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THE
END TIMES
A Time of Trouble
 What
does the Bible say?
by:
Pastor Max Solbrekken
GOD
SPOKE TO ME ~ WARN MY PEOPLE
THE END TIMES ARE NEAR - TO
PREPARE FOR A TIME OF TROUBLE
"And
I saw a great white throne,
and Him that sat on it, from
Whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away; and there
was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and
great, stand before God;
and the books were opened; and
another book was opened, which
is the book of life; and the
dead were judged out of those
things which were written in
the books according to their
works and death and hell were
cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death. And
whosoever was not found
written in the book of life
was cast into the lake of
fire." (Revelation
20:11-15)
THE
CHURCH IS GOING TO EXPERIENCE
'A BAPTISM OF SUFFERING'
We
are presently standing on the
threshold of a New Day! The
end times, a time when the
Church of the living God, the
bride of Christ will soon be
raptured. The rapture,
the second coming of Jesus
Christ is near. But even
sooner, the Church will go
through a 'Baptism of
suffering'! A BAPTISM SUCH AS
WE HAVE NEVER BELIEVED
POSSIBLE IN NORTH AMERICA AND
THE FREE WORLD.
WHAT
WILL HAPPEN WHEN JESUS CHRIST
RAPTURES THE CHURCH?
When
Jesus Christ the Lord raptures
the Church in what is called
'The Second Coming of Christ',
we will then, take our place
with those who have fought the
battle and won, who have been
diligent to the very end and
made it through victoriously;
triumphing over evil,
unrighteousness and
wickedness!
We
will come out of the
"furnace of
affliction" with not even
the smell of fire on our
persons, the ropes of bondage
burned off and a testimony so
powerful for our Lord
God that no one will be able
to repudiate!
We
will then be a part of that glorious
church without spot and
wrinkle that will be presented
to our Heavenly Bridegroom by
the Blessed Holy Spirit, at
the Marriage Supper of the
Lamb when Jesus Christ returns
to rapture the church.
The
Bible says, "Let us be
glad and rejoice, and give
honour to Him: for the
marriage of the Lamb is come,
and His wife hath made herself
ready". (Revelation
19:7)
In
other words, the bride was not
ready until a certain point in
time, when she decided to
prepare for the marriage
ceremony!
THE
LAODECIAN CHURCH IS NOT READY!
Jesus
warned concerning the Seventh
and Final Church Age. The
word, Laodecian, means
"The people rule or power
to the people". How
indicative of the age in which
we live! The Democratic
process means
"government; by the
people, of the people, and for
the people". Even the
so-called Socialistic and
Communistic regimes espouse
the doctrine of the
proletariat, the Peoples'
Republic, etc.
In
the Church, we also see people
ruling: popes, cardinals, and
archbishops, ruling without
the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is missing in
many Protestant churches are
they are totally devoid
of God's blessings as the
people rule - electing, hiring
and firing pastors and other
church leaders in the
democratic process!
WE
ARE DEFINITELY LIVING IN THE
END TIMES
We
are living in the end times,
facing war, world conflict and
distress and are awaiting the
second coming of Jesus in the
Rapture.
Jesus warned the final Church
Age with these words, "And
unto the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write; These
things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of
God; I know thy works, that
thou art neither cold nor hot:
I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor
hot, I will spew thee out of
my mouth. Because thou sayest,
I am rich, and increased with
goods, and have need of
nothing; and knowest not that
thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and
blind, and naked".
(Revelation 3:14-17)
The
invitation, however, is always
there. "I counsel thee
to buy of me gold tried in the
fire, that thou mayest be
rich; and white raiment, that
thou mayest be clothed, and
that the shame of thy
nakedness do not appear; and
anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest
see."
GOD
SPOKE TO ME ~ WARN MY PEOPLE
THE END TIMES ARE NEAR - TO
PREPARE FOR A TIME OF TROUBLE
Approximately
1 year ago, the Lord God spoke
to my heart, "Warn My
people to prepare for a time
of trouble", the
beginning of the end times.
I
began to preach powerful
sermons on end times,
the rapture, the second coming
of Jesus and repentance.
I preached powerful sermons on
faith, what to expect as the
end times unfold such as the
coming judgments. I
preached on the importance of
being prepared and balanced in
the Christian walk. God gave
me powerful sermons
called 'Victory in
Adversity'.
