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How About a Rapture Escape
Episode #755
5/23/2021
With Martha Kilpatrick and hosted by John Enslow
This the continuation of a series of podcasts started in Episode #754
I think it’s a big temptation especially when times are troubling and distressing to be looking for the escape.
John:
Joan reminded me that in the message Kiss the Son and when I was giving that message I start out the message and say, “I have a bun in the oven that the Lord has been developing for the last few days in repentance. And this is the message that came out.”
So, now if I look back, that was 2004, it’s a teenager now! It’s a teenage message coming out in a booklet. So, I’m excited. I’m real excited!
A bun in the oven back then and it was a bun in the oven. And really to work that message I went back and I was like going, “Wow, I’m a totally different person than that now.” And so, I had to re, literally re-work it into who I am now!
Martha:
Having conquered it.
John:
Um hmm. Yeah, yeah. It’s more on the…
Martha:
The victory side.
John:
…the victory side.
Martha:
Um hmm.
John:
Yeah.
Martha:
Well, here we are little, little lambs and I bless y’all. I do want to challenge you, if you will, take the challenge. I want y’all to help me find scriptures that declare the victory. Scriptures that equip you for disaster. Promises, I want you to help me find them. I’ve been astonished at what I have found. I want to know what you can find. I want you to help me write this book the “Won War.” I want you to go through your cards and your Bible and find those warring scriptures. I gave you some today. They are big promises, big solutions, and things already finished and done and ready and all we have to do is believe. So, you are to write this book with us. And if you get insights…
The Lord told us this is your ministry. The books are your ministry.
Sue:
I asked the Lord for a scripture for today and He told me to go to I Corinthians 4.
This is in the Passion.
It seems to me that God has appointed us apostles to be at the end of the line. We are like those on display at the end of the procession, as doomed gladiators soon to be killed. We have become a theatrical spectacle to all creation, both to people and to angels. We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ!
Martha:
That’s sarcastic.
Sue:
We are the frail; you are the powerful. You are celebrated; we are humiliated. If you could see us now, you’d find that we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and with no roof over our heads. We work hard, toiling with our own hands. When people abuse and insult us, we respond with a blessing, and when severely persecuted, we endure it with patience. When we are slandered incessantly, we always answer gently, ready to reconcile. Even now, in the world’s opinion, we are nothing but filth and the lowest scum.
The heading of this says, “The Father’s warning.”
I’m not writing this to embarrass you or to shame you, but to correct you as the children I love. For although you could have countless babysitters in Christ telling you what you’re doing wrong, you don’t have many fathers who correct you in love. But I’m a true father to you, for I became your father when I gave you the gospel and brought you into union with Jesus, the Anointed One. So I encourage you, my children, to follow the example that I live before you.
Follow.
That’s why I’ve sent my dear son Timothy, whom I love. He is faithful to the Lord Yahweh and will remind you of how I conduct myself as one who lives in union with Jesus, the Anointed One, and of the teachings that I bring to every church everywhere.
Martha:
I’m not looking at events. I’m not looking at piecing together what the scripture says and what’s happening out there because I thought it was happening before and it didn’t. So, I’m not looking there. But I am now looking for Him.
In one of the devotions, I think it’s Oswald’s recently, I think he said he knew a young man that was born again and he spent years studying the rapture, the coming of Jesus, the events and so forth and so on and then one day he sat with a woman who was waiting for Christ’s return because she loved Him. And he knew that he had been on the wrong page. She was looking for her friend, her companion.
I’m reading this book by Sparks called The On-High Calling and it’s incredible because he’s taking Hebrews and he’s how I knew the thing about Hebrews. And Hebrews is scary. There are five warnings, severe warnings in the book of Hebrews. It is a book of our preparation and Sparks says that book covers the entire NT, that one book.
I want to learn how to look for Him, for Jesus’ return and not for the rapture or for anything else. But to look for Jesus’ return. I want Him to show me how to look for Him because it gives us that command: Watch for His appearing. Wait for His appearing. At least four or five times that we are called to watch for him. And that’s what I want to do.
And I’m grateful that God has taken the farm and given it to the family; the family now has the farm. And I am free as I wanted to be. God achieved what I really wanted in His own way that blessed me and the family. And I believe in the end time this place will be where people can come for refuge.
John:
Here’s something out of what you’ve just said that I kind of gleaned off of it. I think it’s a big temptation especially when times are troubling and distressing to be looking for the escape; look for the rapture, look for the escape; look for the quickening. Poof! Yeah, there you go. It’s all over, yeah! Free of pain. No, that’s not the way it’s going to work. It’s going to be about Him, looking for Him not the rapture. Looking to Him, glorifying Him with your thoughts about it. It’s not about an exit, it’s about an entrance. It’s about a union.
And so, that encourages me because I can’t say that recently I haven’t had the thought “Yeah, I’d like a good rapture. I’d like a good old rapture right now. This would be a good time. How about just poof right here. That would be good.” But I wasn’t looking to Him. I wasn’t looking for Him. I wasn’t looking about Him. It was about escape. It was about let’s get the rip cord. Let’s get out of this.
Martha:
And you know one of the first things that is called for is to be awake. And I’m more awake than I want to be in the night. I going to try to just let the Lord have that for His purpose. But that’s one of the insistent words-be awake and alert.
John:
Have your focus, have your dead eye focus…
Martha:
Wonderful.
John:
…on what you are to be focused on. That’s being awake. If you’re awake, you’re focused.
Martha:
Yes.
John:
If you’re awake, you’re aware.
Martha:
You’re either in anxiety or you’re in prayer. That’s what I’m seeing from all this.
John:
So, I want the, I want it to be Him, focus Him, focus reason.
Martha:
Let’s make that a corporate prayer.
John:
Um hmm.
Martha:
Remember when we used to do nightwatches?
John:
Um hmm.
Martha:
Maybe we should start nightwatches again because He always came at two in the morning didn’t He?
John:
Or later.
Martha:
Yes, true. And I’m not complaining. I just want to be willing to wait for Him to come. So, I think maybe that would be the solution to our anxiety, our sleeplessness and our troubled spirit is to have a focus on Him to come and the Spirit.
Joan:
I was going to say I’ve kind of turned it into a little prayer. It’s Song of Solomon 5:2.
I went to sleep but my heart stayed awake.
A lot of the time I ask the Lord when I am going to sleep. Let my heart stay awake.
John:
Um hmm.
Joan:
Because somewhere in Psalms where it says…You know, He teaches us in the night.
Martha:
Um hmm. I think it’s this.
Joan:
I think if your heart is awake, He can. You can be asleep but our heart is awake.
Have encountered so many “bully” kinds of people and spirits in my lifetime and the scripture I stand on is from 2 Timothy 4:17…”But the Lord Stood with me and gave me strength.” He has been faithful every time to lead to victory in Christ. For Eternities Sake has become my battle cry!