Truth That Will Set You Free: Prophesies Completed and yet to Come

Copyright © 2014 John David Haffenden.

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

1   An Interesting Dinner Table Conversation

2   Brief Outline of Biblical Prophesies Given

3   Need of Illumination by the Holy Spirit

4   Important Scriptures Pertaining to the Search for Truth

5   Principles of Interpretation of Holy Scriptures

6   Chronology of Events Leading to the Birth of Jesus Christ

7   Events That Caused the Destruction of the Second Jewish Temple

8   Completed Biblical Prophesies That Usher In the Church Age

9   The Last Event of Jesus Christ on Earth at His First Coming

10 This Point in History (2014)

11 PAOC Statement of Fundamental and Essential Truths

12 A Review of What Was

13 A Very Valuable Message about God Reigning in Our Hearts

14 When the Holy Spirit Does Not Reign in a Church, False Servants of God Often Do

15 God’s Truth

16 An Important Observation about Those Who Are Blind to God and Those Who See Well

17 We Are to Comfort One Another with This Wonderful, Unfailing, and Eternal Promise Made by God

18 Qualifications for the Rapture

19 Don’t Lose Heart or Hope in God’s Unchanging Salvation

20 Warnings of Church Apostasy during the Last Days

21 The Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ for His Church as Compared to His Second Coming

22 What Is the Church to Do While Waiting for Christ’s Return?

23 What Is Christian Fellowship? Why Is It So Important?

24 The Parable of the Jigsaw Puzzle

25 Old Testament Covenant: Faith in Christ Who Was to Come—New Testament Covenant: Faith in Christ Who Came

26 We Are Still in the Church Age, But How Much Time Remains?

27 Signs of the Times Number One

28 Signs of the Times Two and Three

29 Signs of the Times Four and Five

30 The Great Hope of the Church

31 Satan and His False Teachers Try to Destroy the Great Hope of the Church

32 Evidence for a Pretribulation Rapture

33 After the Rapture Comes the Judgment Seat of Christ

34 The Church Being Caught Up and the Seven-Year Great Tribulation

35 Seven-Year Great Tribulation and Jesus Christ’s Second Coming

36 What Will Occur during the Great Tribulation?

37 When Will All This Occur?

38 What Building Materials Are We Using?

39 A Vital and Interesting Observation

40 Be Wise—Confirm Your Destiny

41 As Members of the Body of Christ, We Have Duties and Responsibilities until the Rapture

42 Are You Ready for the Judgment Seat of Christ?

43 Discern Who and What Is Being Addressed

44 Timing and Positioning of Events

45 Signs of After-Rapture Events

46 Examine and Compare the Scriptures

47 Scriptures That Indicate the Rapture Will Be a Unique Event

48 Rapture Relationship to All Other Events

49 The Restraining Ministry of the Holy Spirit and the Church—The Dangers of Misinterpreting Scripture

50 Seven-Year Great Tribulation—Daniel’s Seventieth Prophetic Week

51 True Christians Should Find Much Comfort

52 Regarding the Judgments of God

53 Not All Who Talk about Heaven Will Go There

54 Consider the Principles of Counterfeiting

55 Our Last Day on Earth Determines Our First Day of Eternity

References

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my faithful and loving wife, Denise, who was very instrumental in inspiring me to write this book.

I dedicate it also to my deceased parents, William Samuel Haffenden and Hannah Elizabeth. Like Abraham, they died not seeing but believing in God’s promises. They had faith in God’s Holy Word for the true and fruitful salvation through Jesus Christ for their nine children.

Introduction

T he first three chapters of this book give a partial account of how I was persuaded to seek and record God’s truth on specific biblical prophesies and doctrines. However, the first three chapters are the final events of many in my lifetime, which produced this irresistible persuasion. It truly goes much deeper and much farther back; for much of my life, I have had the desire to learn, express, record and declare the truth of God. I have always been conscious that for the most part, many do not really understand and believe God’s truths.

I am eighty-three; I realize I missed my true calling by God many years ago to preach and teach His great, wonderful, and eternal Word and to serve him according to His perfect will and purpose. As I was approaching my forties, I made the unwise decision to accept a managerial position with an international firm, and my interests turned to pursuing fame and fortune.

By the grace of God, during the years 2002–2003, I cried from my heart, soul, and everything in me to the Lord for forgiveness as a prodigal son. He graciously forgave and restored me. Now, I simply and humbly do what I am able to do as God opens doors for me.

I was wonderfully enlightened by Psalm 127:1, which taught me the truth of salvation and restoration after my many years as a prodigal son. It taught me how to pursue God’s perfect will and achieve His purpose in my life. Anything outside God’s will and blessing is unfruitful and in vain.