In
the message 'Victory in
Adversity', I tell of the 3
times God gave me powerful
sermons - a message for Canada
and just recently, the fourth
time, with the warning of 'End
Times ~ Coming Troubles'.
The
first time God spoke to me
with a message for the nation
of Canada was in July 1967. I
shared it by printed page in
"The Cry of His
Coming", and also
over our national radio
broadcast. The sermon
was called, "A SALUTE
TO CANADA". Canada
was celebrating our 100th
birthday as a nation and God
showed me Canada as a great
nation with His rich blessings
upon us. We were a nation of
freedom, opportunity and
plenty, but that if we did not
repent of our sins and humble
ourselves before God, we would
lose our greatness, and much
of God's favor.
I
quoted the scripture,
"RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A
NATION, BUT SIN IS A REPROACH
TO ANY PEOPLE." (Proverbs
14:34) Our magazine with
the Centennial Year Message
"A Salute to Canada"
was sent to all the elected
officials across Canada, civic
officials (large cities),
provincial officials and
national governments of our
nation.
I
immediately received many kind
letters from government
officials thanking me for the
sermons. One person who
responded very warmly and
enthusiastically was the
Justice Minister of Canada,
Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
The
years passed and the young
Justice Minister became our
15th. Prime Minister.
Pierre Trudeau seemed to be
leading the nation in a
dangerous leftward trend. Some
of his policies that caused
deep concern were 1) abolition
of capital punishment. 2)
broadening of the Divorce
Laws. 3) legalizing
homosexuality, lesbianism,
& bestiality. 4)
legalizing abortion (not on
demand). 5) seeking to
legalize marijuana.
He
then called an election!
GOD
SPOKE TO MY HEART TO BRING
ANOTHER MESSAGE
TO THE NATION. IT WAS CALLED,
'MY MESSAGE TO PRIME MINISTER
TRUDEAU'.
I
sent the message "My
message to Prime Minister
Trudeau" out in
booklet form by the tens of
thousands across Canada and
other countries. A copy of the
booklet as well as a cassette
tape was sent to the mayor of
every large town or city in
Canada, the MLA in each
province, every member of
Parliament and all heads of
major nations across the
world, both free and
Communist. A copy of the
message was also sent to the
Queen of England, the Pope of
Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
I
received many complimentary
and kind letters from leaders
across the world. Only one
person however, refused the
cassette and booklet. Prime
Minister Edward Heath of Great
Britain, returned both with a
covering letter stating that
he could not accept them.
I
was stunned that such a
reaction should come from a
Conservative PM of so-called
Protestant England!
I
conferred with my wife Donna
and our office manager,
Margaret Graham. Sister Graham
asked if I wanted to give her
a letter to the Prime Minister
of England! I said, "NO,
I will wait for a more
opportune time"! We
didn't have to wait long.
Within a few months, Edward
Heath called a snap election
to increase his seats in
parliament and gain a
majority. Everyone seemed to
think that he would win, but I
KNEW DIFFERENTLY!
I
summoned Sister Graham into my
office for a letter to Edward
Heath. Here is the substance
of that letter (which I still
have on file)
"When
you refused and returned the
cassette and booklet of the
Gospel Message, "My
Message To Prime Minister
Trudeau," you did not
reject my words or my letter,
Mr. Prime Minister, you
rejected the Word of God, the
Message of Jesus Christ and
God's Warning to the Nations.
"IF
YOU WILL REPENT OF YOUR SINS,
GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU. However,
if you do not repent and
register this action in a
letter to me, I know that you
will be the recipient of God's
judgment for your actions.
Furthermore, I prophesy that
you will not gain a majority
in the forthcoming election,
but you will in fact lose the
election and go into oblivion
politically. Your days of
political power are numbered,
Mr. Prime Minister.
God's Servant, Max
Solbrekken
THOUSANDS
HEARD ME MAKE THE PUBLIC
STATEMENT
I
began to make known what God
had shown me. In our crusades
and privately as well, I
shared the tremendous
revelation of God's
displeasure with those who had
rejected the message I had
delivered as His servant, to
Government officials across
the world.
I
declared publicly to thousands
of people that God had
revealed to me that because
the Prime Minister of Great
Britain had rejected this
message, God had rejected him
from being Prime Minister.
My
statement was that if Mr.
Edward Heath did not lose that
Election, they would never
hear me preach again!
THAT
IS HOW CERTAIN I WAS OF MY
ABILITY TO HEAR THE
HOLY SPIRIT - GOD'S
VOICE.
