Apostolic Rock Church

Tampa, Florida

Many have preached these texts. But, for the most part, they have never been used to describe the endtime events of the coming Tribulation, and that is EXACTLY the woe they foretell. The watchman here is the endtime Apostolic Minister who understands the Post-Trib coming of Christ. As in the text, he is watching for the coming of the horseman of the apocalypse, and the message BABYLON IS FALLEN, BABYLON IS FALLEN [Isa 21:9]! Post Trib Ministers and believers have a different view of these Scriptures than the Pre-Tribs, Mid-Tribs, Pre-Wraths, and the Pan-Tribs, in that escapism (or a secret rapture), isn’t what these Scriptures are trying to bring out.

Post-Trib Ministers, by their very doctrine and stand on the endtime, are the TRUE WATCHMEN of the coming tribulation night. Following this night when NO MAN can work, cometh the morning of a new era, the Millennial. Yes, the night is drawing on and soon it will be far spent, but hallelujeh, the morning will break forth in joy at the appearance of our Lord and the arrival of the Millennial.

The text in Isaiah mentions the burden of "Dumah." Strong’s at #1745 renders this as "dumb." Paraphrasing this in Pentecostal language, Isaiah has a burden for the dumb, or those who are ignorant of the impending dark hour to fall upon Jerusalem, when the forces of Babylon would arrive at the gates. The Scriptures tell us that God’s people are "destroyed for a lack of knowledge" [Hos. 4:6]. In short, this is saying, they are destroyed because they are dumb, or ignorant, to events that make endtime spiritual living a crucial test of endurance and diligence against the coming forces of Mystery Babylon. Even now, these forces are at the Church doors. Isaiah reports that he had a burden for those who are dumb, who do not know of the approaching persecution of the Saints. The voice of God echoes down from the mountains of Seir to Isaiah. The prophet listens as he treads toward Jerusalem to take his place on the spiritual walls of Israel and begins his WATCHMAN CRY.

Take a look at these question and the picture becomes very clear:

1. Is the book of Isaiah really the cry of a WATCHMAN preceding the invasion of MYSTERY BABYLON? Answer: Yes.
1. Was Jeremiah also one of the WATCHMEN who cried that the forces of Babylon were coming? Answer: Yes.
2. Was there also a false prophet who said the forces of Babylon would not come and God’s people would not be persecuted? Answer: Yes.
3. Did Jeremiah wear a yoke to predict that Babylon would enslave Israel [Jer 28:1-15]? Answer: Yes.
4. Did the false prophet break that yoke and promise Israel they would escape? Answer: Yes.
5. Is it true the words of this false prophet are, in fact, the same as modern day nay-sayers, who report to the dumb and the ignorant, that before Mystery Babylon and the antichrist comes, there will be a secret rapture? Answer: Yes.
6. Is this the same battle today at the endtime of the Church age? Answer: Yes.

The conclusion is this: We are in a battle of Prophets even now. The Post-Trib Prophets predict the coming forces of Mystery Babylon against the Saints, while the Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, and other prophets are predicting a secret escape: known as the rapture doctrine!

Isaiah’s cry to the WATCHMAN of the NIGHT is to stay awake. The dumb are ignorant of the danger soon to arrive. Someone needs to stand guard to sound the alarm. First to awaken those who are dumb, and secondly, to warn those who have been deceived and told that evil will not come, that there will be a last minute rescue before Babylon forces come to the gates. The false prophets may challenge the Post-Tribs, but when the dumb see that the mark of the beast is here and they have not been quick-snatched out, their souls, like that of Hananiah who opposed Jeremiah, may be lost.

Why? Because they saw wickedness increasing, and Mystery Babylon being set up in Jerusalem, and they cried not to warn the people. They saw persecution building around the Church and morality decline to the gutter and they were quiet. They saw Jews and Gentiles in unity attacking Christ, the Gospels, the New Testament plan of salvation, and holiness standards, and still they were quiet. They saw homosexuality, lesbianism, and other sexual immorality forced upon the Church, and they were quiet. Instead, they wanted to defend dispensationalism (which is a trinitarian doctrine) and even defend their trinitarian fellowship. And they wanted to fight and defend Jewish apostasy, the depravity of the Babylonian Talmud, and a reinterpretation of the truth to accommodate these perversions, rather than preach the endtime doctrine of Christ.

