A BRIEF
PERSONAL   BIO


By Gavin Finley

EARLY PILGRIMAGE

I am an Australian evangelical Christian of pre-millennialist persuasion. I grew up and received my schooling back and forth from Australia, Canada, and the USA. My salvation came at the age of 14 at a Bible Camp organized by men from Highlands Community Church in Renton, Washington near Seattle. It was one of the Independent Fundamentalist Churches of America. Pastor Wallace Wilson and a wonderful circle of friends at the church were all a great influence in our lives. We still keep in touch with some of our friends there 40 years later.

I returned to Australia in 1965 and studied at Trinity Grammar School and Balwyn High School in Melbourne. My studies then took me on to the University of Melbourne Medical School on a Commonwealth Scholarship. I graduated in Medicine in 1973. During those years our family was part of the East Kew Baptist Church in Melbourne. I was also a member of the Evangelical Union at Melbourne Uni.

It was during the early 70's when I was in medical school that my pilgrimage took me into the Holy Spirit renewal. This revival had come across to Melbourne from New Zealand. A dental student friend, Judy Brabham, invited me to a Tuesday night meeting held in an Anglican Church. It was called Melbourne Outreach Crusade. I had never seen anything like it. The movement gathered in many seeking hearts during those early days. God called out His people and filled them with His Presence in many wonderful ways. The Charismatic Renewal was a genuine move of God back in those days. Unfortunately the movement has subsequently been taken over by Mammon and seriously compromised. But back in the early 70's it was like spring rain falling on a dry and thirsty land. I saw many people wonderfully saved and blessed. These were exciting times. Many hard bitten evangelicals, grimly hanging onto their faith, as I myself was, found ourselves swept up into this Holy Spirit renewal. And it came just in time. In my case I had been on the verge of spiritual burnout. Suddenly we found ourselves in a serendipity, even an Emmaus experience. Somebody was walking alongside us. He brought us His encouragement and His cheer. He provided us with some fresh oil for our dim and flaring lamps. The Holy Spirit was present with us, recharging our flagging spirits. What a joy that was! Through it all I found myself infused with a new level of faith in Jesus Christ I had never experienced before. In spite of my many shortcomings and failures I found myself drawn into a deeper walk with God.

In 1975 after a year of internship at the Repatriation Hospital in Melbourne I took off on a round the world trip. The first leg of that trip took me back for a visit to the USA. That was quite a memorable segment of the journey. I visited old friends from the church in Renton, Washington I had not seen in over ten years. It was also memorable for another reason which I will explain shortly.

WALKABOUT IN ENGLAND AND EUROPE.
AND A STINT AS MISSIONARY DOCTOR
IN THE HIMALAYAN FOOTHILLS OF INDIA.

From the USA I went on to England where I worked at the Royal Northern Hospital in London for a while. After some travels in Europe I contacted the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship in London. Soon afterwards I was on my way to India. I spent a few months serving as a missionary doctor in Mussorie, U.P. up in the Himalayan foothills. During the mornings I did rounds and assisted in surgery. In the afternoons I worked in the TB clinic. Most of the Tb patients were Tibetan refugees from a place called "Happy Valley". They had come across the mountains into India to escape the ravages of Mao Tse Tung's Cultural Revolution.

I had some memorable experiences in India and then later up in Nepal. On one occasion a few of the missionary kids from the Christian high school decided that they would collar me and that we would take a little backpacking trek together up into the Himalayan mountains. We loaded up with some medical instruments and medical supplies and set out.

I had trouble keeping up with them. We went into remote areas where there was no road access at all. As soon as we entered a village the word would get out and hundreds of people would gather around. They would bring us their sick. We stopped and gave whatever sort of treatment we could provide. We saw a lot of people and did what we could with what we had. One of them was a little boy who had fallen over a cliff two days before. His little head was covered with old dried blood and he had a high fever. The flies swarmed around him. We bathed and dressed his head wound as best we could, gave him an injection of penicillin and gave his father some antibiotics to give him. Then we hiked on to the next village.

On that little excursion I came to understand Eastern Mysticism (or pantheism), and "Karma" in a way that I won't forget. At that time the Maharishi Yogi was wowing the Beatles and millions of westerners with the alleged virtues of Eastern Mysticism. It may well have sounded real good in California, and especially after a couple of puffs of marijuana and some oriental music. But I was here in the Himalayan mountains. I was seeing Eastern Mysticism, Buddhism, and Hinduism right at the very source. The picture I was seeing up here was anything but good.

