The Door is About to Close
The Rapture of the true Church, the bride of Christ is Imminent, meaning it can happen any day at any moment. Those who are not saved will find this happens like a thief in the night, not expecting it and being taken by surprise. Those who are waiting know that it comes and are looking up and waiting.
My dear Pastor and Brother in Christ, Pastor Riley presents in the teaching below compelling signs to watch for coming up here in in April 2014. Pastor Riley does not say he's a prophet or God gave him a date, but rather he shows proven signs that are happening right before our face and is pleading with the lost to get saved now as well as encouraging the saved to look up for our redemption draws nigh.
Jesus is coming, Time has run out. Please if you don't know Jesus as your Savior ask him now by repenting of your sins and asking him to save you.
M A R A N A T H A
The
Open Door
Is
about to Close…..
By
Pastor F. M. Riley
April 4, 2014
“I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee [out in front of you; in your future] an
open door [a door having been
opened], and no man can shut it: for
thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My word, and hast not defiled My
name,” Revelation 3:8. KJV & Greek text
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened
[having been opened] in heaven: and the first voice
which I heard [the voice which I
head at the first…Revelation 1:10-16] was as it were a trumpet talking with me;
which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter
[after these things of the church
age], Revelation 4:1. KJV & Greek text
Introduction
The Lord Jesus
Christ has much to say about the “door” in His inspired Word. Finally, these many references to the “door”
in the prophetic Scriptures have all come together in a
harmonious sequence. And that sequence
is the subject matter of this study. Join us for an enlightening study…..
Christ
and the Open Doors
That these “doors” have to do with the fulfillment of end-time prophecy in
relation to the nation and people of Israel, and the coming of Christ is made
clear by the statement of the Lord Himself in The Parable of The Fig Tree in Matthew 24:32-35. In 24:33 the Lord explicitly
stated, “So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that
it is near, even at the doors.” Notice
that in this passage the Lord explicitly said “doors” [plural].
He did not say “door” [singular]. This is because
there are two phases to the return of Christ, whether some want to
believe it or not. In returning back to
mankind, Christ will first come “in the air” for His New
Covenant Gentile church bride and people, then seven years later He will come
back to the earth visibly and bodily with all of His redeemed “saints”
to destroy His enemies and establish His Millennial Kingdom upon the earth, 1
Thessalonians 4:13-18; Zechariah 14:5; 1 Thessalonians 3:13. This means that the “doors”
of Heaven are going to be opened twice, once at the time of the
resurrection and rapture, and then again seven years later when Christ bodily
and visibly returns at the end of the Tribulation, Revelation 19:11-21. This is not hard to see or understand if those
who “profess” to be Christians would just receive God’s Word at face value for
what it actually and literally says, rather than refusing to believe it and
attempting to explain it away or outright deny it.
When was
the Door Opened…..?
In the letter to
the church at Philadelphia, the Lord explicitly told His church that He would
set out in front of them [Greek text]
“a
door, having been opened,” Revelation 3:8.
It is not just “coincidence” that the letter to the church at
Philadelphia correlates with that period of time in this present church age
from approximately 1750 to 1948. This
was the greatest period of evangelism, missionary activity, and teaching the Word of
God to mankind which had occurred in church history since the Apostolic
period.
It was no “coincidence” that during this time of intense Bible study and
teaching of the Word, the teaching of the Pre-tribulation rapture of God’s
people came to the forefront again among the churches
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and the ranks of Christianty. Those today who claim that it was “invented”
during this period of time obviously don’t know much about Christian history,
for the Pre-tribulation rapture was not only taught by Paul and John, but such
early “church fathers” as Hippolytus were teaching it in the 4th
century of Christianity. There has never been a time in Christian history when
there were not at least a few believers teaching the Pre-tribulation
rapture. Hello!
When was the “door” Christ spoke of in the Philadelphian church letter
actually and literally opened? To find the answer to this question we need to
remember what the Lord said about His coming [parousia] in the end time being exactly like it was “in
the days of Noah,” Luke 17:26-27. So
what happened in the days of Noah?