This book offers illumination of what God has recorded regarding the foundation of the church, its purpose, and its ending

I use the King James Version of the Bible in this book; even with the old English words such as ye, thou, hath, verily, and so on, it is the most accurate English translation from the original, God-inspired manuscripts. Many newer versions have gone much further than simply eliminating old English words; they make use of the two previously rejected manuscripts, Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, and deny the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As mentioned in the early chapters, I treasure Psalm 127:1, and I will sincerely seek God’s mind and intent and not my personal views. I will be careful not to be influenced by any popular views and interpretations of others. I will sincerely seek only God’s truth in His Word. For that reason, He has sent the Holy Comforter to lead us into all truth. Furthermore, Proverbs 3:5 tells us very clearly to not lean on our own understandings on anything but to trust entirely on God.

This book deals extensively with this present church age (also known as the days of grace) and the conduct God expects of us while we are still living in it, the ending of the church age, and how God ends it. What follows is a thorough scriptural look at what will happen after the church age.

This book offers accounts of the prophecies of the ending of the church age, the bride of Christ being caught up to be with Christ, what immediately happens to the church after the rapture, and what occurs on earth after that. As the Holy Scriptures give different accounts of several important events, you will find this book does the same. It is very Holy Scripture supported by the Authorized King James Version Study Bible. I most sincerely want to confirm, unless God reveals His truth and gives us understanding, we will never know it and never be set free.

It is not my intention to offer my personal views and interpretation of God’s prophesies, promises, and purposes. This would not carry any more merit or authority or be less erroneous than many worldly and human viewpoints and interpretations. I am fully aware that the extent of accuracy and truth anyone can find in God’s Holy Word will depend entirely on the illumination that he or she hopes to obtain from the Holy Spirit. To the best of my ability and by the grace of God, this is how I will seek the truth of every prophesied and promised event.

God has promised that all those who truly seek will find, and I believe this with all my heart.

There is a very special Scripture reference that I want to establish as my most sincere prayer reflecting my heart’s desire about this book, Proverbs 22:21: That I [God] might make thee to know the certainty of the words of truth that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee [all those seeking the truth].

Chapter 1

An Interesting Dinner Table Conversation

E arly in January 2013, my wife and I were at a friend’s home for dinner and were talking about Montreal’s weather with the other guests from our church. The Montreal area had received about sixteen inches of snow, which caused most schools and businesses to shut down. Even so, this storm did not compare with the tremendous snowfall that Montreal received back in 1972. The entire Montreal area was completely paralyzed for many days by over forty inches of snow, and people there were able to move around only by skis, snowshoes, or snowmobiles.

This recent snowfall had postponed the funeral services of a dear church friend and long-standing member of Greenfield Park Pentecostal Church (GPPC). He had unexpectedly passed on in his sleep.

Since I started attending GPPC in 2003, I have witnessed several beloved saints and friends passing on as well as six of my brothers. We believe their spirits left their bodies and returned to be with their Lord and Savior. We find a wonderful and comforting truth in God’s holy, infallible, and everlasting Word that confirms that to be absent from the body is to be present with our Lord (2 Corinthians 5:6–8).

At the dinner, we discussed who we were, what we were doing here, and what happens when a Christian experiences physical death. We also discussed the false prediction broadcast on TV and mentioned in the newspapers that the end of the world was to occur on December 21, 2012. It was just one of many false predictions of the end of this world. We remember the story of the boy who cried wolf once too often. We must not be influenced by these false predictions or those who cry Wolf! Satan, the great deceiver, uses such false predictions of the world’s end to desensitize us to the fact or even the thought of the world’s end. Regardless of all these false predictions, there is an end of this world coming as God’s Holy Word states, but the end cannot occur before certain other prophesied events occur. Even so, the ending of this world could be much sooner than we think. Satan, the father of darkness, lies, doubt, and deceit, does not want us to know the truth. When anyone learns the truth about God and His Holy Word, Satan becomes very upset.

During our discussion around the dinner table, several people expressed uncertainty about what will occur following our physical deaths and if there will be an actual end to the world. My spirit was stirred by the remembrance of what God stated very clearly in His Holy Word. It is not God’s will that any of us be ignorant or doubtful about our origin, existence, and future as well as that of all creation. I simply used my memory of what God clearly stated about our physical death or when the saints of God will be caught up in the rapture and scriptural prophesies of the end of this world with its heavens and the creation of a new world and heavens. Many important prophesies and events will occur between the death of true Christians or the rapture and the ending of this world and its heavens. However, at this time, we addressed God’s Word concerning the two subjects that appeared to be of concern. I tried to assure all that God had given us specific prophesies and knowledge on these two subjects.

It is definitely God’s intention that all who seek the truth will find it. God’s Holy Spirit will reveal and lead each true seeker to the truth with its accurate meaning, intent