Here is an example. We came to one village and heard some disturbing news. A young woman had just died. Apparently she had endured a complicated childbirth a couple of days before. The newborn baby was ok. But the childbirth had been complicated by a 'retained placenta'.

The relatives could have done something about this. After such an event the natives of Africa will put their family member on a litter and carry them a hundred miles if need be. They will take them straight to the nearest mission or government hospital. But here in this land beyond the Indus River a great spiritual darkness brooded over the people. The young woman was judged to have 'bad karma'. The spell of death had been cast. Nothing could be done. And she was going to die.

Eastern mysticism has within it a spiritual poison that cripples the will. (A trip to Calcutta will drive this lesson home in a hurry.) A spirit of inevitability hangs over the land. So in the case of this young woman with her retained placenta nothing was done.

Of course she went on to develop sepsis. She died a couple of days after her baby was born. This woman, hidden in the folds of the Himalayan Mountains, had in effect been judged by the spirits of the area. She was considered to have "bad Karma". Now she was paying for her sins in a previous incarnation. Nothing that anyone did was going to change that. So she was left to die.

I shall never forget that woman. Even today when I hear the familiar strains of eastern mysticism which says in effect "everything is relative" and "whatever will be will be" I stop. And I remember that woman.

In such moments the revealed Word of God we have been given in the Holy Scriptures becomes more dear to me than ever. I see our Lord Jesus going out to look for that one lost sheep. I see Him reach down and draw sinners up out of a horrible pit and clean then up. I see Him sending the pilgrims forth on that great journey of faith and discovery. It is in such moments that I realize that we as Christian believers are greatly blessed and highly privileged human beings.

We have been given a ton of information from the holy scriptures. We are being wooed by a gracious and eternal God who has sent us His Holy Spirit to comfort and to guide us. He has big plans for us. Most of us have only responded to a small portion of His salvation message.

In such times I realize what a rich and wonderful inheritance we have in our God. He throws open a treasure chest before us. It is full of His jewels, of faith, hope and of love. No one is cut off. No one is deserted or abandoned. No one is left behind. This is the character of our God. The Good Shepherd goes out even on a dark and cloudy day. And he finds His lost sheep.
Every last one of them will be found!

In those times when I begin to realize His goodness towards us and I begin to thank Him the Presence of His Holy Spirit becomes more precious than ever.

When I returned to the mission hospital from that little jaunt up into the Himalayan foothills I found that I was in a spot of bother. The higher powers had heard about our little excursion. Officers of the Indian Army were there at the hospital to meet us. Apparently we had not been given authorization to do our medical service in those lost valleys up there in the mountains. Fortunately the matron of the hospital, an Anglo-Indian lady, was there before them with her hands on her hips as it were. She was speaking to the army officers in Hindi in fiery tones, apparently on our behalf. The heated interchange went on between them for some time. Finally the soldiers withdrew.
I never heard any more about it.

On the way back to Australia I stayed at Dilaram House in Kathmandu. This was a way station with a Christian outreach to lost and sick hippies. There were lots of them in India back in those days. I was glad to be there. During those last two or three days in India before I flew out I had to take to my sleeping bag with a fever and the usual G.I. symptoms of the tropical zone.

A SOUTHERN BELLE; AND A RETURN TO THE LAND OF THE PURITANS.

It was during that year of "walkabout" that I met somebody
very special. During my trip around the USA I had stopped
by to see some old family friends in Mobile, Alabama.
Dr. Sid Phillips' daughter Mary happened to be home from college at the time.        
I had not seen Mary for 16 years. She is a southern belle from Mobile, Alabama.
To make a long story short I ended up staying a bit longer than I had intended.

I had first met Mary when we were both 11. Our family had come down from Canada on a summer vacation. We had driven down into the deep south from Toronto and we stayed with the Phillips family for a few days that summer. I had noticed Mary during our visit. Her dad was a family doctor in a town near Mobile, Alabama. He was interested in the Civil War and his hobby was digging up artifacts on old battlefields using a metal detector. This photo shows us all gathered around a cannon from that era as we are about to leave. Mary is the blond girl 4th from the right with the white blouse and blue shorts. The guy on the left looking in her direction is yours truly. At the time this photo was taken we were saying our good-byes. I would not see Mary again for another 16 years.

