ESCAPE FROM WRATH
Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Luke 3:7)
The Bible says the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, particularly on men that hold the truth of God in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18).
The Wrath of God is the way of God’s expression and disburse of His anger designated to a set of time, people or location in a supreme way to prove His set-aside judgment according to the deeds that are not in agreement with the way of living set up as a standard of living for this Earth by God. (Romans 2 v 5-9).
Usually, this happens not all the time but like I said God has a set time to showcase His reaction only for reproof and correction of a particular behavior that is all through human history. But the one I am describing is a long way bigger and the final way of God to put an end to all things that offend His own way of life. God has all the while decided to withhold His anger so as not to destroy both the good and the bad in the process of the outburst of His anger but He has decided to set up a day in His heart to do so. The display of that day would be an accumulation of all the anger against the offenses of every generation of the Earth that were supposed to have experienced. God pressed that anger together and bottled it up into a Day of Wrath.
And this what the Bible calls the DAY OF THE LORD all through the Bible. (Isaiah 13:6; Zeph. 1:14- end; Romans 2:5). This is what John the Baptist was referring to saying to the people of his day saying “Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come.”
Isaiah 13:6 Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Many of us could not fathom what the Bible describes as the “WRATH OF GOD” just because the word is not attractive to us. Yet the Bible gave a categorical description of what can be best referred to as the wrath of God. Many did not believe it is real just because we have not experienced it before. The Bible decreed that the wrath of God will be revealed or poured on people that offend the way of God.
This wrath of God has been set aside as a way of punishment on all God’s enemies. The Bible describes the wrath of God as a judgment and fiery indignation of God that has been reserved for those who choose to disobey the order of things God has set for this world.
Hebrews 10:26-27 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
The explanation you are about to read is the account of another encounter I had with Jesus Christ on Feb. 2010, where He said I should blow the trumpet of this message as the reason why Christians should make all efforts to go with Him on Rapture day.
(This explanation is subjected to human flaws because what was revealed was far more beyond human reason. Likewise, the details divulged were according to my level of exposure to spiritual things).
A REVELATION
First let me share a little part of one revelation I had received before when I was opportune to see myself in Heaven. This is because the Lord referred back to it that morning as part of His explanation to this story.
In that experience I was taken to visit the throne room of God in Heaven where I saw a big white throne with stairway to each step of a floor that looks like a big decorated cake in shape. On each level of the stairway were angels veiling their sight while on the top of it all were three seats, I did not see anyone but fire on those seats. There was a kind of rainbow ring that stands over like an oval around the throne. But then I took notice of something hanging far above the throne that looks like roaring clouds mingled with fire, thunder, and lightning. It was very difficult to look at it.
While beholding the wonders around the throne, I suddenly saw white smoke coming from the Earth before the throne spreading itself around the fire on the throne. It was then I discovered that the Lord is sitting on that throne. While I was there, I could not see Him earlier because of the fire on the throne. I got to know that the Lord was on the throne when I heard a voice releasing blessing on sighting the white smoke and then sending a blessing back to Earth. Jesus later explained to me that the white smoke is the sacrifice of worship from the saints of God on Earth.
Not long after, I saw thick dark smoke from the Earth approaching the same way the other smoke had come before the throne. But instead of the dark smoke spreading itself around the fire on the throne, it just went up towards the roaring clouds of fire and thunder and wanted to drag those roaring clouds down upon the Earth. Suddenly I saw the Lord Jesus with His blood pushing those roaring clouds back to their place.
When I asked Him what the roaring clouds were and why it want to fall upon the Earth, He called it “the WRATH OF GOD” and that it has been reserved purposely for a time. He continued that invasion of different levels of sin and abomination going on the face of the Earth is the dark smoke and had always wanted to drag down the wrath of God upon the Earth but His blood had always prevented it from falling upon the Earth. He said when the time come for the wrath to come He will not prevent it again.
Going back to what happened that morning, the Lord referred back to this vision saying that He wants to give me the vivid experience of what He went through immediately after He left the cross.
He said, “First you must understand why blood is imperative to the work of Redemption. When the Lord created the Earth, I was at the beginning as the “Word of God” that did not possess human image meaning just like the Holy Spirit is without human form. This was how I was at the time of the beginning. You can read My account in Proverbs 8:22 -30. I lived then as the Word of God not having human form.
What brings about the issue of blood was because there was a need for blood to intervene in the problem caused by the sin of man to God. The Lord God created man in His holiness that man might live eternally. But man fell into the sin of disobeying the order and principles God used to create the Earth.
Several things were damaged at the inception of the sin of man into the world which changed the order of things God has set for man thereby exposing man to the wrath of the holiness of God. It is the holiness of God that was demanding vengeance on man for breaking the covenant. The book of Isaiah 24:5– 6 says that because the Earth is defiled by its inhabitants by changing the ordinance of it, broken everlasting covenant then the Earth will be made desolate and be burned.”
