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“…UNTIL THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES HAS COME IN. the

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Meet the conditions that Jesus spells out above and you will be ready for the paradigm shift that is
coming-perhaps sooner than you think! Take careful notice of what Jesus says about this to-be-raptured
church that He is coming for prior to the beginning of the “hour of trial” which is coming upon the whole
world as a test. Jesus says to His church at Philadelphia,

“FOR YOU HAVE A LITTLE STRENGTH…”
So much for high-minded concepts of “The Joshua Generation” and “Joel’s army” being the latter-day
,overcoming church in the tribulation! The book of Acts tells us how the church began with GREAT
strength; but when it goes out, it will have but “a little strength.” Like John the Baptist, the church must
decrease in order that Israel may increase. This is a refutation of the cherished idea that the church is
going to be the recipient of the outpouring of “the latter rain.” God is going to fulfill every word of what is
stated in the Book of Joel, but not by means of the church! After the rapture, God is going to pursue His
Jewish people, and He clearly states that He intends to use Jews to reach Jews:

“DO NOT HARM THE EARTH, THE SEA, OR THE TREES TILL WE HAVE SEALED THE SERVANTS OF OUR GOD
ON THEIR FOREHEADS. AND I HEARD THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO WERE SEALED. ONE HUNDRED AND

FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND OF ALL THE TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE SEALED.” Rev. 7:3-8

The above verses go on to enumerate that 12,000 were sealed from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Further on in Revelation we are given this amazing testimony of the 144,000 while they were on the earth:

“THEN I LOOKED, AN BEHOLD, A LAMB STANDING ON MT. ZION, AND WITH HIM 144,000, HAVING HIS
FATHER’S NAME…144,000 WHO WERE REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH. THESE ARE THE ONES WHO FOLLOW
THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES. THESE WERE REDEEMED FROM AMONG MEN, BEING FIRSTFRUITS TO GOD

AND TO THE LAMB. AND IN THEIR MOUTH WAS FOUND NO GUILE, FOR THEY ARE WITHOUT FAULT
BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD.” Rev. 14:1-5 excerpts

The 144,000 witnesses are not members of the present cult, Jehovah’s Witnesses (as they claim), neither
are they members of an overcoming “Joshua Generation” church in the tribulation. They are
“THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL!” as the Scriptures plainly state. Here is the significance: prior to the
coming paradigm shift from the church to Israel, we find that God’s witness on earth is indeed the church.
Jesus states it plainly “…you shall be witnesses to Me…to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8). After the
paradigm shift heralded in by the rapture of the faithful Gentile virgins of the church, we are given the
above prophetic look at another set of God’s virgins, the 144,000 taken from the 12 tribes of Israel. God
has changed from the church being His witnesses to the 144,000 Jews! A paradigm shift has occurred.