Our families had known each other from friendships dating back to the war years. Mary's dad, and his Marine Corps buddy had been in the 1st Marine Division at Guadalcanal during World War 2. They had come to Melbourne in Australia for 'rest and recreation leave'. The two marines had been more or less "adopted" by my mother's family. A lot of lasting trans-Pacific friendships had been made back in those days. That family tradition was destined to continue.

Mary and I found it increasingly difficult to forget one another. The following year I called her on the telephone from Australia. We were married a few weeks later in Mobile.

We spent our first three years together in Australia. I was in family practice at the time. We went to some interesting places to do locum work. I would relieve country doctors who needed a break. On those assignments I had to do everything including family practice, casualty/ER, and obstetrics.

We returned to the USA in 1979. I did my anesthesia residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. What a wild place that was! It was the first hospital that I have ever worked in that required its own police force. After residency we moved to Slidell, Louisiana for seven years.

Since 1988 we have lived on the Florida Gulf Coast. Our two older children now grown, are out on their own pilgrimages. The youngest, Ruthie, is a Down Syndrome child and is at home with Mary and I. She is our special little girl. She loves Christian praise and worship music. She always brings a level of cheer to our home. She enriches the lives of all who come to know her.

SOME DISCOVERIES IN BIBLE PROPHECY.

In the late 80's we moved to Pensacola where we attended the 'Family of Believers' Church. Pastor John Havener believed in that old Pilgrim ethic, the "priesthood of all believers". Those present in services were given freedom to share in the Holy Spirit. This was a refreshing change and a time of healing. I have not seen anything like it since.

About that time I found myself drawn back into Bible Prophecy. This had been an interest of mine since I was saved at age 14. I had wondered about it even back then. Like many evangelicals I read Hal Lindsay's book "The Late Great Planet Earth" when it came out in the 70's. Some of the elements of the Pre-Trib Rapture story seemed ok. Other parts just didn't ring true to the scriptures. They just didn't "sound right". But in the 80's I was a busy man with a family and a medical practice. I had little time to pursue such seemingly arcane and obscure matters. So I put the whole issue of Bible prophecy on a back burner.

Things started to come together for me in the early 90's. I read Marvin Rosenthal's book "The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church". After seeing the straightforward way in which he read the scriptures and then laid out the various end-time events on a timeline I was encouraged to handle the scriptures in the same way. I delved back into the Bible with renewed interest. I discounted all that I had heard in the evangelical church tradition and tried to put the various pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together according to the scriptures as faithfully as I could myself. Pretty soon the true picture began to take form quite clearly. And I was staring the truth in the face. I was a bit flabbergasted. The picture that was emerging from the Bible was quite different than what I had been taught in church. And yet I was convinced that it was correct.

The devotional aspect of eschatology is something that has become increasingly apparent to me in recent times. There is a divine romance between God and His covenant people. It is only going to get more wonderful. As we enter the arena of the latter days of this age we are going to be making some mind-boggling discoveries. And we are going to enter into a depth of relationship in God that will be unexpected and magnificent.

So end-time truth is not just a matter of "head-knowledge" for religious nerds. Nor is it just an intellectual or theological matter for the seminary. We get to know the cosmic Christ, the Creator and the One who came as Immanuel, which means "God with us". God is the protagonist here, and He is the One who draws us. This is a wooing, a devotional matter of the heart. It is the divine romance. This is a relationship issue. And it goes to the very core of our being. The days to come will reveal just how much we are willing to let God woo us us into the wonders of His Kingdom.

In recent years I found myself drawn into a deeper study of the history of Israel and Church history. I have spent 25 years on a study of Daniel's prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. The lunar cycles are an astronomical timepiece Bible scholars have not yet used to measure out the seventy weeks of Daniel. So using the lunar cycles as well as the solar passage of years I was able to confirm the remarkably accurate work of 19th century Scotland Yard Inspector Sir Robert Anderson. He described his discovery of the 69 weeks in his book 'The Coming Prince'.

In recent years I have also been interested in the Seven Feasts of Israel. Four of them have been fulfilled. Three are yet to unfold into world history. It was in some musings on the subject of the yet to be fulfilled Fall Feasts that I made a rather startling discovery. I had looked into the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement as possibly emerging into holy history as waypoints into and out of the 70th week of Daniel. Did these next two upcoming feasts actually "stake out" the final seven years of this age? When I checked it out astronomically using data from the U.S. Naval Observatory and the the Hebrew calendar the results of my calculations blew me away. It was a perfect fit! The two feasts seven years apart measured out the 1260 + 1290 = 2550 days precisely, to the very day.

