November 16, 2024 – Watchman River Tom – Look UP! For Your Redemption Draws NEAR!

Scriptures about end times for encouragement.

1 Corinthians 15: 51-52 “Behold I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. For the trumpet will sound and the dead raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.” 

Matthew 24: 42 “watch therefore for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.”

Matthew 24: 44 says be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

1 Thessalonians 5: 1-6 Paul says when they say “peace and safety” then sudden destruction comes and they shall not escape. But we that are sons of the light, the day, we will. We are told to watch. Tom says it should be a joyful watch, a longing and not cause anxiety. 

John 14: 1-3 tells us of the mansions the Father has prepared for us. 

Tom says looking at end times we always look at Israel. Not the US or any other country, Israel is God’s nation, His people. The prophetic compass of the world. 

Tom says he thinks the season of the rapture began in 1948 with Israel becoming a nation in one day. Fulfilling Isaiah 66:8. Tom says in a calendar of 6,000 years since Adam, this 76 years is not very long. It says this generation shall not pass away before Jesus 2nd coming. We are very late in the season. We could be raptured any moment. Tom says he is looking up every day. Jesus told us to be alert and watch in Matthew 24:42. 

News is light today. 

Sources Beginning of Sorrows, Insider Paper. 

An attack yesterday in Damascus, in a neighborhood, killed 20 Jihad members. 2 had official roles in the Islamic jihad.

Amir said according to Lebanon source close to Hezbollah Israel’s goal is to advance toward the sea and circle to the West which would be a severe blow to Hezbollah. 

More evacuation notices to Beirut and some bombing.

Pentagon believes with the cooperation between Russia, N. Korea, China and Iran Washington may have to defend from all these armed nuclear adversaries. Tom says he doesn’t see that happen while we are here.

Keegan says while the world is looking for Trump to bring peace and safety in the world Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 5:3 as they say “peace and safety”, comes sudden destruction. It could be the rapture at the time of fulfillment of prophecies of Isaiah 17, Jeremiah 49, and Psalm 83 with sudden destruction. 

Tom says we should never be worried. God loves us, protects  and provides for us.

In an Asian Pacific trade summit in Peru the leader of China said the world is growing in unilateralism, entered a new period of turbulence and transformation. Called for global industrial and supply chains to be kept stable and smooth. Biden is going to meet with him today they say.

FFA agency said SW airline plane was hit by gunfire near the cockpit on a Dallas runway while taking off. The plane returned to the gate and the passengers were deployed. No injuries. 

Gospel:

We  were all placed for such a time as this. God has a plan for each one of us in this time. There is something we can all do, a purpose. Some may just be able to pray, that is important. 

The fields are ripe, time is short. Believe in what He did for us to remove all our sins so we could be in heaven with a Holy God. Out of His great love Jesus came to earth willingly to shed His blood to take aways all sins. He is the perfect sacrifice, without sin, fully God, fully man. 

Must admit of sins and believe in the power of His blood to remove all sins past, present and future forever.

Believe in faith He died, was buried and rose the 3rd day and is coming again. Will be saved, born again, receive Holy Spirit, changed and rapture ready. Will not be here during the 7 year time of tribulation on earth but in heaven with Jesus and the family of God forever. 

He makes all things new! Be saved today!

Today’s Scriptures:

Matthew 24:42 NKJV

“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.”

Matthew 24:44 NKJV

“Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 NKJV

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

Hebrews 10:25 NKJV

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

1 Thessalonians 5:8-9 NKJV

But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 3:10 NKJV

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 NKJV

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

John 14:1-3 NKJV

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NKJV

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.