GET UR TICKET !

WOULD YOU EVER LOCK UR HOUSE UP, STOP THE MAIL AND NEWSPAPER FROM BEING DELIVERED, PACK UR SUITCASES, SAY UR GOOD BYES TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS, DRIVE TO THE AIRPORT, PAY FOR LONGTERM PARKING, CHECK UR LUGGAGE, AND SIT IN THE TERMINAL FOR A FLIGHT TO VACATION LAND, WITH OUT HOTEL RESERVATIONS, AND WORSE YET WITHOUT UR TICKET TO EVEN ARRIVE AT UR DESTINATION ?

I WOULD HOPE THE ANSWER TO THIS SARCASTIC INQUIRY IS NO, OF COURSE NOT!

WELL THEN, WHY ARE WE DOING IT WITH OUR SOULS ?

IN THE EXACT SAME FASHION THAT WE NEED TO MAKE EARTHLY PREPERATIONS FOR TRAVEL, WE MUST ALSO FOLLOW SUIT FOR OUR ETERNAL TRAVEL.

1Co 15:52 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.

THE CHURCH HAS BEEN REFERRING TO THIS GREAT DAY AND EVENT SINCE CHRIST ASCENSION UP INTO HEAVEN SOME 2000 YEARS AGO. IT'S SUCH A MAJOR EVENT THE SAME PAUL THAT TELLS US ABOUT IT IN I CORINTHIANS, MAKES MENTION OF IT AGAIN IN (1 THESS 4:16).

WE OF COURSE COMMONLY REFER TO IT AS THE RAPTURE, THOUGH THAT IS NOT A BIBLICAL TERM. BOTH THE SAVED AND UNSAVED ALIKE ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM AND THE EVENT.

MAINTAINING OUR FOCUS, LETS REVISIT THE PREMISE OF SHOWING UP TO THE AIRPORT WITHOUT A TICKET. THIS IS NOT ONLY FOOLISH BUT ALSO A GREAT WASTE OF PRECIOUS TIME.

NOT ONLY WILL U MISS THE PLANE , BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY U WILL ALSO NEVER REACH UR DESTINATION.

WHY IS THE DESTINATION MORE IMPORTANT THEN THE FLIGHT ?

THAT'S DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE FLIGHT IS MERELY THE MEANS TO ARRIVE AT THE GOAL, BUT THE DESTINATION IS THE GOAL, AND MOTIVATION FOR THE FLIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING THE CHURCH IS FAR TO CONCERNED ABOUT SIMPLY READING AND QUOTING THE SCRIPTURES, AND NOT FOCUSED ON TRULY LEARNING AND LIVING THEM.

WE MUST STOP SOLELY FOCUSING ON THE MEANS AND BEGIN FOCUSING ON THE GOAL. THE WORD IS THE MEANS, BUT HEAVEN IS THE GOAL.

IN OUR EFFORTS TO BECOME BIBLE SCHOLARS AND ACQUAINTED WITH THE WORD, WE BECOME SEPERATED FROM IT'S PRIMARY OBJECTIVE WHICH IS TO GET US FROM HERE TO THERE.

SAINTS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE RAPTURE AND HEAVEN AND THEY ARE NO MORE EQUIPPED FOR THAT JOURNEY THEN THE PERSON AT THE AIRPORT WITHOUT THE TICKET.

READING AND QUOTING SCRIPTURES, WITHOUT A LIFESTYLE TO BACK IT UP IS AKIN TO STARING AT PLANES ALL DAY BUT NEVER BUYING A TICKET.

WE MUST BEGIN TO RIGHTLY DIVIDE THESE WORDS OF LIFE, AND STOP THINKING THAT CHURCH ATTENDANCE, TITHE PAYING, AND OFFERING GIVING IS ENOUGH TO GET YOU TO HEAVEN.

NO MORE THEN FOLLOWING ALL OF THE AIRPORT RULES IS ENOUGH TO GET YOU ON A PLANE.

MOST CHRISTIANS ARE FOLLOWING THE RULES, BUT NOT BEING GENUINELY CONVERTED, TRANSFORMED, OR RENEWED. THAT IS MERE RELIGIOUSITY, NOT PREPERATION.

HAVE YOU EVER READ IN THE SCRIPTURES WHERE ANY PROPHET, PREACHER, APOSTLE, PRIEST, OR GOD HIMSELF EVER INSTRUCTED US TO BE RELIGIOUS.

WHEN JESUS RETURNS WILL YOU BE LEFT ON THE GROUND IN CHURCH LIKE THE ONE IN THE AIRPORT WITHOUT THE TICKET WHEN THE PLANE TAKES OFF ?

WE'D EXPECT THE PERSON AT HOME TO MISS A FLIGHT, BUT NOT AT THE AIRPORT, WELL HOW WORSE OFF IS THE ONE THAT IS IN CHURCH, NOT AT HOME AND STILL MISSES THIS FLIGHT.


Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,

NOTICE IT STATES DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, NOT LACK OF WORD. THE CHURCH IS FULL OF WORD, AND SCRIPTURE QUOTERS, BUT STARVING FOR KNOWLEDGE.

GOD AND THE PROPHET MAKE IT PLAIN HERE THAT WE WILL BE DESTROYED FOR OUR LACK, AND REJECTION OF KNOWLEDGE.

THE LACK IS SIMPLY A REFUSAL TO STUDY AND APPLY OURSELVES, AND NOT REQUESTING WISDOM.

THE REJECTION IS BECAUSE THE WORD IS AVAILABLE, AND WISDOM IS ACCESSABLE.



2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: EVERYONE ONE TALKING ABOUT THE RAPTURE WON'T RIDE IT.

PREPERATIONS MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE, OR RESERVATIONS WON'T BE IN YOUR NAME.

WE MUST MATURE FROM SIMPLY KNOWING GODS WORD, TO KNOWING GOD.

THIS WORD MUST BE HIDDEN IN OUR HEARTS, BRANDED IN OUR MINDS, AND LIVED THROUGH OUR ACTIONS.

THERE WILL BE MANY SITTING AT THE CHURCH JUST LIKE THE AIRPORT, AND ARE
GOING TO MISS THIS FLIGHT, BUT UNLIKE THE AIRPORT, WE CAN'T CATCH THE NEXT ONE OUT.

INSTEAD OF JUST GOING TO CHURCH LETS BE THE CHURCH, FASTING, PRAYING, STUDYING, TRANSFORMING, RENEWING, AND PREPARING SO U CAN GET UR TICKET NOW !




I PRAY GOD'S PEACE N MERCY B UPON U AND URS !



G-TEP aka K.J. DUMPSON