What might all of this mean? Well it would seem to indicate that the "Roadmap to Peace" will almost certainly end up being confirmed on Rosh Hashanah, a very auspicious day of the Hebrew calendar. It looks like the 7 year covenant of Dan.9:27 might be signed right on some future Tishrei 1. If the treaty is signed on this Hebrew calendar date for the Feast of Trumpets then this would certainly fit the theme of the feast. It would be an epic and awesome day pf blowing of trumpets. They would not all be trumpets of celebration of a New World Order. These would be trumpets of alarm and the calling of "all Israel", including the Church, to God's sacred assembly. The new moon of Tishrei, Tishrei 1, is not only the Feast of Trumpets. It is Rosh Hashanah, (head of the year), which is also a very auspicious day on the Hebrew calendar. It is the Jewish new year!

This upcoming 7 year Peace Treaty involving the national sovereignty of Israel is a huge deal prophetically. What is also very interesting is to see the religious spirits at work today trying to blow a smokescreen of religious disinformation over this issue. They are trying desperately to "cloak" Daniel 9:27 which prophesies a coming peacemaking false messiah. Of course Preterists and Dominionists are in a tizzy here. They are all working overtime to try to erase or obfuscate the message God is bringing us in this key Bible verse. This is absolutely amazing to see. And not a little bit spooky.

It seems that the terminus of the "Roadmap to Peace" in the Middle East will be a blockbuster covenant making day in future holy history. The prophet Daniel spoke of a 7 year covenant (or treaty), which would be 'confirmed' and signed for a contract period of one "week" or "seven" of years. (Daniel 9:27). Moses warned God's covenant people about this shady deal about 3.5 millennia ago. It is outlined for us in the 'Song of Moses'. Moses told us quite clearly the mischief God's covenant people would get up to in the latter days.

Jesus said much the same. He said that His people would receive 'another'. A false messiah would come on the scene. He would not come in the Father's Name but "in his own name". It seems that a certain peacemaker will emerge, probably in the midst of some future global crisis. He will enter into a sovereignty sharing, power sharing covenant with Israel, (and probably the G-7 nations as well). The treaty will be confirmed for a space of 7 years.

Will this peacemaking false messiah get things done? Oh yes.
Awesome events will surely be opening up in some future year. It is wise for every single Christian believer to at least be aware of this. Those who are wise will be as those wise virgins Jesus spoke about. They will make it their business to find the oil for their lamps against the coming night. Every Christian believer should seek the face of God and seek the fullness of His Holy Spirit. Because it is quite likely that these events will open up in our lifetime. In our present day laid back Laodicean Church many in our untested western church are spiritually unprepared for any trials or tribulations. Many will be offended. At the midnight hour they will not have the oil. And so they will face 'burnout'. Our apostle Paul spoke of a coming great apostasy, a coming 'Great Falling Away'. (2Thes.2:3)

Of course the Apocalypse, or unveiling, or revelation, of Jesus as Messiah might not come in our lifetime. But then again, it might. So God's covenant people need to know about these things. They need time to prepare their hearts for the epic end time witness should they be called upon to be a part of all this. Our Chinese brothers and sisters are not offended by this as we are. They take up their cross and embrace this truth daily. They are not offended by the call to witness, even if it does mean their lives are on the line. They love their Redeemer. And so in this devotion they keep themselves prepared. So why is this notion of preparation for witness this so strange to us? Have we been coddled too much by our merchant churchmen?

This awareness of end time truth is not a side issue. It is essential Christian education. It is, in fact, the basics! Going on with God in the preparation of the heart is very important and needful for us. It keeps us exercised in the faith. And this robust challenge to our worldly pre-occupations and mores is good for us spiritually. It helps us to stay Biblically focussed, on task, and spiritually healthy.

These are just some of the reasons why I took to writing and setting up this website. It seemed that this important matter of the witness of the saints in the latter days of this age is being skipped over and seriously neglected. It is simply not being addressed by the "post modern" or "emerging church". There is virtually no teaching on the 5th seal 'final witness' of the saints in the end time and how it leads on to the 6th seal and the Second Coming of Messiah. All too often the Way of the cross and these basic matters of blood covenant Christianity are regarded as "negative" or "irrelevant" by today's merchant driven church. The issue of blood covenant Christianity has been seriously, even critically, neglected.

