The Time Is Closer Than ANYONE Thinks – The Time Is Up!
9/7/24 8:26 PM
Rich Fyke
Eternal Life Ministries
This message was completed on September 7, 2024.
I also have this on YouTube as well, with the same title:
youtu.be/-C85IRvnLZs?si=bFAyc2F-JcYbkUf7
This message on YouTube coincides as well:
youtu.be/tY8bdPnqLwM?si=K57yu8fFgF_yYE9P
Oct/Nov/Dec 2024
"Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life" (I Timothy 6:19).
The Time Is Closer Than ANYONE Thinks – The Time Is Up!
There is a time of trouble and tumult coming to this nation sooner than ANYONE thinks! The time is now — a terrible time of tumult coming faster than ANYONE thinks — even His servants. No one is ready for it. The Lord has called His chosen, and put in line and placed in positions His people — where He wants them to be. He is going to set things in order –set things straight. We are to rest in Him. This time is coming faster than anyone thinks! It is racing as a torrent — like a lightning bolt spread through the sky — a sword of judgment — a day of reckoning! As a mighty rushing wind, He is going to visit this nation. It is due a habitation and there will be a visitation. The time has expired for warnings to go out to this nation — time has run out.
The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof. Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth” (Psalms 97: 1-5).
And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south” (Zechariah 9: 14).
What I feel The Lord is saying in the message above is that, the judgment — the cataclysm — the devastation — the depth of destruction — that is coming — is going to be so overwhelming — so catastrophic — that even those that thought they were prepared — will not be. It will leave them in shock. Now, having said this, I want to stress, that The Lord says to REST in HIM.
Never have I felt that The Lord was speaking so strongly about the things that are coming and the shortness of the hour as has been over the last few months. Starting June 22nd with the message above to several more recent messages towards the middle of August, The Lord has been speaking to me that time was coming to a rapid conclusion. The ends of the world are upon us. We are told in 1 Corinthians, “Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come” (1 Corinthians 10: 11). The Apostle Paul wrote this about two thousand years ago. How much closer are we now!
Upon speaking this to me, The Lord led me to Psalms 22, to which I recognized as being a chapter that gives us a prophetic glimpse of the crucifixion. At the time, I was trying to reason how this could relate to the ends of the world being upon us. If we look at verse 8, it says, “He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him” (Psalms 22: 8). The Psalmist David spoke this many years before the actual crucifixion. Many years passed before this prophecy came to pass — but come to pass it did. We see in the account in Matthew of how the chief priests, scribes, and elders railed on Jesus while He hung on the The Cross, “He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God” (Matthew 27: 43).
We can see how this was a clear fulfillment of the words prophesied by David a thousand or so years prior. This, and other passages in Psalms 22, as well as many other Books of The Old Testament, clearly show — in minute, specific detail — the first coming of the Messiah. The Lord was saying that — as sure as this Scripture came to pass — so will all of Scripture come to pass. All The Scripture will be fulfilled — including that which speaks of the second coming of Christ and of the ends of the world. There will be an end, and we are living in the end of the end times now! The end time scenario is accelerating!
Matter of fact, I feel that The Lord spoke to me and said that time is up! I’m not talking specifically about Christ’s Coming, for no man knows the day and hour of His return — but we are rapidly seeing the end time scenario unfolding — and it’s time to prepare because the hour is very, very late! Very dark days are ahead — as the sun is setting on this world — but we know that — at the end of the tribulation — Jesus will come and so shall we ever be with The Lord.
Upon speaking this to me, The Lord led me to Ezekiel Chapter 7, where He has led me so many other times in recent years:
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth. Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their’s: neither shall there be wailing for them. The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof” (Ezekiel 7: 1-12).
Just as God, through the Prophet Ezekiel, had warned Ancient Israel that their day of reckoning would come — and finally did — so is the days we are living in now. Most have anything on their minds, but their souls. The vast majority are unconcerned — thinking nothing will ever happen and life will go on as always. They feel time will go on forever — but it won’t! The call goes out, but many have their affections on anything but God:
“Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper” (Luke 14: 16-24).
Scripture tells us, “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5: 3). Further, it tells us, “For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night” (1 Thessalonians 5: 7).
So many have their eyes shut, and this includes many in the churches who insist trouble and tribulation is for somebody else.
Time is up, brothers and sisters in The Lord! There is no time left for playing with God, “And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises” (Hebrews 6: 11-12).
There is no time left for grudges, “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men” (Romans 12: 18).
There is no time left for unforgiveness and bitterness, “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4: 31-32).
We need to be in prayer like we have never prayed before — seeking The Lord with everything that is within us, “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5: 16).
Time is short, brethren. There is very little time to prepare — very little time to get close to Jesus Christ — very little time to ask The Lord to give you the strength to withstand the onslaught and persecution that is coming!
Make your callings and elections sure.
Blessings to you all in The Name of Our Wonderful Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen!