Jesus
said, "My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and
they follow me." (John
10:27)
As
the election drew near, more
and more people were
reasonably sure that PM Edward
Heath would gain the majority
he was seeking. During my
crusade in Trinidad, West
Indies we heard the news of
the Great Britain election.
Rev.
Dennis White, who later became
the Superintendent of the
Pentecostal Assemblies of the
West Indies, was
chauffeuring me around the
Island. I had just spoken at
the West Indies School of
Theology, where he was
president. I saw a small
corner store and said, "Dennis,
I wish to purchase a paper; I
want to see how badly Mr.
Heath has lost"! He
replied, "Are you
kidding, why would you make
such a statement"?
EDWARD
HEATH LOSES THE ELECTION IN
GREAT BRITAIN
The
headlines screamed: "POLITICAL
UPSET. IT'S A CLIFF HANGER;
IT'S A TIE."
I said "Dennis,
tomorrow, we will read,
"Edward Heath loses the
Election"! It
happened exactly as I had
stated! The date was February
28, 1974.
THE
SERMON GOD GAVE ME - WHAT WAS
IN THE MESSAGE?
Although
the message God gave me was
called, 'My Message to
Prime Minister Trudeau',
it was directed at all
government leaders instructing
them to repent of their sins
and let God rule in their
lives and in their decisions
as leaders.
I
wrote of King Nebuchadnezzar,
who became proud of his
accomplishments and said, "Is
not this Great Babylon, that I
have built for the house of
the Kingdom, by the might of
my power, and for the honor of
my majesty". (Daniel
4:30)
GOD
JUDGED KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR
AND HE LOST HIS MIND.
For
seven years, the great king
wandered about like an animal
and ate grass as an oxen until
he acknowledged God. In the
message, I told of KING HEROD,
who made an oration. They said,
"It is the voice of a god
and not of a man".
The scripture says, "He
gave not God the glory and God
smote him until he died eaten
of worms"! (Acts
12:23)
When
Prophet Samuel entered
Bethlehem, THE CITY ELDERS
trembled in fear of God: "...And
the elders of the town
trembled at his coming, and
said, Comest thou
peaceably?" (Sam.
16:4) Oh, how government
officials need to tremble
before the servants of God
again, in order to bring back
righteousness and sanity to
the nations.
"BLESSED
IS THE NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE
LORD"
(Psalms 33:12)
St.
Paul spoke to KING AGRIPPA and
challenged him with the
glorious Gospel of Jesus
Christ. The scripture says
that Agrippa cried out, "...Almost
thou persuadest me to be a
Christian". (Acts
26:28) Again, when Paul spoke
to FELIX the Governor, he
trembled because Paul spoke of
"Righteousness,
temperance and judgment to
come"! (Acts 24:25)
The
Bible says, "Righteousness
exalteth a nation and sin is a
reproach to any people".
(Proverbs 14:24) Again, God's
Word declares, "When
the righteous are in
authority, the people rejoice:
but when the wicked beareth
rule, the people mourn".
(Proverbs 29:2) "Blessed
is the nation whose God is the
Lord". (Psalms 33:12)
CANADA
- IT'S TIME TO TURN AROUND
It
happened in the spring of
1978, in Kelowna, British
Columbia. I was awakened at
8:00 AM, the morning after a
powerful meeting. The voice of
God had been speaking to my
heart while I was sleeping.
The message of God was already
in my mind, totally
comprehendible and ready to
deliver.
I
awakened with the words, "Canada
Turn Around, Canada Turn
Around, CANADA COME BACK TO
GOD," whirling
around in my Spirit. So
powerful was this impression
that I leaped out of bed,
grabbed my Bible and note
paper, and wrote down the
message which I knew God
wanted me to deliver across
the nation and around the
world.
Canada
turn around, come back to your
senses! Come back to God and
righteousness, decency and
reality!
I
began to preach sermons,
declare and dispense this
message of end times, God,
Rapture, Holy Spirit and
repentance across the nation;
in crusades, by printed
material, on television and
radio. I must confess that the
impact of that crusade was
stunted somewhat by two
things.
I
was unable to get Canadian
people to understand the
importance of this message
enough to support it
financially. Also, due to 3
hastily called elections, I
was unable to have some of the
National and Provincial
government leaders appear with
me on the television program,
as they had originally
intimated they would do!