Is the western Church going to need this end time info?
Well at some point in the future a group of saints is going to finish the race.
They will run the race on behalf of all the ones who have gone before us. (Heb.12:1)

Could they be us?
We had better believe it!

I began writing articles on end-time themes in the late 90's. This was just as the internet came along. Early on I wrote a short play entitled 'The Rapture Train Shuffle'. Another play was 'A Post-Tribulation Hammerlock'. Both of these plays are still unfinished. And as is my policy they are not copyrighted. If any sincere Christian believer is energized in these themes and would like to work on the stories I have opened up and wishes to finish these plays please email me. I have a whole pile of these sitting on the backburner. I will probably not get to these articles for months or even years. I feel like a miner who has struck the mother lode of gold or a thick layer of precious jewels. I can't possible mine all of this myself. Whenever a new "jewel" is uncovered in the scriptures it opens up more and more gems.

There are a host of these themes in need of development. I cannot find time to do even half of them. I lack the time. I also lack the talent as a writer to polish them up in the manner that they deserve. Quite frankly we need help from those of you out there who are committed to Jesus Christ and to Biblical truth and are also budding devotional writers.

The study of the Bible in the strict grammatical historical discipline of the evangelicals has led to many wonderful confirmations of the truth of God's Holy Word. In this vein I would highly recommend the wonderful work being done by some of my my friends and co-laborers.

They are
Tim Warner at the Last Trumpet website.
and
Richard Perry at the Last Days Mystery website.

There is a very important devotional side to the study of Holy Scripture. Meditations on biblical themes, or what is called 'types and shadows', has become an interest of mine in recent years. In the Bible we see recurring poetic themes running thoughout the Holy Scriptures related to the return of Jesus as Messiah. The Old Testament shows us a host of "types and shadows". These are continued in the New Testament, especially with parables of Jesus. He often presented "king parables" in a way of illustrating Himself in the role of "the returning king". In Hosea we see YHVH/God as the Husband of Israel, wooing His covenant people back to Himself even as the prophet Hosea wooed his wayward wife, lost Gomer back home again. The day would come when she would rediscover her love relationship with Him, even in the Valley of Achor, or valley of trouble and tribulation.

The romance themes abound in the Bible. In the the Song of Solomon we see the cosmic Christ visiting to His people as the absent Shepherd lover comes to the Shulamite and knocks at the door. Later, in Book of Revelation we see Him knocking again, this time at the door of the Church at Laodicea. (Rev.3:14-22) Our Messiah is 'the Beloved at the door'.

Quite clearly there is great drama in the divine romance at the end of the age. John saw the climax and consummation of it all. He saw the Bride, a City of God;s covenant people, the New Jerusalem, even a glorious city of 12 gates and built up of magnificent 'living stones'. All His jewels are pure having been tried in the fire. (Rev.21) The Holy City, the New Jerusalem was seen descending from heaven. John also saw the divine romance come to its splendid conclusion. And he saw the 'marriage supper' of the Lamb.

The deliverance aspect to the Second Coming of Christ is another truly inspiring theme. This deliverance is clearly laid out in scripture. And yet no one talks about it. Revelation 12 lays out the 'flight of the woman' in the last 3.5 years of this age. This is almost certainly a reference to the 'Bozrah' story mentioned in Isaiah and Micah. It is the place where Messiah pays a visit at the climax of the age. The wicked will be destroyed not only at Armageddon but also at Bozrah. Isaiah speaks about it in rather graphic terms. (Isa.63)

Quite clearly there will be an exile of the remnant Church or remnant Israel in the crucible of the Apocalypse. God's covenant people will be taken to Bozrah. In Revelation 12 we see that the woman, greater Israel, will be given the wings of a great eagle. (What country might be implicated here?) God's covenant people will be taken off to a place where they can be spiritually nurtured during the very same time period as the Great Tribulation. (Rev. 12:6 & 12:14)

This Bozrah business is obviously important information. But the flight to Bozrah and the magnificent Bozrah deliverance is virtually never addressed in our current Bible prophecy teachings.

All this high adventure, divine romance and epic drama is written down right there in our Bibles. It is world history written ahead of time by the finger of God. Holy history is a play. Even now the cast of characters is being readied to go up on stage. The final acts and scenes will be played out in latter days of this age. And we shall be there!

