FRESH START

HOW DO WE ENSURE WE WILL MAKE IT TO HEAVEN WHEN WE DIE? 

WHEN WE DIE OR LEAVE THIS EARTH, OUR SOULS GO BACK TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY CAME.  THE BIBLE SAYS, "IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MEN (AND WOMEN) ONCE TO DIE...AND AFTER THAT, THE JUDGEMENT." SO HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT WE MAKE IT BACK HOME, OR TO HEAVEN, WHICH IS WHERE GOD DWELLS AND WHERE WE CAME FROM IN THE FIRST PLACE?THE BIBLE SAYS THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GET TO HEAVEN:

JOHN 3:16 - "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (JESUS), THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM WILL NOT PERISH, BUT WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE."

GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON (JESUS) INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD; HE SENT HIS SON TO EARTH IN  HOPES THAT THROUGH OUR FAITH AND BELIEF IN HIM, IF WE CHOOSE, THAT WE MIGHT BE SAVED!

SO, JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN; AS THE BIBLE SAYS, "JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE; NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER (GOD), BUT BY OR THROUGH HIM (JESUS).

SO IT IS YOUR CHOICE TO CHOOSE, WHILE YOU'RE ON EARTH, WHO YOU WILL SERVE; THIS WORLD OR GOD; SATAN OR GOD; DEATH OR ETERNAL LIFE (JESUS).

SO CHOOSE JESUS TODAY AS YOUR LORD, SAVIOR AND GOD, AND YOU WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.  WE ARE NOT ALL PERFECT, AND GOD KNOWS THIS; THIS IS WHY JESUS HAD TO DIE ON THE CROSS AND GIVE HIMSELF AS A LIVING SACRIFICE AND DIE IN OUR PLACE FOR OUR SINS; IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN US UP ON THAT CROSS.  IF JESUS HAD NOT DIED FOR US, WE WOULD ALL AUTOMATICALLY BE LOST AND CONSIGNED TO HELL WITH NO HOPE. ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS ACCEPT HIS FREE GIFT (GRACE) OF SALVATION AND BELIEVE ON HIM (JESUS) AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, AND GOD, AND NOT PUT ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD, OR THE UNIVERSE FOR THAT MATTER, IN THE PLACE OF GOD.  IF WE DO, THEN WE DO NOT BELONG IN HEAVEN, ARE NOT FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND WE WILL NOT RETURN HOME WHEN WE DIE.

LASTLY, JUST BEING GOOD OR DOING GOOD THINGS IN THIS LIFE WILL NOT GET YOU BACK HOME OR BACK TO HEAVEN WITH THE CREATOR.  YOU MUST ACCEPT AND BELIEVE IN HIS SON JESUS, WHO IS GOD, AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR!

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

-GARRY B. COSTON-

 WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD?

EARTHQUAKES, FAMINES, DISEASE (PESTILENTCES), FEARFUL SIGNS IN SPACE (UFO'S, ETC.), WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS, PERSECUTION OF THE GODLY, DESPISING WHAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT, HATERS OF WHAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT, NOT HONORING OUR MOTHER AND FATHER, FAMILY BETRAYAL, FALSE PROPHETS AND CHRISTS, NO LOVE, INCREASE OF LAWLESSNESS, INCREASE AND MORE LICENSE TO ACCEPT SIN AND SINFUL THINGS.......AND I COULD GO ON AND ON.

DOES ALL OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?  DOES ALL OF THIS SOUND LIKE WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR WORLD TODAY?  IF YOU DON'T RECOGNIZE ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED AS GOING ON NOW, OR AS THE SIGN OF THE TIMES, OR EVEN DON'T BELIEVE IT OR CHOOSE NOT TO BELIEVE IT, THEN IT'S POSSIBLE YOU ARE NOT A CHILD OF GOD.

JESUS SAYS THAT WHEN WE SEE AND HEAR OF THE AFOREMENTIONED THINGS, THAT THESE ARE ONLY "BIRTH PANGS," IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

HE ALSO SAID WHEN WE SEE AND HEAR OF SUCH THINGS, TO "LIFT UP OUR HEADS BECAUSE OUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NEAR;" IN OTHER WORDS, HIS COMING AND RETURN IS NEAR, AND IT IS CLOSE TO THE TIME OF THE "CATCHING UP" OR "RAPTURE" OF BELIEVERS OR HIS CHURCH TO BE WITH HIM (SEE THE ARTICLE AND PARAGRAPH TO THE RIGHT), BEFORE THE HORRORS OF REVELATION ARE UNLEASHED UPON THE EARTH.