WHAT
WAS THAT MESSAGE THAT GOD GAVE
ME TO DELIVER?
The
message was a warning
from God's Word for everyone
to repent of their sins and
begin to live Godly lives in
the light of the scriptures
and to begin to seek God with
great intensity, honesty,
sincerity and urgency.
Everyone
should know that we are living
in the final stages of the
last days, end time of God's
grace upon the earth and that
our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ
is coming again real soon!
The
Bible says, "If My
people, which are called by My
name, shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked
ways; then will I hear from
heaven, and will forgive their
sin, and will heal their
land." (2
Chronicles 7:14)
GOD
PROMISES TO HEAR YOUR PRAYERS
AND HEAL YOUR
LAND IF YOU DO THESE FOUR
THINGS
God
spells out directions for a
Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit,
heaven sent revival! Here is
the recipe: If God's people
will do four things, God
promises to hear our prayers
and bring healing to our Land.
What are these four
things? Are they pinnacles of
spiritual growth, never to be
reached? No, God would not ask
us to do what we could not
attain in the natural. He is
not unreasonable. The Bible
says, "Come now, and let
us reason together, saith the
Lord: though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow; though they be
red like crimson, they shall
be as wool". (Isaiah
1:18)
WE
CAN DO THESE FOUR THINGS:
1.
Humble Ourselves
2. Pray
3. Seek God's Face
4. Turn from our wicked
ways
The
Bible says, "God
resisteth the proud and giveth
grace to the humble".
SEEK
YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD
We
must look to God for help -
not to ourselves, government
officials, business leaders,
educators or others. Jesus
said, "Seek ye FIRST the
Kingdom of God and all these
things shall be added unto
you". (Matthew
6:33)
We
can and must HUMBLE
ourselves and get rid of
all dirty, filthy, sinful
pride as we reach out to love
everyone regardless of skin
color, racial background,
educational or social standing
or financial worth.
And
the scriptural way to humble
ourselves is to fast. We must
realize that we cannot save
ourselves or heal the hearts
of people in our strength. God
is our source. He is the
Saviour & Deliverer!
Let
us begin to PRAY to God on a
regular basis as we praise Him
for His love and grace.
God wants us to make our
petitions known to Him FIRST
before we ask our fellowmen
for help.
King
Asa was diseased in his feet
and went to the physicians for
help instead of praying to the
Lord. The Bible says, "Asa
sought the help of the
physicians and died". (2
Chronicles 16:12) It is
not wrong to seek help of
physicians so long as you have
sought God first and have laid
out your petition to Him
first.
It
is God who rules in the lives
of men. Let us not forget
that. That is why St. Paul
stated, "Pray without
ceasing". (1
Thessalonians 5:17)
What did he mean? Stay in an
attitude of prayer. Keep your
lines of communication open
between God and yourself!
ONLY
GOD CAN HEAL OUR LAND!
We
can and must pray and go even
further. Let us SEEK GOD
with all our hearts. In order
to seek God, we must walk
close enough to Him to see His
face and feel His power.
To
seek God means to desire His
presence. To want to be near
Him and share all our intimate
and urgent needs with Him. And
to spend time praising and
thanking Him for all His
goodness to us!
By
God's grace, let us all TURN
AWAY from the lusts of the
flesh and the sins of the
spirit and conduct ourselves
as true followers of Christ in
all humility and
righteousness. We have His
promise that when we, the
Church, have done these
things, then God will hear our
prayers and answer in great
demonstration of Holy Ghost
power.
The
Bible says, "Let the
wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteousness man his
thoughts: and let him return
unto the Lord, and he will
have mercy upon him; and to
our God, for He will
abundantly pardon".
(Isaiah 55:7)
"Be
ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath
righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with
darkness?" (2 Corinthians
6:14)
"Having
a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof:
from such turn away." (2
Timothy 3:5)
TURN
YOUR FACE TO THE WALL
When
King Hezekiah became ill, the
prophet came to him with a
message, "...Thus
saith the Lord, Set thine
house in order; for thou shalt
die, and not live".
(2 Kings 20:1) The scriptures
tell us that King Hezekiah
turned his face to the wall
and "wept sore"
(v.3) as he repented and asked
for mercy. God heard his
prayer and gave him an
additional fifteen years of
life.
Whatever
problem you may have, God is
greater than all the power of
the devil and sin. He is
greater than sickness,
disease, fear and poverty!
Praise God forever!
