{"id":2544,"date":"2013-09-22T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:39:37","slug":"ready-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2013\/09\/22\/ready-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready Or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018About three o\u2019clock in the morning Jesus came toward them, walking on the water\u2026 So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water towards Jesus<\/i>\u2019 Matt.14:25 &29<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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A number of people struggle with the notion of rapture. To some the whole idea sounds funny and their concern is, \u2018is the Bible speaking figuratively?\u2019 If you say that rapture sounds funny, then what would you say about the virgin that conceived? What would you say about the red sea parting and the children of Israel walking on dry land? Or water coming out of a rock in the wilderness? How about resurrection or perhaps the turning of water into wine? If you are comfortable with God turning water into wine, then is rapture too big for this same God? To the God that can cause a transfiguration from water into wine and create the heavens and the earth, what is rapture? And guess what, God has done it before with Elijah and it wasn\u2019t figurative. \u2018As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a chariot of fire appeared, drawn by horses of fire. It drove between the two men, separating them, and Elijah was carried by a whirlwind into heaven<\/i>\u2019 2 Kings 2:11<\/a>. Elijah was raptured. Jesus in the ascension was raptured. \u2018And it came to pass, while he blessed then, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven<\/i>\u2019 Luke 24:50 [KJV]. Rapture is not a new thing with God. \u2018Enoch lived 365 years, walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him<\/i>\u2019 Gen.5:23-24<\/a>. For all of these examples they went away to be with the Lord but with Philip it was different. Philip was in Jerusalem one day and the next thing he knew he was in Ethiopia ministering by the power of the Holy Spirit. I used to know someone who was preaching, walked off the stage but he did not fall down and he walked right back on stage. You need to understand that with God such things are nothing. If you don\u2019t know God then you would think you could put Him in a small box of logic. I\u2019m looking forward to rapture, it is going to be awesome and I don\u2019t want to miss it. The question is not if it will happen, the question is will you be ready? If Jesus shows up now are you ready? If not then sort it out today because rapture will happen. God\u2019s Words will never return to Him void.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Prayer<\/b>: Father, help me keep my focus on what is truly important and not try to reason out Your Words based on logic, in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018About three o\u2019clock in the morning Jesus came toward them, walking on the water\u2026 So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water towards Jesus\u2019 Matt.14:25 &29   A number of people struggle with the notion of rapture. To some the whole idea sounds funny and their concern is, \u2018is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heaven-hell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}