THIS "CATCHING UP" OR "RAPTURE" OF BELIEVERS (AGAIN, SEE THE ARTICLE AND PARAGRAPH TO THE RIGHT), IS JUST ABOUT THE ONLY PROPHECY LEFT TO BE FULFILLED BEFORE THE HORRORS OF REVELATION (THE TRIBULATION) HAPPENS ON EARTH AND THE PERMANENT RETURN OR SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST. SO GET READY AND BE PREAPRED! ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR TODAY!

DOES THE BIBLE SPEAK OF THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH?  YOU'LL BET IT DOES.  CHECK OUT 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-18, AND REVELATION  5:1-3.  REVELATION 3:10-11 ALSO ADDRESSES THE RAPURE IN A SENSE, AS GOD PROMISES TO KEEP THOSE WHO BELIEVE, HAVE FAITH, AND TRUST IN HIM OUT OF THE HOUR OR TIME OF TRIAL (THE TRIBULATION) THAT WILL COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD AND TEST THOSE THAT ARE LEFT BEHIND (SEE THE ARTICLE AND PARAGRAPH TO THE RIGHT).  ONE MORE THING; THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE BIBLE, GOD ALWAYS BROUGHT HIS PEOPLE (THOSE THAT LOVE HIM), TO SAFETY BEFORE HE EXACTED WRATH AND JUDGEMENT ON A PARTICULAR AREA, CITY, NATION, ETC.; AND HE PROMISES TO DO THE SAME IN OUR MODERN TIMES.

SO WHAT SHOULD YOU OR I (WE) DO?

TRUST IN THE LORD ONLY WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART, SOUL, MIND AND SPIRIT, AND LEAN NOT UNTO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING (THE FOOLISH WISDOM, TRENDS, FADS, TECHNOLOGY, PRECEPTS, LAWS, ORDINANCES, AND OTHER THINGS OF THIS WORLD)!

ACCEPT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR, AND BELIEVE IN HIM AS LORD AND GOD, AND ALSO WHAT HE DID ON THE CROSS FOR ALL OF MANKIND SO THAT WE WILL BE SAVED (PROVIDED HIMSELF AS A SACRIFICE, IN OUR PLACE, SO THAT WE CAN BE SAVED AND RETURNED TO HEAVEN INSTEAD OF HELL WHEN WE DIE).

DON'T BE AFRAID OR SCARED OF THE THINGS THAT ARE NOW HAPPENING OR THAT WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN NOW AND THE RAPTURE.  TRUST IN GOD.  SATAN WANTS YOU TO BE SCARED. TRUST IN GOD AND HE WILL PROTECT YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE.

HEAVEN!

WORSE CASE SCENARIO:  YOU DIE BELIEVING IN GOD AND ARE IMMEDIATELY TAKEN HOME TO HEAVEN TO BE WITH HIM FOR ALL ETERNITY WITH NO WORRIES, CARES, DISEASES, HUNGER, THIRST, FEAR, ANXIETY, CONFUSION, GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING FOR YOU WITH NO PRECONDITIONS ONCE YOU ARRIVE THERE. BUT YOUR MIND AND SPIRIT MUST FIRST BE RENEWED IN CHRIST WHILE ON EARTH, THAT IS, TO CHRISTLIKE THINKING (WHICH IS THE WAY GOD THINKS) BEFORE YOU APPEAR IN HEAVEN BEFORE HIM (GOD). WHILE ON EARTH YOU MUST FIRST ACCEPT JESUS AS LORD AND SAVIOR AND THEN READ THE BIBLE (TO HELP RENEW YOUR MIND), PRAY, AND REPENT OF ALL OF YOUR SINS...ALL OF THIS HELPS AND  ASSIST IN RENEWING YOUR MIND.  YOU CANNOT BE IN THE WORLD'S MODE OF THINKING OR HATE , DESPISE, OR REJECT GOD AND CHRIST AND EXPECT TO GO TO HEAVEN OR MAKE IT TO HEAVEN; THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN. ONE MORE THING; DON'T THINK YOU CAN CONTINUE TO HATE OTHERS OR HOLD ON TO GRUDGES OR CONTINUE TO BE REVENGE MINDED AND EXPECT TO MAKE IT  TO HEAVEN; THIS ALSO WILL NOT HAPPEN.

 HELL!

