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The Day of the Lord will be God’s hour to orchestrate His wrath for disobedience to His commandments. This measure of judgmental upset coincides with Jesus’ warning that nothing would survive, if He did not return (Matthew 24:22). Therefore, you can sense here that wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes are only minor compared to what is coming on a very, very large, destructive scale. Jesus has given us oil through the presence of His Holy Spirit, which has become our intuitive intelligence to be prepared, as we have been instructed. Oil is synonymous with preparedness. The Bible is not a cliffhanger. God has told us the end from the beginning. The anointing oil coming to us from the presence of the Holy Spirit, which is our Helper, gives us the understanding of the necessity to be ready for the arrival of our rapture. God has not kept the mystery of the Rapture from us; the Bible tells us Jesus could come at any moment His Father so chooses. We are to keep our light burning brightly from the oil of knowledge given to us by God's Holy Word. Do not let your lamps go out!
The Mount of Olives got its name from its numerous olive trees and olive oil presses. Jesus spent His last night there. What is the significance of that? In ancient Israel, olive oil not only served as fuel for lamps, but was also used for the anointing of kings and priests. An interesting thing about an olive tree is that it has to be cultivated to produce optimum fruit. To become prolific, an olive tree needs to be grafted. In horticulture, grafting is taking a good branch and making it grow on a smaller or different branch of the same variety. It was very common in ancient Israel to graft branches of good olive-producing trees to wild olive trees. Wild olive trees do not produce good fruit even though they have exceptionally large and impressive root systems. A wonderful reference here is the grafting in of the Gentiles with the Jews to become God's chosen people. "If the root is holy, so are the branches. But some of these branches from Abraham's tree, some of the people of Israel, have been broken off. And you Gentiles, who were branches from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So now you also receive the blessings God has promised Abraham and his children, sharing in the rich nourishment from the root of God's special olive tree,” Romans 11:16-17 NLT. Only God could have taken a wild olive tree, such as the Gentiles, and grafted them to a good tree and had its branches produce much more fruit. Glory to God! By faith in Him, we are counted as the "children of Abraham" (Galatians 3:7).
The Mount of Olives is a very distinguished place of significance in the Bible. It is not only the site where Jesus gave the Olivet Prophecy, or the place where He prayed to His Father before His betrayal, but it was also the site of Jesus’ Ascension (Acts 1:11), as well as the prophetic site of His return to Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:4). Glory to God! No wonder Jesus liked being on the Mount of Olives. The place reminded Him of who He was: a very special olive tree indeed; the light of the world. The olive trees produced oil, which rendered light for lamps in a dark world, and the precious oil of olives anointed kings and priests. "Then spake Jesus unto them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life," John 8:12 KJV.
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Last Call for The Church
By Patricia C. McGlennon
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