now” song, and we could be hearing it very soon.

(ref) Is that Wedding Music I Hear? The bride’s adorned and ready to appear. There’s Heavenly preparation for the Wedding Celebration; Is that Wedding Music That I Hear?

1.) The family is preparing for a wedding; all of them invited to attend. The bride is standing ready, waiting for the signal, when the Groom says Christ My Children, come on in. (ref)

2.) Soon we’ll rise to leave this land of sorrow for that ceremony in the air. The Father then will lead us through the Holy Land of splendor; have you made your preparation to go there?

(ref) There’s Heavenly preparation For the Wedding Celebration; Is That Wedding Music? Oh, is that Wedding Music I hear?

Romans 5:8 tells us, “but God shows His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

“Jesus paid it all; all to Him I owe; sin had left a crimson stain; He washed it white as snow.” – (Elvina M. Hall 1805)

On the other side, all who reject the Bridegroom will not spend eternity in Heaven with Him. They will have a permanent, eternal residence in the total darkness of the lake of fire called hell. There is no third option, as many false prophets are saying today. Anyone who ends up there will have chosen it, as the Father will not force anyone one way or the other.

Choose life; choose the most wonderful Bridegroom we could ever have; choose My Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. Hope to see you at the Wedding.

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Seven-Year Proposal and Prophetic Portent :: By Terry James

Published on: by RR10

Things aren’t moving quickly enough to suit the globalist elite, would-be masters of the earth. Agenda 21 and Agenda 30 and their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) must be put on a fast track. That ambition is delineated briefly in the following declaration from within the globalist cabal.

Making the SDG Summit a turning point

The SDG Summit in September 2023 must signal a genuine turning point. It must mobilize the political commitment and breakthroughs our world desperately needs. It must deliver a rescue plan for people and planet.

At the center of this rescue plan, Heads of State and Government must recommit to seven years of accelerated, sustained, and transformative action, both nationally and internationally, to deliver on the promise of the SDGs. Leaders can show their resolve by adopting an ambitious and forward-looking political declaration at the SDG Summit and presenting global and national commitments for SDG transformation.

Delivering change at the speed and scale required to achieve the SDGs by 2030 will demand that political leaders make bold decisions to match their ambitions. – Source: [We Need 7 Years of Accelerated, Transformative Action to Achieve SDGs, IISD SDG Knowledge Hub, June 13, 2023]

It has been, the powers that be surmised with worry on their brow, eight years since the international community agreed to take bold and transformative steps to achieve the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.

This lofty aim involves a plan of action to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet, according to the document expressing their concern that things have fallen behind their initial timeline.

The SDG brief documenting their near-panic states further.

Promises in peril

A recently released report by the secretary-general on ‘progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals’ draws on the latest data to sound the alarm for action. Of the roughly 140 targets with data, only about 12% are on track to be achieved by 2030; and some 30% have either seen no movement or progressed below the 2030 baseline.

Giving up on the SDG or extending the deadline is not an option. The world has been rocked by a series of interlocked crises…

Recommitting to the 2030 Agenda is the best roadmap out of these crises, but we are fast running out of time. ***[Ibid]***

To the observer of Bible prophecy yet future from the preTrib view makes one ask: what is generating the worry, thus the hurry?

I, personally, question in moments of reflecting on such concern whether someone at or near the top of the globalist Ephesians 6:12 cabal is receiving from the principality above their pay grade a prompting to get the Agenda 30SDG in order.

We are 7 years from that 2030 Agenda 2030 supposed implementation. The powers and principalities with the blueprint to get all this accomplished must, they are told, recommit to seven years of accelerated, sustained, and transformative action.

All of this seven-years talk smacks of the instrument of pseudo-peace that portends ominous things for inhabitants of Planet Earth, as we know.

A man possessing solutions to the crises will soon emerge. He will offer a plan of peace that the World Economic Forum leader-types will wholeheartedly embrace. Israel will, upon this false peacemaker’s appearance, sign on to the covenant of peace as foretold in Daniel 9:26. It will be a covenant made with death and hell, according to God’s Word through the Prophet Isaiah.

“Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves…. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it” (Isa 28:15, 18).

There is coming out of the soon-to-be united Europe a leader who will go “forth conquering, and to conquer” (Rev. 6:2). “There was given unto him a mouth speaking great things…” (Rev. 13:5).

This mightiest leader ever will come riding the white horse of peacemaker and will confirm the covenant with many for one week. Translation: This leader from a Europe united in a configuration equivalent to the Europe of the Roman Empire days – a revived Roman Empire, a neo-Roman order of sorts – will make or confirm a covenant treaty already constructed, to which Israel will be a major signatory.

The pact will be for seven years, one year equaling one day of the seven-day week indicated in the Scriptures. The “conquering” by the leader at this point in time is likely to be in the realm of diplomacy. Undoubtedly, he will offer brilliant initiatives, magnified in their allurement by a charismatic, personal charm that convinces Jew and Arab alike to trust him as a friend of all. As the guarantor of peace not just for that region but for a global peace upon which can be built a New World order and a new age of prosperity, he will succeed where others have failed. His promises will be sweet to the ears of a world ravenous for such lies. And lies they will be.

Jesus said it will bring about the worst time of all human history (Matthew 24: 21).

With all the other signals manifesting at this time, the talk of a 7-year plan by the leaders who propose a new world order is a most significant marker of where this generation is poised on God’s Prophetic Timeline.

Jesus Himself promised that His people –the Church—will be kept from the time of those 7 years of hell on earth of which Isaiah forewarned.

“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Rev. 3:10).

You don’t want to be on earth when those 7 years of Judgment and Wrath fall on the God-rejecting earth dwellers. Accepting Jesus Christ is the only way to be removed to the safety Christ offers.

Every signal is pulsing in the spirit of those observing the prophetic times; Jesus is about to call all believers to Himself in that Glorious Moment of Rapture!

Here is how to make sure you are in God’s Family for eternity, so you will not go through the 7 years of earth’s most horrific time.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).