Proverbs 8:22-30 The LORD possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills were, I brought forth: 26 While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass on the face of the depth: 28 When He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep: 29 When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment: when He appointed the foundations of the earth: 30 Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him;
Isaiah 24:5-6 The Earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore has the curse devoured the Earth and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
THE HEAVENLY TABERNACLE
There was a heavenly tabernacle though situated in Heaven was part of human creation. It is a place God set aside for man in Heaven to attend to the needs of man. It was the copy of this tabernacle that was given to Moses in the wilderness. (Exodus 26)
Remember the Bible also talks of this tabernacle as a tabernacle which the Lord Himself pitched not man. Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building.
This Earth was made purposely for flesh and blood existence and not spiritual dwelling which was planned by God when creating the Earth. In the process to give man free hand of choice in handling the affairs of the Earth, part of the work of creation had included setting up of a heavenly tabernacle where God uses as a place of attending to the affairs of men on Earth.
IMPLICATIONS OF SIN’S INTRUSION
Immediately after sin was introduced into the Earth, the holiness of God in which man was created got provoked in anger to demand justice of the holiness of God. This gave rise to the Wrath of God. The Mercy of God prevented this wrath from falling upon His work of creation. In the process, it got diverted to the heavenly tabernacle where the prayers of man are being attended to. There is a place in the heavenly tabernacle called the Holy of Holies where God meets with the high priest.
Because man had deconsecrated the holiness of God in the image of God (human body) that is now carrying sin, yet the holiness of God cannot behold sin but produced anger on the man where he would always meet with God.
That is why some of the past high priests died in the process of handling their assignments for the people when they were still inside the Most Holy Place. These are the factors limiting the effect of answered prayers before Christ has to die to remove the veil. This is also one of the reasons why Jesus has to come to destroy the hindrances of prayers caused by the veil which was removed at Jesus’ death. As Jesus’ death removed the sin of mankind, the veil that represented the sin of mankind was no longer needed.
THE EVIDENCE OF THE WRATH
Due to what man is experiencing from the Wrath of God’s holiness, the Lord decided to look for a medium of solution to intervene in the condition of man seeing what sin had done to man. To avert the Wrath, it requires blood to break the siege of the wrath which was caused by flesh and blood. The only thing that can appease the wrath is the blood that knows no sin. This is where the Blood of the Lamb came into being. It requires blood to enter into the Holiest of the Holies where God uses to answer the prayers of His people as the result of the presence of sin.
The evidence of these is seen where the earthly high priest enters into the Most Holy Place with sin in his life died instantly. Another evidence is the situation when David wanted to transport the Ark of the Covenant where it seems as it will fall, a man called Uzzah touched in order to lift it up and fire came out of it and consumed the man instantly. The Bible says in Hebrew 5:1–4 that the work a high priest pleads for the sins of the people and for his own sin.
Hebrews 5:1-4 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
However, Jesus said, “When it required that they must see blood to plead the case of man, a search was made through the whole of Heaven, the Earth and underneath the Earth for one that has BLOOD THAT HAS NO SIN. And no one was found to possess this.”
Revelation 5:3 And no man in Heaven, nor in Earth, neither under the Earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
Let it be known to you that at this junction, this whole story looks like a mystery to me that I had to ask the Lord again for biblical confirmation of this. He pointed to Revelation 5. “This grieved the heart of God the Father that no one was found to save man by blood. It was however at this junction that I as the Word of God chose to lay down My life for the man when no one was found that carries sinless blood. No one asks Me to lay down My life but I chose to do so when I saw the grief man had done to the heart of My Father.”
At this junction I asked the Lord Jesus again if what He told me can be biblically supported and He gave me John 10:16-17 to confirm it.
John 10:16-17 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 17 Therefore does My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.
Suddenly, that morning Jesus showed me scenes of His crucifixion starting from the time of His beating to the time He breathed the last breath. What I saw that morning was totally different from what I use to imagine of His crucifixion because they used to portray Christ's picture with a loincloth wrapped around His waist but He was naked all through what was shown to me. From the beating to the point of His nailing to the cross He was naked throughout. I saw Jesus tied down in the midst of soldiers at His beating with fur types of whip laced with piercing objects to pierce His skin that produced excessive bleeding. The thorns woven together were two inches each long which was pressed into the scalp of His head. He told me this was what He saw the night He was praying in the garden of Gethsemane that the suffering will be changed but the will of God must take place.
Matthew 26:39 And He went a little farther, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.