In Genesis 6:1-2 is recorded the sin of “the sons of God” [wicked angels] in cohabiting with women
and producing a race of beings [nephilim]
who were not true humans. If any reader
desires more insight into this, I will be glad to send my Bible study entitled There were Giants in the Earth upon receiving
your request. It was this specific act which appears to have moved the Lord God
to establish a limit to the “days” of mankind upon the earth in
the very next Scripture, “And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not
always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a
hundred and twenty years,” Genesis 6:3.
So at the exact time that the fallen angels began
interfering with the DNA of the human race, the Lord God gave what is commonly
referred to as the 120 year warning which preceded the flood in “the
days of Noah.”
At that point, or shortly thereafter, during this 120 year period the
Lord God spoke to Noah, warning him, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the
earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;
for it repenteth Me that I have made them.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord,” Genesis
6:7-8.
Upon receiving that warning of coming destruction,
Noah began to preach the Lord’s warning to mankind, and to “prepare an ark to the saving of
his house,” condemning the wickedness of the world, and becoming “heir
of the righteousness which is by faith,” Hebrews 11:7; 2 Peter 2:5. I would emphasize that the ark which
Noah prepared had only one “door,” Genesis 6:16.
Keep in mind that all that mankind had to do to was
believe Noah’s message, repent, and receive the Lord God whom Noah preached in
order to escape the impending destruction.
But they refused to believe what Noah was preaching! Nevertheless right on schedule,
exactly in the 120th year, just as the Lord had said, the flood
came, Noah and his family went into the ark, “and the Lord shut him in,”
Genesis 7:16. In other words,
the Lord God shut “the door.”
Again, I remind our readers that the Lord God explicitly stated, “And
as it was in the days of Noah,
so shall it be in the days of the Son of
man,” Luke 17:20-21.
Now let’s move forward in human history to the exact time in
human history when the Lord God began the process of regathering the scattered
Jewish people out from among the nations of the world, and stirring their
hearts to have a land and home of their own again. That exact year was 1897.
It was in 1897 that Theodor Herzl convened the First Jewish
Congress which met in Basle, Switzerland for the express purpose of searching
out a national homeland for the Jewish people.
The Jewish people had been scattered into all the nations of the world
since 70 A.D., and yet had managed to survive as a people throughout those 1,827
years. But they had never forgotten that
they were once a great people with a great nation and a great king (David).
After all of those years, individually and as a people, they were
longing to “go home.” At that First
Jewish Congress the Zionist Movement was born, with the stated purpose of finding
a national homeland for the Jewish people and re-establishing their nation
among the nations of the world. 1897
was a most important year, for I am personally convinced that it marked the
“beginning of the end” of this present dispensation and age, and therefore the
time when “the door” was opened.
Right here I would like to inject a historical fact that many of God’s
people are not even aware occurred.
Precisely in 1897 was the first sighting of a UFO in modern
history. This occurred in Aurora, Texas in April of 1897 when a space
ship of some kind crashed into a windmill during a windstorm. This was six years before the Wright
brothers invented the airplane. Yet there it was, seen by many eye witnesses at
the time, flying through the sky over Aurora, Texas and reported on in the
newspapers of that time. It is my conviction that at the same time the Lord God
made a move to
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resurrect and restore the nation and
people of Israel, the fallen angels began their end-time work of attempting to
infect the DNA of humanity again. Yes, I
do believe that these UFO’s we hear about, for the most part, that have been
showing up in the skies particularly since Israel became a nation again
are demonic craft piloted by fallen angels, demons, and nephilim.
Remember that 1947 was the year that the U.N. voted to partition the
holy land into two separate states, one for the Jews and the other for the
Arabs. This vote in August of 1947 [exactly 50 years to the day after the First
Jewish Congress in August of 1897] directly led to the re-establishment of
Israel as a nation the following year in May of 1948. Again, just “coincidence?” Are our readers aware that there is no word
for “coincidence” in the Hebrew language? None!