DOUBLE WORSE CASE SCENARIO:  YOU DIE WITHOUT GOD AND END UP IN HELL WHERE YOU ARE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT BY SATAN AND HIS DEMONS (IN EARTHLY TIME) WITHOUT REST, NO WATER, NO FOOD, NO SUNLIGHT (PITCH DARKNESS), NO COMFORT, NO HOME, NO COLD OR COOLNESS FROM THE EXCRUCIATING HEAT, NO REST FROM THE TORMENTS AND JEERING BY SATAN AND HIS DEMONS, NO TREES, NO FLOWERS, NO COOL BREEZES, NO BIRDS SINGING, NO CHILDREN VOICES, NO MUSIC OR BEAUTIFUL SINGING, NO LAUGHTER, NO HAPPINESS, NO PEACE, NO JOY, AND EVEN WORSE THAN ALL THIS, YOU WILL REMEMBER ALL THE TIMES ON EARTH WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR AND YOU REFUSED; YOU WILL ALSO YEARN TO GO BACK TO EARTH, NOT TO EXPERIENCE ITS COMFORTS, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS TO WARN THOSE THAT ARE STILL ON THE EARTH TO ACCEPT JESUS AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR SO THEY WON'T HAVE TO COME TO HELL. ALL OF THIS WILL HAPPEN, OVER AND OVER, WITH NO STOPPING OR CEASING FOR ALL OF ETERNITY. YOU WILL ALSO HEAR PRAYING IN HELL, AND YOU YOURSELF WILL PRAY FOR GOD TO HAVE MERCY ON YOU, FOR GOD TO REDUCE YOUR PUNISHMENT WITH AT LEAST SOME MEASURE OF RELIEF, YOU WILL PRAY FOR GOD TO GET YOU OUT, YOU WILL PRAY FOR OTHERS ON EARTH, BUT GUESS WHAT?  IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO PRAY AND YOUR PRAYERS WILL NOT BE HEARD; ONCE IN HELL YOU AND YOUR SOUL NO LONGER BELONG TO GOD.  THE JUDGEMENT WILL BE SET.

YOU WILL NOT, I REPEAT, YOU WILL NOT SEE YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, OR ANYONE IN HELL...THERE IS A POSSIBILITY YOU MAY HEAR THEIR VOICES BUT YOU WON'T SEE THEM; THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HELL IS PITCH BLACK.  YOU WILL HEAR THE SCREAMS, SCREECHES, WEEPING, WAILING, AND NASHING OF TEETH FROM THE EXCRUCIATING TORMENT AND PAIN EXACTED BY THE DEMONS AND POSSIBLY SATAN HIMSELF.  IF YOU THINK THAT HELL IS A PICNIC, THEN CONTINUE ON WITH YOUR UNREPENTANT SINS, UNFORGIVING NATURE, REJECTING GOD AND CHRIST, AND MAKING THIS WORLD YOUR GOD AND CHRIST!  AND YOU WILL FIND OUT IN A FEW SHORT YEARS WHAT A FOOL YOU ARE AND WERE. YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND OTHERS YOU KNEW MIGHT BE THERE WITH YOU, BUT THERE WILL NOT BE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM AS YOU HAD WHILE ON EARTH.

BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND YOU WILL BE SAVED!

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

-GARRY B. COSTON-

PROOF OF THE RAPTURE

WE, (CHRISTIANS, THE GODLY, AND THOSE WHO ARE SAVED BY THE SHED BLOOD OF JESUS), ARE NOT DESTINED TO WRATH, BUT WILL ESCAPE THE TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS AND OTHER HORRORS OF REVELATION VIA THE CATCHING UP OR RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH.  PROOF:

1 Corinthians 15:51-57:  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

FROM GARRY:  THIS EVENT HAS NOT HAPPENED YET IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH; IT IS YET TO HAPPEN AND WILL HAPPEN SOON!

1 Thessalonians 4:15-18:  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11: Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape! But you, beloved, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober; for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.

 Revelation 3:7:  "To the angel of the church in

write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ⁸I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. ⁹I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. ¹⁰Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. ¹¹I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. ¹²Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. ¹³He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Isaiah 26:19-21 - But your dead will live; their bodies will rise.  You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy.  Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead. 20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. 21 See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins.  The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.

One more point:  Wrath will be exacted upon a purely sinful and unbelieving world during the tribulation.  In the Bible, God makes it clear that wrath is reserved for the ungodly and not the Godly...so, Saved Christians who love, respect, obey, and acknowledge God, through his Son Jesus as Lord and Savior, and has been washed clean of their sins by the blood of Jesus Christ, will be raptured, caught up, or taken away to heaven before the awful events and tribulation of Revelation begins; Revelation 5:9 makes this clear and lays it out plainly:

Revelation 5:9 - for God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation (saving grace) through Jeus Christ our Lord.

Lastly, there will be some or most who were left behind after the rapture, who will know and be aware of what happened, and where the raptured Christians are, and will turn to God with all of their might and become truly saved; however, the sad thing is that they may have to die for their faith. So don't wait to turn to God whole heartedly, seek him now while he can be found because the world will be so evil, dark, sinful, and engrossed with the principles of the beast and satan, that it will be hard to get saved, turn to Christ, pray, or read the bible during the tribulation; satan's power will be so deep, dark and thick during that time that even the elect, or those who become genuine Christians will be easily deceived or led away from the faith.

'Garry'