I love Watchman River. I've been watching him almost everyday since last year. He DEFINITELY is a hidden gem in the Kingdom. (maybe not so hidden any more.) Here’s todays update - Fair Use - ————- He asks if you knew the rapture was going to happen tomorrow what will you do today? I would pray one last prayer for the lost and then … go out to my favorite restaurant and pig out and celebrate the home-going!!! :whistle: My food supply and bottled water will be left for the unsaved to break in strangers/neighbors to freely take and I placed a few family Bibles on the shelves along with Bible Tracts. I’m not writing any left behind letters. What will you do? If I knew the rapture was tomorrow I'd eat a box of donuts today! 😁 Truthfully, I don’t know that I’d do anything differently. I’ve done what I felt I should have done. My breakfast lunch and dinner would be the treats I've tried to avoid for so long: Boxes of donuts and coffee! Homemade apple pie! Peach crisp! Ice cream! A Pepsi! I would pray all day and night for my family, with lots of tears, and for the lost who remain unsaved worldwide. :prayer-hands: I'd feel sad for those who still rejected the Truth. I'd pray God brings them through the Trib. I'd remind the Lord :heart: that all our pets are also all part of the "house" of the Saints. :prayer-hands: I'd say goodbye to our home ~ it's been a haven! :rose: I'd sit back with Dan, hold his hand and .... blast worship music until :flyup: :flyup: !!! :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: I’m all for THAT list of your last meals on earth! Just 1 itsy bitsy change though … B-) Boxes of donuts and Homemade apple pie! Peach crisp! Ice cream! A Pepsi! Aw … I have a peace now about our fur babies are not going to be left behind! Chance @ 5 Doves wrote an article this week … here is part of it … Animals have suffered much in this world too. They have paid a price too. On Day 6 Of Creation: God made the land animals and man. When He created the animals "Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind. God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind, the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepth upon the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:24, 25 The creation of animals was Good in the eyes of God. Animals and the Rapture: And what will become of God's much beloved animals when the Tribulation Period begins? I must look at the first time God destroyed the earth - with water. He took all those precious to Him - both man and beast - out of the way of the coming destruction by water. And then He made a covenant with them to never do that again to them. I cannot help but believe that God will also take those precious to Him - both man and beast - out of the way of the coming destruction by fire. But as in the Flood, not all the animals will be saved. This would explain the wild beasts in the Revelation that are under the authority of Death (the rider of the pale green horse) that help kill a fourth of the population of earth. And the birds ' that come to feast on those who went to battle against Israel. Revelation 19:17. (In my other letter to Doves today I wrote about the "wild beasts of the field and forest" being used by the rider of the pale horse, Death, to help kill some two billion human beings. Those animals will be used in the Tribulation - they have a purpose designated by God.) Also, some believe these 'animals' (wild beasts and birds of prey in the Tribulation) may be of a demonic origin - and not animals as we know them. I believe, as we are made in the image of God, that we have many of the feelings God has. I can imagine what I feel when I see a puppy or a foal or a fawn, that God feels so much more as they are His creation! God has given us the ability for much love - love of spouse, love of child, love of neighbor, and also love of animals. As He cares for them, we can care for them. God gave man dominion over the fish, the birds, the livestock, the creatures on the earth. And that dominion involves respect, love, and care of them as they are special to God. I believe that God will save our pets before the Tribulation. Animals are not mentioned in the Rapture. But God did not leave them to the horror of the Flood, so I do not believe He will leave them to the horror of the coming Tribulation. Will they experience something similar to a rapture? A taking to Heaven? Randy Alcorn, in his book "Heaven", wrote since white horses are in Heaven, why not our pets? CS Lewis said in his book, "The Problem of Pain", "tame animals might enter the pearly gates of heaven through their relationship with humans." "Jesus gives us some insight. He said the days before the Rapture would be "just like" the days of Noah and Lot...Now, if it's "just like" Noah's day, and Noah floated away with an ark full of animals, leaving some behind...we should expect the Rapture to be similar...Therefore, we expect SOME animals to be taken/translated from the earth, along with us Believers, in order to miss God's wrath. Then the logical choice for at least SOME of the animals would include our pets. Interestingly, these animals would be expected to return to the earth with the humans at the end of the Tribulation, for the Reign of Jesus in the Millennium. This is consistent with verses that show animals in the Millennium have changed back to their original non-carnivorous state during the Millennium. "The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy Mountain", says the Lord." Isaiah 65:25 I absolutely know that my dogs, cats, horses will be in Heaven. I had a most unusual experience back in 2006 and a couple of other odd occurrences in the years following - that proved to me dogs and cats go to Heaven. And I'll add horses, etc....do too!. Many other people have had similar occurrences/stories with pets that have died. There are just too many stories...and if only one is true.... That's all it takes. And simply based upon God's love for the animals - that tells me they go to Him when they die and they will go to Him before the Tribulation. He is their creator. They give Him praise and glory! They completely trust Him to take care of them. They live and die according to His will. He loves them more than me. If He cares enough to promise animals with a rainbow in the clouds never again will He destroy them with a flood - that shows how much He loves and cares for them and how painful it was for Him to send that flood. I believe He will remove them before the Tribulation starts and the world is destroyed by fire. The Tribulation will be a horrible time of suffering and death for His precious animals. What would be the purpose of that? It will be their own special 'removal' process. A 'To God, With Love!" miracle. There is plenty of room for all that God loves in Heaven! Just some thoughts for now.... Maranatha! Chance - Fair Use - ————————————— So our pets are “Good Gifts” James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Psalm 36:6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments area great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. (Preservest - means to keep from decay - new bodies for those who are saved and their pets but the unsaved are working dead men). Romans 8:19-23 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (aka the rapture!) The way I see it … if our pets don’t immediately go up with us at the rapture … I’m sure the Lord will assigned our guardian angels the task to fly down and gather them and carry them up to our dwelling places! :yes:
coffee! Tea! 😉 Now that’s better 😉