The endtime WATCHMAN must not only cry in the night, they must be willing to suffer the arrogant taunts and accusations of false accusers. The Post-Trib WATCHMAN must awaken not only the dumb, the disgruntled, and the drunken; but woe as it may be, in the process they will also awaken the false prophets and the nay-sayers. These false prophets, some of them Oneness Brethren, will begin also to persecute the tribulation Saints, as predicted by Christ in Mark 13:8-27. If the tribulation WATCHMAN cries, the blood of souls is not on his hands. Nevertheless, if he cries not, THEN THEIR BLOOD is required of him [Ezk 33:6-8].

Post-Trib Ministers are the only true WATCHMEN of the night. Others are predicting a secret rescue, a last minute escape, a quick air ride to safety. They are teaching that God’s people are spiritually too weak to face tribulation and suffer persecution.

They teach that many will deny Christ and it will be God’s fault if he does not offer them a quick snatch. They say many will take the mark of the Beast and it will be all God’s fault if he makes them go through the time of sorrows, persecution, and tribulation. Because Post Trib Ministers have been crying and sounding the alarm, alerting the Church, of the fact: there will be no secret rapture. The dumb, the doubters, the dispensational false prophets, those who hate us, THOSE WHO ARE NOT WATCHMEN, no, nor indeed never will be, are attacking the WATCHMEN.

They are attacking the messengers on the wall. The Post-Trib Ministers are reporting that the Church will go through the tribulation and antichrist is coming to our doors; it is time to prepare spiritually and mentally; the mark of the Beast is coming; a great persecution is coming, first from close religious associates, then friends, and then relatives, and then from Jerusalem. The great whore of Babylon [restored Israel], has risen. Those who are not WATCHMEN, are laughing and telling millions to go back to sleep, because they will be quick snatched at a secret rapture. They are teaching that before the antichrist appears at our Church doors demanding we recant our belief in the saving blood of Jesus Christ that a secret ride to glory will take place. We will be demanded and commanded to accept and believe that Jews and certain Gentiles can be saved without any blood sacrifice or atonement whatsoever.

Many are already preaching that Abraham’s covenant has saved the Jews, not the Covenant of Christ. They are already teaching that it is God’s faithfulness to the Jews that gives them unconditional eternal security, and not the Jews’ faithfulness to God.

Already, many dispensationalists are teaching and preaching, that because of unconditional eternal security, and the elect, preselected before they were born and before the foundation of the world, that Calvary was unnecessary, and that Gentiles are saved by forgiveness unassociated with the shed blood of Christ.

They are teaching that God’s faithfulness alone will save Jews, not the blood of Christ. They are teaching a bloodless salvation for Jews and Gentiles in many Oneness Churches and the doctrine is catching like wildfire. They preach acts 2:38 is NOT ESSENTIAL. This is the trickery by which they preach a bloodless salvation. Instead of the blood being applied in water baptism and the cause of the remission of sins, they have a bloodless salvation when they deny water baptism. Until water baptism is performed by faith according to Acts 2:38, there is no blood applied to a person’s sins or life.

To claim salvation by the blood without the blood being applied, is indeed a bloodless salvation: spiritualized. This spiritualization is far worse than the false teaching of spiritual communion or the serpent seed doctrines. Spiritual bloodless salvation is a false doctrine. Trying to claim the work or EFFECT of the blood of Christ through forgiveness in a spiritualized method and approach, is antichrist. Yet we argue on the manner and essentialness of baptism and miss the entire strategy of antichrist, which is a bloodless salvation. Satan doesn’t care what the tenants of a person’s beliefs are, as long as they include a bloodless claim to salvation. PROPHETS OF GOD stand up and quit you like men.

Preach the blood of Christ and the remission of sins according to Acts 2:38. Identify the doctrine of a bloodless salvation as is being preached by modern liberals. Sound the alarm, come with us on the wall. Be a WATCHMAN of the night. Help us reach the dumb, the ignorant, the sleepy, the disgruntled, and those who have been deceived.

