Well, the 70th Week of Daniel begins with the breaking of the Seals on the little scroll (book), and that brings the invasion of Israel which is also seen as the Ezekiel 38 war of those Islamic countries with Magog (Russia) as their guard.  Magog (mentioned and described as with a bow and conquering) will be the white rider (I have no idea why people mistake a judgement like the first rider of the Apocalypse with Jesus at the end on a White Horse... that does show conquering, but the first rider is a judgement and is seen in Ezekiel 38 as Gog of Magog with Iran, Libya, etc. invading Israel.  The 4 horses of the first 4 seals in Revelation 6 are a World War like nobody has even seen before which will consume 1/4 of the Earth in bloody death.

The First Seal has "not" been broken yet.. that invasion has not yet occurred.  HOWEVER, if you see what is happening the news the past month (and just this week), you see where the pieces are being put into place for this very thing to occur.

The storm is already here and will be blowing and causing the time to become more and more perilous... but the seals have not yet been broken biblically.  I also believe that this generation will not pass away which sees the beginning of these things.... Jesus used a parable of the seasons and the blooming of the fig tree in Matthew 24. 

Matthew 24:32-35 (NKJV) " 32 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near--at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. "


When you look through all of prophetic scriptures (the Bible interprets its own symbols by the way), you find that the Ezekiel 37 event of Israel coming alive again and becoming a nation is the blooming of the fig tree.  2 ways to look at that one... one is in 1947 when Israel became a nation, or in 1967 at the Six Day War when they retook Jerusalem and became a whole nation again.  Either way, there will be people who see this prophecy come to pass (in our generation... I wasn't alive in 1947, but I was a kid in 1967) who will still be alive when all of these things (he is speaking of as occurring in the Tribulation) all come to pass which ends at the DAY OF THE LORD, or Armageddon.  This generation shall not pass.  He is speaking of the Fig Tree blooming... the 70th Week of Daniel is a 7-year period (Daniel 9:24-27). 

So, are we close?  INCREDIBLY CLOSE... this is the 11th Hour of the Harvest, and the Lord of the Harvest is calling right now (I can hear it... will you hear the voice of the Lord calling us to work?) for workers to work His Harvest while there is still time before the darkness sets in and the 12th Hour comes... the end of the Harvest and the beginning of other things.  This is when we receive our reward.  But how many who say that they are Christians are NOT working the harvest, but sitting idle in the market place?

Matthew 20:1-9 (NKJV) 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day?' 7 They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.' 8 So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.' 9 And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.

I am not clear what you mean by "pre-trib".  Could you explain that, please?  Pre-trib is usually used of the idea of the church being caught up (Greek harpazio though most people prefer the word rapture though its not in the Bible... idea is there, just not the word rapture) and receiving their rewards at the 12th Hour above... 1 Thessalonians 4 (great hope given) and my favorite, Matthew 25 and the 10 Virgins (the 5 wise were ready but the 5 foolish were left behind being lukewarm).  There is the "mid-trib" idea of a catching away in the middle of the Tribulation (which does occur with the 144,000 or manchild born of the woman... identified with Israel in the middle at the 7th Trumpet), but this is out of the nation of Israel and not the "church".  In fact, the authority of the church must be taken from the Earth for the Antichrist to rise unimpeded.  The "post-trib" idea is that the church goes through the Wrath of God (unbiblical) and is caught up at Armageddon (also unbiblical).  He is coming in wrath and not hope.  The only hope is for those who endure to the end and survive until He comes hiding out in places like Petra... I have some studies posted on this on the Voice of theWatchman website, or you could probably go back in the history and find some here.

We are in the last generation of the Last Days.  We are told by Jesus and others (such as Paul) that we would not know the day or the hour (Rosh Hashanah is the day that no man knows and is actually starts when they see the moon and goes for 2 days... it is a shadow which shows a coming spiritual reality), but we would know the seasons (1 Thessalonians 5).  WE ARE THERE... IN THE SEASON OF CHRIST'S RETURN. 

Things will continue to wax worse and worse... they will not get better no matter what liar has said that they would.  They will continue to go down, but the good part of this is that God promised that in the Last Days He would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh... this is that prophetic generation.  So, while the great apostasy or falling away is occurring, God is revealing Himself for one last 11th Hour Revival.  See, we can change the world in Jesus' name around us even if the world is on its way to judgement... we can still work the harvest. 

GOD PROPHETICALLY COMMANDED ME TO SOUND THE ALARM AS A WATCHMAN... and I have been doing so... So, I ask all that I can... are you ready?  Can you see the storm clouds?  Are you ready?  Are you working to reach the lost and get others ready?  The alarm is being sounded and Jesus is soon to return, are you ready?

This is my call.

James







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Philippians 3:8-10 " 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;


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