To
emphasize the importance of 1897 I want our readers to know how it fits into
the pattern of end-time Bible prophecy, and the closing of “the door.”. I have already pointed out that in “the
days of Noah” a 120 year warning was given. Go back and read it again in Genesis
6:3. The Lord emphatically
stated in that passage that man’s days, because that the whole of mankind upon
the earth, was almost totally given over
to rebellion and wickedness against God, would be only 120 years. It is glaringly obvious that at the exact end
of that 120 years the flood came on the earth wiping out all living things
except those in the ark. That ark
then was literally the “ark of safety.”
When
will the Door Close?.....
Now if we apply this same truth to mankind living today upon the earth,
what do we find? Don’t miss this! Read it over if you have to, but let it soak
in. It is exactly 120 years from
1897 to 2017. Hello! 2017 is the year that marks the
middle of the Tribulation period.
The middle of the Tribulation period begins “the hour of His [God’s] judgment,” Revelation 14:6-7. The “hour of His judgment” refers to the last half of the Tribulation
period, when all wicked, God hating, Christ rejecting humanity will be
destroyed from off the face of the earth, exactly as all wicked, God hating, Christ rejecting humanity was destroyed in “the days of Noah.” See my study entitled The Two Hours. It will be sent to any reader upon
request. This is significant enough,…..
But let’s narrow this down even further.
From the day of “firstfruits,” April 20, 2014
to “Yom
Kippur, the Great Day of Atonement,” September 30, 2017 is exactly 1,260 days, the exact number of
days in the first half of the Tribulation period. This day of atonement on the
Jewish calendar will be the weekly Sabbath Day, Tishri 10, 5777 or
September 30, 2017. Coincidence?
Sure, when donkeys start flying, strumming banjos and braying Yankee
Doodle Dandy! Count the days for
yourself! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
What this indicates is that the Day of Atonement, September 30, 2017 is
the exact middle of the Tribulation period on earth. Now just back up 1,260
days from Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in 2017, and see if this gives our
readers any idea of when the resurrection and rapture is going to occur this
year? When the resurrection and
rapture occurs, “the door” to be raptured and escape the terrible Tribulation
period will swing “shut” for every living person on earth who has refused to
believe the multiplicity of warnings given by all “preachers of righteousness” today,
just as “the door” was “shut” in “the days of Noah.” Are you listening?
More
“Coincidences?”
This year,
Easter, April 20, 2014, the day the religious world has set aside to observe
the resurrection of Christ Jesus, perfectly coincides with “firstfruits” on the
calendar God gave to Israel in Exodus 12.
What I am saying plainly, is that April 20, 2014 is “the
morrow after the Sabbath” following Passover, Leviticus 23:9-11. It is therefore the exact same day
Jesus Christ was resurrected from among the dead in 30 A.D. Now is it just “coincidence” that Easter and “firstfruits”
fall on the exact same day this year?
Amazing enough?
Well let me add to this information.
This year the Gregorian calendar used by we Gentiles today, the calendar
used by the Greek Orthodox Eastern Catholic religion, and the Jewish calendar
which God gave to Israel in Exodus 12, all correlate together
in perfect harmony exactly on April 20th, 2014, Abib
3
20, 5774, the exact day Christ rose from the dead in
30 A.D.. Glory to God! Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord!
But let’s not stop here! It is
now well known and documented that April 15, 2014, the day the modern religious
Jews observe Passover, is also the first in a series of “blood moons.” In other words, a total lunar eclipse will
occur that day, causing the Moon to appear as blood
red. Now read the inspired prophecy of Acts
2:19-20. Well…???
What
does all of this mean?
I would have to be a “close minded” religionist, if I said that all of
these things coming together in perfect harmony this very month, in
fact, in just another 16 days, are just “coincidence” and that nothing
of any prophetic significance is going to occur. There likely are some who will read this who
qualify as “close minded” religionists, but I am not one of them! I believe God’s Word, and by the grace of God
I have spiritual discernment, so that I can discern the hand of God moving in
human events to fulfill His Word and bring this present dispensation and age to
a close.