A portion of the text of Isaiah 21:9: "BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN," is repeated verbatim at Revelation 18:2. Isaiah is seeing a Church in the endtime. He is seeing WATCHMEN of the Church in the endtime. WHAT OF THE NIGHT he cries. We Post-Tribs know the answer. When the night comes we cannot WORK anymore. Evangelism will cease. Church doors will be shut. Altars will no longer receive sinners. Songs of praise and worship will not fill our Church houses. For in that dayand in that time, NO MAN CAN WORK. Persecution along with the mark of the beast, will single us out from the world’s millions. When we refuse to recant and deny that Jesus is both Messiah and God, they will hunt us down and persecute us. When we refuse to confess and admit the Jews can be saved without Christ, we will be tracked down and tormented. When we refuse to deny and recant the WORD OF GOD, and refuse to accept revived Judaism and Law-keeping, we will be stalked and persecuted.

All things are pointed toward a final sacrifice of Apostolic Christians. Many Pentecostals claim they are Apostolic but the times will come to try them and see if they really are. Revelation 6:9-11 will be fulfilled. How many Apostolics are willing to be the ones who must also suffer, as these under the altar, and fulfill prophecy? Those who are not spiritually prepared to endure this time of great hatred upon the Saints, will turn upon God’s people and betray them to death.

The anointing has gone forth by Prophets of God preaching separation from the world. A number of prophesies have gone forth:

1. That great persecution is rising against the true Apostolic Ministers and believers;
2. That we must die out to self until our will merges with the will of Christ for the endtime.
3. That love of the Saints among themselves will be perfected by those things that we suffer.
4. That we are to be nonviolent toward all men.
5. That we must witness and preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, and not the gospel of organizations, denominations, or other independent groups.
6. If we will do these things, we will not be lost. God will impute to us strength, to overcome in that hour by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB and the WORD OF OUR TESTIMONY.

The Spirit speaks expressly, that when the hour of tribulation descends upon the Saints, we are to know them that labor among us. We must not fellowship those who have become our adversaries or those who rise up against our Ministers, God’s Prophets, or the Saints. During that time, we must not endanger the lives of our Ministers, our children, families, and friends, by fellowship with those who hate us [even so-called Apostolics]. The Spirit has told us that a betrayal spirit of Judas will fill many hearts, even within our very own households. Those who shared and had part of our Ministry will pick up their heels against us. Loyalty and honor to the Ministry will drop to an all-time low.

Out of this will come the wheat, the cream of the Church, those tried in the fire of persecution, and they will come forth as gold. When the lines of separation have been fully drawn, and those who believe the Apostolic Truth are totally separated unto the Lord, then the Spirit has said there will be an endtime Revival, but it will not be among those who seek to destroy leaders of the Post-Trib Apostolic Church. Once this is accomplished, the sheep that were scattered will be gathered. The tares and goats will be gathered and separated before the last day revival comes. We are in that mode, in that transition, at this very moment. The separation is occurring even now.

Attacks against God’s Post Trib Prophets and Saints has already begun. The sorting out and the coming together of those with kindred spirits is now taking place. While the love of many waxes cold, the love of God within his true Apostolic People is drawing us into a fellowship, that cannot be stopped by organizational walls and independent cliques. God has raised up a number of Apostolic Ministers to spearhead the cry of alarm. God has blessed our Post-Trib Prophecy Conferences. More Truth is preached at these meetings than in many Pentecostal Conferences.

I am happy to announce that Post-Trib WATCHMEN are on the wall and they are on duty. Are we well received? Well ask yourself what natural response comes from someone who is sleepy and not wanting to get up? Ask yourself if those drunken in the night can understand the cry, let alone be able to stir themselves out of their stupor? Ask yourself if those prognosticators of the ‘any-minute escape doctrine,’ are happy about being embarrassed and discovered as false because the Post Trib WATCHMEN see the enemy on the horizon, and they do not.

They will call for the goon-brigade to attack the WATCHMAN on the wall, because he is "allegedly" scaring the people. These want to calm the fears of the people, and what better way to do it than to tell the people to go back to bed and sleep the night away, God will deliver them and hold the enemy at abeyance until the quick-snatch occurs.

You will find some traits in true Post-Trib WATCHMEN on watch. These are: integrity, diligence, endurance, achievement, and protection. Let me illustrate these if I may. Integrity—Some men interpret integrity within the narrow paradigm of their own existence or that which does not conflict with the codes of conduct of friends. Integrity is not being a Pentecostal Police or one man inquisition. Post Trib Ministers seek integrity based upon a Scriptural foundation, not that of society, a religious organization, or even independent ministerial cliques. True Post-Trib Ministers are a level above all these snares. They have a hunger and a spirit to seek Godly relationships with those who are in the endtime move of God for the present hour.

