What if It WERE Today the Messiah Would Come?

         What if it WERE today that the Messiah would come?  What will be the order of events?  First of all, there would be the trumpet sound coming from the heavens announcing to the world that He is near.  There won’t be a rapture of so-called believers from the world.  There will be the announcement that there will be no doubt to the entire world that He is here.  Then the heavenly hosts will do battle with the army of Satan.  This battle is supposed to take place in the valley of Megiddo in the Middle East, however, the fact is that this battle could be world-wide as well.   My guess is that the heavenly hosts could very easily surround the globe with the Messiah being in Jerusalem and that in fact, the battle will be swift and sure.  No one will escape from the army of Satan including Satan himself.

            In order for the Messiah to set up His one thousand year reign of Peace, Satan and his army HAVE to be removed from this world.  And just who will belong to this “army of Satan?”  It will NOT be unbelievers, as many would suggest.  In fact, belief has nothing to do with one’s salvation as long as one believes in the sanctity of human life and one recognizes God as creator of ALL human life and that human life is then sacred.  So, only those who have purposely taken human life will make up the army of Satan.  These along with Satan himself will do battle with the heavenly hosts and Satan and all those who have taken human life with lose this battle.  Now, some have asked me if this means that the Messiah and the heavenly hosts will kill those who have taken a human life.  Only God can take a human life and since the Messiah is the Son of God and He will reign with the authority of God, it can be assumed that He will kill those who make up the army of Satan.

            As to how the Messiah will rid the world of the army of Satan and Satan himself is something I do not know.  Jesus could very easily have the power to just simply remove those from the world who are guilty of murder.  Those who have committed suicide will not be in the world anyway.  I define murder as saying that life begins at the very instant of conception and anyone who has then purposely taken a human life from that point forward is guilty of murder.  These people will then make up the army of Satan who will do battle with the heavenly hosts when the Messiah comes.  My guess is that there will be at least one angel per every person who has taken a human life and the Angels will ALL win.

            Now as for the dead in Christ rising first, I would say that those who have died who have NOT taken a human life will be the first to be judged.  The living will be judged and then the dead in Christ will rise from the dead to join the living.  Those who are dead who have taken human life will be judged along with the army of Satan and in one swift movement, it will all take place perhaps even in a twinkling of an eye.  The fact is that the Judgment of God will take place at what Revelations calls the Bema seat of God where ALL humanity both living and dead, will be judged and since God is God, many have been judged already, but only God will know who will live and who won’t be in this world any longer.

            I have been asked if I have any ideas as to when this will occur.  I can only guess.  The Angels told me in 1993 that we are in the period known as the Period of the Great Tribulation.  I can guess that the Tribulation Period has been divided in half each period lasting about eight years.  Then I could say we live in the 1335 days of Daniel.  What I don’t know is exactly how long each half of the period is and whether the time mentioned in Daniel are 1335 literal days or if the period mentioned has some other meaning to the readers of Daniel at that time.  I can only guess. 

            If my scenario would be correct, which I would think the odds as being astronomical, then I could say that I have an idea as to the date as to when the Messiah would come.  But I am going to keep this to myself since I do NOT know when this will take place.  The only thing I can say is that maybe the Mayans knew something that has only been revealed to us today.  I don’t know for sure, but my thinking is that when I watch the world and observe all that is happening in the world, the only word I can say is, “Maranatha.”  Come Lord Jesus, because I don’t think the world can take many more arrows from Satan’s arsenal.  Peace.

Brother Ralphie for The Angels of Life Institute