Back
to the “Door”
A few weeks ago I wrote and posted a Bible study entitled “After.” In that study I pointed out that it
is “After”
the church age has ended in Revelation 3:22, that we see John in
Revelation
4:1 saying that he saw “a door was opened in heaven…” [having been opened…Greek text], and John
then hears the Lord say to him, “Come up hither.” This is obviously
a foreshadowing of the rapture of God’s people. The rapture then occurs in a
brief transition period immediately following the end of the
church age, and before the Lord God in Heaven begins to open the seven
seals on “the little book,” Revelation 5:1-5; 6:1.
Wake up dear readers. We are living in that transition period right
now as I write. The church age, I am
personally convinced, ended on March 31, 2014 with the last day of
Adar on the Jewish calendar which the Lord God Himself gave to Israel. A brand new year began with Abib [Nisan] 1 on April 1st. Oh yes, it is also highly significant that
the month of April this year correlates exactly day by day with the
calendar month in which Christ was crucified in 30 A.D. Another “coincidence?” Not hardly!
Those readers who cannot see the hand of God in all of these things
coming together this month likely need to receive Christ for real
as their own personal Savior. It is so much later than many today want to
believe!
Conclusion
Folks, following the rapture, as foreshadowed by John in Revelation
4:1, the “door” to Heaven will be shut, just as the “door”
to the ark was shut in “the days of Noah.” Any reader of this Bible study who
hasn’t received Christ on or before the Jewish holy day of “firstfruits,” April 20,
2014, will likely miss the rapture and be left right here on earth to enter
into and face the terrible Tribulation period. Remember that Christ is the ONE
who “openeth,
and no man shutteth,” but Christ is also the ONE “that shutteth, and no man
openeth,” Revelation 3:7. It
will not do a bit of good for a person who misses the rapture to cry out to the
Lord to “open unto us.” It did
no good for the people in “the
days of Noah” to beat on the door of the ark and cry out to Noah to
open the door. Read this truth for
yourself in Luke 13:24-27.
The Lord God has warned all humanity to “Watch
ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape
all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man,”
Luke 21:36. You have possibly 15
days [or perhaps even less...???] to
receive Christ as your own personal Savior, or “the door” of Heaven will
slam shut, and you will be left here on earth to go into the terrible
Tribulation period. Is that what you
really want? If not, then you better get
serious about seeking and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal
Savior right now in the few days that you may have left. How?
Get on your knees and face before God, and cry out to Him in earnest,
sincere prayer until the answer comes.
But what if He doesn’t immediately answer? Then just
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stay with it for the long haul until you
receive the answer.
I have a sister in Christ, now deceased and in Heaven with the Lord, who
told me how that under deep conviction she sought the Lord for months, not
really knowing how to seek Him. Finally,
under deep conviction one night she simply cried out in prayer, Lord, I believe that you died for me, and
paid for my sin at Calvary, yet I don’t know what I have to do to receive you
as my Savior. If I die in my lost,
sinful condition, I will go to hell trusting you.” She related to me that at that instant,
when she had come to the end of her own resources, the Lord graciously saved
her. Dear reader, He will do the same
for you.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth
not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him,” John
3:36. Read John
3:3-8, 3:16, 5:24, 14:6, Acts 4:12, 16:30-31, Romans 10:8-13, Ephesians 2:8-10,
and Titus 3:5.
Whether some want to believe it or not, the
Pre-tribulation rapture will occur…..
And the Door will Close!
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Permission is granted to any true
believer or Bible believing Christian ministry to reproduce this study
to share with others, or to quote from
it in context as written.
NOTICE….The past two days we have had terrible storms in central
Missouri with lightning, hail, high winds, tornadoes, and massive amounts of
rain resulting in flooding. Those
readers who have attempted to call me need to know that my phone was knocked
out and is still out as I write. I hope
to have it working again in another day or two, but just know why I haven’t
been able to answer the phone. I am
physically okay, and thank each one who has tried to contact me and are praying
for me.
Please address all comments, questions, and correspondence to: Pastor
F. M. Riley, Last Call Gospel Ministry, 184 County Road 108, Harisburg,
Missouri 65256, or I can still be contacted by email at
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