Preparation
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The name of the message is ‘Prepare.’ This is the house of Preparation. Now, international storms are coming, and perilous times are coming. The people are not ready; they are not prepared for anything. Just watch around, awesome events tied to economic, famines and calamities are just around the corner. The heads of state and the people are preparing for some things, but they are not preparing for the return of Christ, and they are not alert to the dangers that are settling right over their heads right now, around the world.
There is no preparation, and the Bible teaches us to be awake. Only the elect will hear the voice of preparation. The Lord told me it will be a voice to prepare yourselves, and it is the voice of preparation. So the voice of the Lord will come to prepare His people to be ready, because the people are asleep. Now in Proverbs 7:23, “As a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing it is for his life, so are the people going in the wrong direction.”
Although it has been predicted and the scriptures say at the end of time great quakes will come, California has been predicted for years and years. The radio announcements out there, after each broadcast, they will give a little bit of announcement warning the people about the quakes that could come to California and so forth, and preparing them. They decided to take a survey to see if anybody was doing anything about it. But no one, after they went, after they went around the stores, no one was taking any kind of precautions. In fact nobody was doing anything. But one of these days, something is going to take place there, and it is coming. They have had earthquakes, and so, they carry on as before. All of them are sleeping. See, they are not even looking for the return of Jesus; all 50 states in the union and the world are not looking for Jesus. They talk about the Bible, they are talking about miracles once in a while and signs and wonders, but they are not actually preparing or waiting for the Lord Jesus. Now that is the truth. But the Lord, while they are asleep, is going to begin to bring His people together now, and He is going to form them.
See, people have a life of pleasure and leisure. They deny not only God, but they are denying their own selves, they are in such condition, (Eccl. 9:12). Although the United States is a nation of providence and the providential hand of God is upon this nation, like Israel. Nevertheless, she will go through great tribulation. There will be dictatorial powers set up one of these days, and it will also be set up overseas. Why, because they rejected the true word of the Lord, they rejected the signs and the wonders of the Lord and the miracles, and they rejected the warnings and the heeding of Almighty God. They have broken the covenant, his laws, and his words and turned down the pure word of God, for something that looked like the word. Therefore, their judgment will come.
Proverbs 30:24-27, Solomon tells us ants have more wisdom than humans in an evil time. It says here, “There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise.” The ants are a people see notice the Lord called them a people, in other words, comparing them. “The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.” See, they prepare. “The cones are but a feeble folk, yet make them their houses in the rock.” They prepare by going in the rocks so that the storms and the things cannot bother them, and the heat, and they go among the rocks. He calls them folks, so he is dealing this with people. So the Lord is trying to show you that each one of them have sense enough to prepare, each one of them go on their courses; but the people today, they have no time. It seems to me, that they are not watching and vice versa. But the Lord is trying to warn what is coming. But the people are foolish in wicked times. God will create what you need, even if you put away a little bit, He can turn that little bit into a whole lot, by faith in Him. The Lord would work by supernatural means. Remember he fed the 4,000 and the 5,000. Nevertheless we are to look mostly and put our confidence in the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to provide.
No doubt, the Bride could possibly, from time to time, just before the translation, also be into some kind of predicaments. But the Lord said, in his word, leap for joy. This is the group that He is going to have the pillar of fire and the cloud will be over them. Never fear, He will stand beside you. The only reason that He would allow it to occur is to prepare you a little more with your faith, so that He can translate you out of the horrible onslaught that is going to come. This is true. Perilous and catastrophic years are coming. The bride makes herself ready. The bible says the bride makes herself ready, also it speaks of it in Rev. 19:7 that the bride; and it speaks about it in several parts of the scriptures, about being prepared then.
Proverbs 4:5-10, “Take hold of wisdom, get wisdom, get understanding, forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ointment of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.”
Oh! Just look what the wisdom of the Holy Spirit does for you. You receive salvation, you receive a crown of glory, and you are promoted in honor, standing with the Lord Jesus Christ in the heavenlies and all of these things with the heavenly wisdom here. How valuable for one to seek wisdom by fearing the Lord wherein love is created by the Spirit, gifts are thy reward. You get that wisdom n your heart and you will break forth in gifts and the fruits of the Spirit and the Holy Ghost will come down and He will overshadow you. That is wonderful.
Wisdom is one of the things, you will know if you have got a little wisdom or not, and I believe that each one of the elect should have some wisdom and some of them more wisdom: some of them, probably the gift of wisdom. But let me tell you something; Wisdom is awake, wisdom is ready, wisdom is alert, wisdom prepares and wisdom foresees. He foresees backwards, saith the Lord and he foresees forward. Wisdom is knowledge also, that is true. So wisdom is watching for the return of Christ, to receive the crown. So when people have wisdom they are watching. If they are asleep and they are a sluggard and they don’t have the sense of an ant or anything else and they are off in a delusion; then they have no wisdom and they are lacking wisdom.
But to prepare in the hour means to be alert. It means to seek the Lord in such a way that you are active and then watchful, testifying and telling of the Lord’s wonders and pointing them to the scriptures and confirming God’s word and telling them He is supernatural. So prepare yourself. Study Proverbs 1:24-33. Look at how many miracles and the Holy Spirit, performing many great things in the lives of thousands and millions of people. Then today, see what is happening. They are going asleep. They have lost their first love. Prepare for worldwide events, everything is happening underneath right now but it will rise. A subtle world power is rising up among the grasses out of the earth. It is rising and people cannot see it, but it will come. Study Ephesians 6:13-17, it says, “Put on the whole armor of God to withstand the evil day. And the breastplate of righteousness and the shield of faith, quenching the fiery darts of satan and those things.” Prepare, put it on: The helmet of salvation and the sword, which is the word of God. Put on, Paul said, the full armor of God. Put it on, the anointing, and be awake and watch for these things. Be vigilant, he said, be sober; because we are at the time when satan is going forth to snare the people of the earth. But be ready and prepared.
Now there will be storms and gigantic earthquakes, famines and economic calamities will come, prepare. The Lord will supply and protect the elect for the translation. People are not using knowledge or wisdom, they don’t care. This sermon is to prepare and get you ready. Do not sleep as some did. Study Luke 21:35-36, Rev. 3:10-19. Be alert for these things that God is going to send. Then signs and wonders of the Lord; be awake, be watchful. Do not be like the foolish virgins in Matt. 25.1-10, when the Lord came they were all asleep. Do not be like that. But prepare yourself and be ready and the Lord will give you some things; a crown of glory. So this is the hour, be wise, be vigilant and be watchful.
Some people today say, well, how do you prepare? If you listen or read this sermon, The Lord told you two or three times, exactly how to prepare and what wisdom. Some of that is to be alert, testify, and to have the oil of the Spirit, read the word of God and the many other things that we spoke about here. The Lord in his “still small voice,” is going to call each one of you and He is going to bring you through. The Lord is going to see you face to face, because He is going to prepare; so have wisdom in your heart and be prepared for all of these things that shall come upon the world. Be ready, and don’t go to sleep, be watchful. So there is an urgency going out and it is time to prepare. This message will be more valuable in the days ahead, because it is exactly what the people need.
001 – Preparation