Here is the main burden as presented in this website.
For God's covenant people there can be no thought of 'abandoning ship' seven years ahead of time! We are the ones who have been called to witness. We are the ones who will finish the relay race of the ages. We run on behalf of our Saviour and on behalf of all the saints who have gone before us. A cloud of witnesses in heaven and on earth is watching us. They are on tip toes and full of expectancy. They expect us to run. They expect us to complete the race.
And so we shall!

When we study the scriptures there is no doubt about it. The Pre-Tribulation Rapture doctrine is a morass of confusing conflicting thoughts. It is clearly without scriptural foundation. According to the Bible there will be a Post-Tribulation Resurrection-Rapture. There can be no abandonment or 'skipping out' by God's Elect. The true saints of God could never do such a thing. We are the ones who will bring in the 5th seal 'final witness' on behalf of all the saints.

John, in the book of Revelation, tells us the story. The Ancient of Days will be holding court as we come to the end of the age. The Apocalypse is really a heavenly court case. The prophet Daniel and the Apostle John both saw the courts of heaven open and the Ancient of Days sit. (Dan.7:9-28 & Rev. 4-22) When the four horsemen, the four rulerships of mortal men, have all failed the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will turn to His saints. And He will begin calling for witnesses to His Christ. The end of those final seven years will see the 5th seal witness of the saints concluded. Then, after He pleads with the nations God will bring His final judgment on the matter. The Day of Atonement or Day of Reckoning, the last day of this age, will be followed the next day by the opening of the Day of the Lord. This will begin with the Judgment of the wicked. And it will be decisive. Our returning Messiah will then deliver His saints and judge the nations. Messiah will then bring this age to its epic and appointed conclusion with the establishment of His Millennial Kingdom.

So, contrary to what we have been told, we as Christian believers are vitally involved in these end time covenant proceedings. So we will be there! As a matter of fact we shall be up front and center! Whether we live or die in the witness is not the point. Jesus tells us that not one hair of our head will be lost. And so the whole issue of survivalism is a moot point. For true Christians the preservation of our flesh is not an issue. The survival of our flesh is totally and absolutely irrelevant. Because we serve a God who defeated death at the Cross.

These, of course, are basic blood covenant issues.
Indonesian and Egyptian Christians understand these things implicitly.
Most of us as Christians in the west are still carnal. So we do not understand.
At least not yet.

But we shall.

Our Savior is our Redeemer and our Deliverer.
YHVH-God's covenant people apparently mean a lot to Him.
"He lifts us up into heavenly places,
And His banner over us is love." (Song of Songs 2:4)

The Holy Spirit is bringing all these prophetic messages home to us today at an ever increasing rate. God is also speaking to His Elect by His Word and through the wonderful devotional poetic themes contained therein. We see this rich prophetic imagery interlaced throughout the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. Needless to say, all of this is very inspiring and exciting.

Presently I attend the Calvary Chapel at Gulf Breeze. We have a wonderful Old Testament teacher, Al McAlarney. When a roomful of people can sit down and get enthused about the Book of Numbers or Leviticus for a couple of hours you know something special is happening. Al's 'History of Israel' class is really a discovery tour into the character of God.

For those who are interested I hold to a traditional evangelical pre-millennialist belief. Here is my Statement of Faith.

Thank you for visiting the website. There is some tough meat here in places. But hopefully the romance and the adventure we are yet to enjoy in our God comes through in some of the writings. Much of it is written for my pre-millennialist pre-trib evangelical dispensationalist friends. My hope is that they will not be offended by the articles. But at some point they must appreciate the necessity of the end-time witness. And yes, the remnant Church/remnant Israel will become one single united remnant Elect, even a royal priesthood and a holy nation. Both will become one as Israel and the Church are tried in the crucible of the end time together.

Today's Christians are called to be the saints John saw. At some point we all must awaken from our slumbers in the ying and the yang of eastern mysticism. We must decide for ourselves just what our attitude is going to be to all this. Because in the fall season of some future year these 70 weeks of Daniel will open up again. And God's blood covenant dealings with His people will resume.

My prayer is that those who visit the website will be challenged in their faith.
May we all come to see our walk with God as the great adventure and the divine romance it truly is.

Grace and Shalom to all who love His appearing.

GWF

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