Page 10 God's Watchman by Pastor Alton B. (Don) Billingsley
P. 10
doorways of their homes.
It would appear the Jews
never gave this time in their
history real serious and con-
templative thought as to why
there was no deliverance as
they had at that time, but
rather their destruction; and it
began on this very night.
It was only the true and
faithful people of God whose
lives were spared by leaving
Jerusalem just before the Church Members
Passover night that meant Sleeping
death to the Jews. They The Church Era of the
observed the Passover in
Laodiceans, trusting in their
Pella, Jordan. own righteousness is slumber-
ing in deep sleep believing
Page 262 "The Escape of the they are self-sufficient and in "And do this, knowing the
Christians" . . . "Some time need of nothing further from time, that now it is high
before the siege, following the Jesus Christ! Matthew time TO AWAKE OUT OF
warning in Luke 21:20-22, 25:1-13; Revelation 3:17. SLEEP; for now our salva-
they withdrew to Pella, tion is nearer than when
beyond the Jordan, led by They will awaken too late we first believed. The
Symeon ... "Thus their lives to flee with the Elect people night is far spent, the day
were spared from the horrible of God from the Philadelphia is at hand. Therefore cast
deaths of the Jewish people." Era of the Church of God! off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the
Their anguished cries to God
Is History will be of no avail for the armor of light" (Romans
Repeating Itself? Door will have been closed 13:11-12; Ephesians 6:10-
18).
As it was with the Jews (Matthew 25:10).
in Jerusalem who dismissed
these heavenly warning The Philadelphian Church Era The Day of the Lord
SIGNS, so it is with present- MUST also learn from the Based on the miraculous heav-
day society! It has moved history of Jerusalem in 70 A. enly signs in Jerusalem in 70
on leaving behind what they D. while considering the A. D., and with prophetic
have already witnessed with present; otherwise, there Scriptures in mind, undoubt-
no serious and lasting contem- could be a most horrible and edly there will be other Heav-
plation. terrible price to pay with the enly Visible SIGNS taking
cost of the crown of life and place as a type and forerunner
of the closeness of the Great
Thus, it will come to pass just kingship (Revelation 3:10-
as Jesus Christ said: " ... it 13). The Apostle Paul wrote a Tribulation-before the full-
will come as a snare on all warning for each member of ness of the Day of the Lord.
those who dwell on the God's Church:
Whether, or not- there are
face of the whole earth"
many other SIGNS that relate
(Luke 21:35).
to prophecy revealing how
close we are to the end.