STRANGE EXPERIENCE
On that fateful day I woke up around 5 am in the morning to pray. While kneeling down beside my bed. I opened my Bible but did not have any place in particular to read. I decided to start my prayers with thanksgiving and immediately I spoke this word, “Thank You for the price You paid to grant us life” came from my mouth. I heard the Lord’s voice beside me saying that I should take a look at the place my Bible was opened to, which I did. I had opened my Bible to the book of Hebrew unintentionally and my eyes went straight to chapter 9 verse 24 which quote thus, “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:”
The Lord asked me to read out what my eyes caught. After reading them out He proceeded to tell me that He wants to show me the VALUE of the price He paid through His blood and the PURPOSE of the value. He said what He would show me might disturb me but I should be strong to look and not take my eyes off what I will be shown. Then He started with an explanation:
That morning what I saw while the Lord was talking, He told me that what He wants to show would somehow disturb me but I should not take my eyes off my Bible as He would illuminate my eyes to see things from it. I started looking at my Bible which started to show as a screen. Immediately I set my eyes on it. This is what I saw.
I saw a tabernacle which the Lord said is the one in Heaven. The tabernacle was covered with a roaring cloud that had a mixture of fire and thunder and lightning. The roaring cloud was making a lot of noises around the whole of the tabernacle as if wanting to tear it down but the structure remained standing where it was. There was an earthquake shaking the whole place yet it still remains standing.
Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of His testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
The sight of the whole event was ugly to look at because immediately I started looking at it my stomach turned upside down that caused vomiting and foaming in my mouth. I had to excuse myself from the Lord that I needed to go to the toilet but the Lord warned me again that I should not take my eyes off what He was showing me. I came back to the same spot after the excuse to go to the toilet to see according to the Lord’s instruction and the pictures resumed viewing as before. I didn’t know what I am looking at but the Lord explained to me that the cloudy happenings are the wrath of God covering the entire premises of heavenly tabernacle started from the time sin was committed in the garden of Eden. And that this condition of God’s wrath covering the heavenly tabernacle has been in existence till the day He had to die to avert it.
The Lord told me the next exact situation that took place immediately after He gave up the ghost on the cross of Calvary. He said He carried the blood straight to the tabernacle of Heaven into the Most Holy Place to remove the wrath of God hanging on it for man.
From the pictures, I saw the Lord Jesus in His blood covered from head to toe but in nakedness. I saw Him with His two hands stretched out while blood was gushing out of the hands and legs and His whole hair was also drenched in blood.
I saw Him coming towards the heavenly tabernacle. While getting closer to the tabernacle the noises around the whole place increased so much as if the whole place is going to disappear into thin air. I discovered that when Jesus approached this troubled tabernacle there was complete silence in the whole of Heaven as they gave a complete focus to what was about to happen.
The Lord told me that this is because it was the hour the whole of Heaven have all been waiting for, which is the redemption of man from destruction and to remove the wrath of God from man. When He approached the tabernacle, His presence provoked the happenings around the whole place.
At that point in time, what I saw sent my being spinning that I had to take my eyes off my Bible but within a split second,the whole noises and the happenings around the tabernacle stopped and the whole place became quiet and clean as the tabernacle was now visible to the eyes.
At the point I asked Jesus what happened. He said, "Why did you take your eyes off?"
Then with great admiration, I saw Jesus coming out from the tabernacle. The whole of Heaven seeing Him fell prostrated before Him singing to Him this common chorus, "THOU ART WORTHY OH LORD TO RECEIVE GLORY, HONOUR AND POWER BECAUSE YOU HAVE REDEEMED MEN FROM DESTRUCTION BACK TO GOD.
Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
I have been singing this song. I never knew it was sung by Heaven for a purpose. This reason they sang “Thou art Worthy” was because what has proven impossible Jesus Christ accomplished by offering Himself for it.
When I asked the Lord where did the wrath get to, He answered me back with Psalms 75:8 which quotes thus: for in the hand of the Lord, there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and He poured out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the Earth shall wring them out and drink them.
The Lord said this, “The reason I said I have paid the full price for man is that I have removed the wrath of God from you people. Come out, you don’t have to partake of this wrath since I have paid for you. This is because immediately after I have come to gather My own people from the Earth, the Father is going to pour out His wrath from the cup that has been reserved upon the Earth. The book of Revelation 16 describes vividly this wrath the way it operates while men are still on the Earth.”
Revelation 16:1-21 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God on the earth. 2 And the first went, and poured out his vial on the earth, and there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image. 3 And the second angel poured out his vial on the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. 4 And the third angel poured out his vial on the rivers and fountains of waters, and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, You are righteous, O Lord, which are, and were, and shall be, because you have judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments. 8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which has power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. 10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial on the seat of the beast, and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightning; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were on the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And there fell on men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
GOD BLESS YOU WITH ABUNDANT OF PEACE FROM CHRIST
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