They seek not their own, but others. They seek not profits, but Prophets. They do not seek pride, but the prize. The test of integrity in simple terms is this: Is the consciousness of their own uprightness supported by Scripture? If a man cannot depend upon himself to be true, why should others entrust their souls to his leadership or instruction?

The highest action of a person of integrity is crucifixion of self glory. A man of integrity will never listen to any plea, cry, or accusation against the Post-Trib WATCHMEN on the wall. Christ said that in the endtime, the true Prophets and Believers of God would be hated. Don’t select your friends based upon the influence of others. Post-Tribs stand tall for truth and are not afraid to speak out on vital issues of our time. They do so to save souls, not to see whom they can destroy.

The Post-Trib WATCHMEN are men of integrity, simply because of the fact they are steadfast in Apostolic doctrine, so that others can trust their cries in the night to be true and with love.

They are not afraid of mockery or being slandered. They know this comes with the territory. They are not novices looking to rub shoulders with some big boys in hopes of open pulpits and handouts. They do not run the highways name-dropping and stirring up hatred. Perhaps one quality forbids this trait, that of dignity. A Post-Trib WATCHMAN has the spirit of an eagle and finds no kinsmanship in the gatherings of turkeys. Their labor is never in despair and they do not blame others for their failures. If duty calls today, they are on the job until God sends a relief. Post Trib Ministers are not men of ease, they are workers that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

They do not seek the praise of big crowds, the lofty seats of esteemed pulpits, or to be camp meeting, conference, and convention speakers. They choose rather to be skillful pilots of human lives, and they are loved by those who have been saved from storms of life by tender mercies, just in time. Post Trib Ministers are in the minority. They have been laughed at, persecuted, and even black balled by those out of touch with the mind of God. They have had to bear unhappiness and misfortunes but conquered all these with courage.

A Post Trib Minister is not a quitter. He will work alone or with others who share his revelation of the endtime. But he will not cast his pearls before swine, just for the sake of saying "Boy’s I really laid it on them, didn’t I."

Endurance is not a quick escape of duty or avoiding danger to save one’s own neck. It is manifest in the truth, "I will go with you until the end." Endurance in marriage is precisely that quality of unfailing and uncompromising love until the end, whatever the struggle or misfortune.

Without love for Christ, there will be no commitment to endurance even against sin, let alone the persecutions that may come during the tribulation night.

They do not measure their achievement in driving to meetings in a new Mercedes, and wearing expensive clothes. They may not live in two hundred thousand dollar homes and have large holdings of stocks. Some may live on the poverty line and others live by faith on a paltry tithe, that the big boys would turn tail and run from, because of the self-sacrifice it would demand of their heart, mind, and soul.

Achievement is not just pie-in-the-sky mentality, but the real satisfaction of doing for God on the backside of the vineyard what those near the highway wanting to be seen, refused to do. Post Trib Ministers may not please the inspection of the Pentecostal Police, but they get the job done. They are on watch to achieve not only the will of God, but to also help others strengthen their spiritual walk with God.

Protectionism and isolationism are not weaknesses, they are common sense. We use this in marriage relationships to exclude all others. Why make a ruckus against Men of God, who to preserve God’s Bride, refuse to "include" men in their fellowship because they "exclude" themselves by not contending for the true Apostolic Doctrine? Post Trib Ministers who are not ashamed to preach this truth, have had guns shoved in their faces, they have been mistreated from the pulpit, and they are attacked by novices trying to earn rank and recognition with their rancor.

Standing tall on the wall during their watch, the Post Trib Ministers protect the endtime Church. They have the legitimacy of the last-day Ministry of God without human sanction. Isaiah saw the endtime and heard the cry, BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN! The testimony of the WATCHMAN of the night, was that the forces of the Whore and Mystery Babylon may attack the Saints, but in the end, the Whore is judged and MYSTERY BABYLON WOULD FALL.

Yes, the Pre-Tribs, Mid-Tribs, Pre-Wraths and Pan-Tribs will sleep on and take their ease, looking for the secret rapture. While they sleep, God has raised up WATCHMEN of the night, they are your beloved Post Trib Ministers. We are on duty. We are on watch. It is we who are sounding the alarm. Not all men are fit for this duty and perhaps that is why they hate the ones who are? The Israel of God has WATCHMEN on watch. [][][][]