 Image from the TV series 'Beauty and the Beast'. 
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The tales of 'Beauty and the Beast'
have always been a perennial favorite
in the poetry, art, and literature of western Christendom.
It is a seductive psycho-sexual fantasy
entering from the beautiful side of great evil.
These sinister dream-scapes are now well established in the popular culture
through books, theatre, movies, and television.
Moses prophesied concerning the covenant people of God
as they came into the latter days. He clearly stated what would happen in
the
'Song of Moses'.
Jesus tells us much the same. He says that
the bulk of His people will forsake Him in the end.
They will desert Him and choose another, even a 'prince'
who comes to the woman of Israel and the Church
very seductively in the spirit of an insidious Luciferian selfism.
Oh yes, it is a story that goes back to the Garden and then on to Balaam
and continues on with the Nicolaitans in today's Church
who want to please the crowd.
It is a story of compromise and betrayal.
"I have come in my Father's name,
and you do not receive me;
This
'great falling away' or
'great apostasy'
explains how and why God's people
being drawn out of Israel, the Church, and the nations
will choose the ways of
Gomer
and so end up going through great tribulation.
They will be as
a woman in travail
before they finally embrace their true Prince,
the Holy One of Israel, Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach.
In spite of the great falling away and the encroaching darkness
there will be a magnificent
End-Time Revival.
There are those who will find the oil for the lamps
to light the way ahead and even a song in the night.
These
wise virgins will remain faithful to Jesus/Yeshua.
And after the midnight hour they
will be going out to meet the Bridegroom.
This is the essence of
the end-time drama.
It is a story of grand adventure and divine romance.
These, and other more glorious events, will then unfold
into history as this age comes to its appointed climax.
It was the prophet Micah who prophesied
that our Messiah would return as
'the Breaker".
When the Day of the Lord
opens at the end of the age He will
come back in a decidedly cosmic sort of way.
Right here on earth His coming will be seen and experienced
by mortal men.
He will pour out
His wrath on the wicked.
Evil angels (Ps.78:49) will be hovering over their own.
At the time appointed they will snatch up the wicked,
even as the tares are gathered first (Mat.13:30)
and bundled off for the fires.
Our Messiah will re-enter the time-space realm
and here on earth He will deliver
all His covenant people.
Our Messiah will be calling in to attend to some business north of Jerusalem.
He will be straitening a few things out
with the armies of the nations
over on the plains of Megiddo or Armageddon.
His actions will be seen from
Jerusalem and then out to the ends of the earth.
Most of Messiah's covenant people at that time will be
across the world
at a place (or places) referred to in Micah 2:12-13 as
'the sheepfolds of Bozrah'.
It will be there that the most magnificent story
of deliverance ever seen on this planet will take place.
We might call it the
BOZRAH DELIVERANCE.
We can put it in capital letters because news of this
glorious event at the end of the age
has either not been discovered or has been hidden
by our Bible teachers.
Dear saints, this is some encouraging Biblical truth.
The Holy One of Israel is not slack concerning His promises.
He will gather His Elect, just as He promised. (Mat.24:29)
This action of the returning Messiah
will happen "immediately after the tribulation of those days".
He will come back as a Deliverer just as He said He would in the
Olivet Discourse.
He will gather His people
from the four winds,
from both sides of Calvary at the
Resurrection-Rapture.
Immediately after the Resurrection
of the righteous dead He will "catch-up" or "rapture" His Bride.
His covenant people, His beloved remnant Elect,
will then be all together at last.
And they will be carried across the threshold
into a realm beyond anything that can be imagined.
His action in deliverance at that future time
will even surpass the wonder of
the former Exodus from Egypt.
This will be a deliverance more glorious
than anything ever seen before.
If another should come
in his own name,
him you will receive."
- John 5:43
It needs to be shouted about!
It is good news!
The church should hear about it!
October 2003
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Some more devotional articles on apocalyptic Biblical themes for the inquiring Christian. 
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