The
solution comes when we turn
our faces to the wall and ask
Jesus to intervene! His Word
states, "And call upon
Me in the day of trouble: I
will deliver thee, and thou
shalt glorify Me".
(Psalms 50:15)
It's
high time to surrender to the
Lord's Word and will. "...turn
yourselves from your idols;
and turn away your faces from
all your abominations."
(Ezekiel 14:6) "...and
how ye turned to God from
idols to serve the living and
True God." (1
Thessalonians 1:9)
The
Bible says, "Let the
wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his
thoughts: and let him return
(TURN) unto the Lord, and he
will have mercy upon him; and
to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon".
(Isaiah 55:7)
SHOWDOWN
AT SUNSET
God's
people had corrupted
themselves with idol worship
from the greatest to the
least. Only ELIJAH and a
faithful silent group of 7,000
who had not bowed their knees
to Baal.
The
prophet Elijah was grieved in
his heart and brought down
God's judgment upon that
wicked nation in the form of a
drought. After 3 1/2 years,
ELIJAH showed himself and
COMMANDED all the false
prophets to gather on Mount
Carmel for a showdown.
This
was his challenge, "...How
long halt ye between two
opinions? if the Lord be God,
follow him: but if Baal, then
follow him".
God's
Word says, "My people
have committed two evils, They
have forsaken Me, the fountain
of living waters, and hewed
them out cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no
water". (Jeremiah
2:13)
God
- in His great wisdom and
compassion - marveled at the
foolishness of His people.
It's almost ludicrous that a
man who knew God would forsake
Him, turn away from the true
God and be deceived by the
devil into worshipping dead
idols. This was the case with
Solomon when he became old! (1
Kings 11:1-10)
How
anyone could leave the Church,
the Gospel and the goodness of
God, with it's fountain of
living water and be turned to
dumb idols, sinful practices,
lustful pleasures, greed and
the doctrine of works, I WILL
NEVER KNOW! For these are no
more than broken cisterns that
can hold no water, NO PEACE,
NO JOY, NO FORGIVENESS, NO
HEALING AND NO PROMISE OF
ETERNAL LIFE!
The
Bible says, "...In Thy
presence is fullness of joy;
at Thy right hand there are
pleasures for evermore".
(Psalms 16:11)
The
answers to man's perplexing
questions and the riddles of
life, are found only through
Jesus Christ our Lord and in
His Divinely Inspired and
Sacred Word, The Bible. On
Christ the solid rock I stand,
all other ground is sinking
sand."
WE
MUST PREPARE OURSELVES FOR A
TIME OF TROUBLE
We
are living in the End Times -
The rapture of the church is
near. A large segment of
the Christian community seems
to be living under an illusion
that the rapture of the church
will take place before anyone
tastes even a little bit of
difficulty and tribulation!
LET
ME SAY CLEARLY THAT THIS IS AN
ABSOLUTE FALLACY
AND UNSCRIPTURAL TEACHING!
At
the onset however, let me
clarify that I believe in a
pre-tribulation rapture and
that the Church of Jesus
Christ WILL NOT go through the
Great Tribulation, written of
in the Book of Revelation.
In fact, there are three
Tribulation Periods spoken of
in the Bible.
THE
FIRST TRIBULATION - The
first tribulation began on the
day of Pentecost and the devil
has been tribulating and
persecuting the Church ever
since. The first
tribulation period will
conclude when the last gentile
is saved by the precious blood
of Jesus Christ, and Jesus
Christ returns in the first
stage of His coming.
THE
SECOND TRIBULATION - The
second tribulation is that
period of seven years known as
"Jacob's Troubles"
or "Daniels 70th
Week" and the second
tribulation is also known as
the "Great
Tribulation". The
second tribulation will begin
the moment Christ's bride is
taken away from this earth and
will conclude just before the
beginning of "The
Millennial Reign of
Christ". This will
be a time when God out pours
His wrath on the Ant-Christ
and a wicked world.
THE
THIRD TRIBULATION - The
third tribulation begins when
the feet of Jesus Christ stand
on the Mount of Olives in the
second stage of His return.
(Zechariah 14:4). The
resurrected glorified Son of
God and Savior will then mount
a white horse (Revelation
19:11) and ride out to the
Valley of Jehosophat, to
conquer the Anti-Christ.
This I refer to as The
Anti-Christ's Tribulation.
Jesus
Christ will destroy the
Anti-Christ with the breath
his mouth.
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