THE PASTOR'S PEN
LOOK
UP! YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWS NIGH...
by
Stephen Benton
Good
Morning and welcome to the House of Good News, the BIGGEST LITTLE
church in Los Angeles.
My
message to you is simple: "Earnestly contend for the faith that
was once delivered to the saints." Jude 1-3 I concur with Bishop R.P Paddock that the
persecution in these last days will not be one of being tortured, thrown into a
den of lions, or being used as entertainment in a Coliseum; it will be a
doctrinal conflict.
Let's
face it, this conflict is not being engaged by the world, it is contending
against the established Church, that portion that no longer has an ear to hear
what the Spirit has to say to it.
God
brought out a most profound truth in the class Thursday evening. He told us
that instead of killing the Son in order to obtain the inheritance as the Jews
did Jesus, today's Church is killing the Son by not receiving the message
announcing his arrival. Overall, the
Church would like for this entire issue, when
He is coming, to just go away. It won't--we will!
[Now that
the year and date of his appearing to take his Church home has passed, the Day
of Atonement, 2017, or Yom Kippur, it has. God has now taken his promise of a
"catching away" off the shelf because of the Church's unbelief]*
God
gave us another great truth in the Tuesday class. The truth he showed us was
that if the Church actually believes that Jesus is coming soon, that we are
indeed living in the latter part of the last days; it should at least begin
preaching about the coming of the Lord.
If the Church shares the opinion of the secular world that the year 2000
is a benchmark year, based on a three and a-half year warning, the Church
should have begun preaching about the coming of the Lord starting in June of
1996.** Who would have thought that as the
last days gained momentum that the Church would hedge their bets and become
mute on the subject of the Rapture?
God
later added more to me on that subject by letting me know that he has not been
giving the Church a message to preach on the Rapture because he will be spewing
most of this professing Church out of His mouth as promised in Rev. 3:16. Remember, Jesus is positioned outside the
door of this last Church Age, knocking, demanding, "if any man will hear my
voice." This Church has not
heard his voice but it does hear and follow the voice of its pastors, and they don't hear or follow God's voice and that is why in these final days the
established Church is going about business as usual.
It
has made future calendars, agendas for the next millennium, and plans that make
void the coming of the Lord. It will be
in for a great surprise--Soon. (seeing as how the Church likes that word.) It is bogged down in unbelief and, like
Israel of old, it will not enter into God's rest simply because it did not
believe and embrace the message of His coming when he sent it through his last
days' prophet.
There
are those who hold fast to the fact that Israel missed only the promised land
and that their souls were saved. In our
study of Jude 4-7, you will see how Israel's act of unbelief is listed
with the angels who left their first estate, with Sodom and Gomorrah, and with
those who crept in unawares. All of
those examples suffered an eternal punishment.
Are
all of you aware of what a great time it is in which we have been chosen by
God, elected to salvation and placed in time by God with that number who shall
not "sleep?"
Listen to this message from the Lord:
Regarding
a scripture in 1 Thessalonians regarding
"those who are alive and remain."
The subject is the Rapture. The
recipients of this message are you and me. God, through Paul, is addressing a
special message to a group of saints living in a special time. What is so special about it? We are those who have been given the first messages
announcing the time of the Rapture. We
have come to realize this message is not being received. It has opened the door to a great fight of
affliction and persecution in all of our lives.
Also, and more important to the verse above, many who first heard this
message and then later drew back, have
not "remained." Once the present recipients of this message
began to "draw back," the slide continues.
The
Lord saved me thirty plus years ago.
Throughout my journey, I thought the Rapture was the crowning event and
so did the Church. I had no idea that
this entire scenario since May, 1994, when the Holy Ghost gave me the scriptures
to determine when the event should occur, would play out this way; that the very mention of the word: Rapture would activate the demons and
those controlled by their spirit against the event. Now
the verse in Thessalonians makes sense.
Only those who are alive and have remained faithful to the announcement
of the day will participate in that day.***
Read
your book on page 140 (1997..."at the last
Trump" available on the
blogger: http://godsfinalmessagetohischurch.blogspot.com/2016/08/1997-at-last-trump-chapter-7-by-g.html) and you will see, as I did,
that God knew all about this scenario and knew that the apostasy would officially
begin with this message announcing the day of His appearing. That word "remain"
according to SG Benton's 1997..., means, "the idea of survivors in
the midst of and around those who have fallen." Many were "alive"
when the message was announced, not all have "remained." This
phase of the Laodicean's Church history is the final phase before it is
officially vomited out of Christ's mouth.
Let
me say this to you also, if you are anxious, unsettled, eager, afraid, excited,
nervous, loose and tense, your feelings are those of someone living out their
last hours who is groaning to be delivered from this body of death. Nothing like what we are about to experience
has ever happened before to anyone. Now
is the time to lean on the Rock of Jesus' words when he said:
"Upon
this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it."
The
gates of hell will make their most ardent push against the Church in the
following months. Jesus said, "...shall not prevail against it."
Those words let us know that those who are in his Church, who have remained until the final minutes before
the Rapture, no matter what the enemy throws against us, "it shall not prevail against
it." Don't be afraid! You and I are going to see God do wonderful
things before we leave here and as the terror flies by day and night, "it shall not come near thee." We may literally see thousands falling on our
right and left hands but it shall not come near unto you.
The
time will soon be upon us. Look for
things to begin heating up as more and more earth changes and catastrophes
continue to happen. Many military, political and economic changes are happening
quickly. We are receiving a subtle
message from our coming invaders. By the
way, when things begin happening in earnest look up, for your redemption is at
hand.
Stay
in the word; continue to assemble yourselves together for these final
classes. Listen to your cassettes, CDs
and watch the videos. Old ones and new ones.
Love one another. Pray for one
another.
*updated by
Shelley Benton, editor, in 2017.
**referring
to the original rapture date given to Pastor Benton in 1994
***The Lord
subsequently showed us that although a group believed the date, like Caleb and
Joshua they will have to wait because of the unbelief of the Church.
This
article was written in the THE WEEKLY
WORD OF THE HOUSE OF GOOD NEWS
09/25/1997
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