The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

With so many things happening –and happening so fast, it seemed time to share with you a short paper I wrote some years ago.

The explanation below will explain the chart:

We are now in the Church Age, and the next event to unfold is the Rapture (or the catching away) of the Church (i.e., all truly born-again believers). Paul explains in Romans 8:1 that there will be no “judgment” (condemnation) upon believers. First Thessalonians 4:13-18 says that the LORD Jesus Christ will return and believers will be “caught up to meet Him in the air.” Christ will not come entirely down to the Earth, but believers will rise to meet Him, and go to the Judgment Seat, where we will give an account of unconfessed sins and will be united with other believers. We will also be given “rewards” for work we have done for Him while we were on the Earth. Only truly born-again believers will be at the Judgment Seat of Christ. I trust to meet you there!

Meanwhile, here on Earth, there will be seven years of Tribulation. The “A” immediately below the “7 Years” on the chart indicates the Antichrist. He will NOT BE KNOWN until the Church is raptured. The seven years of Tribulation are divided into two parts of 3.5 years each.

In the first part, the Antichrist arises in pretense of friendship with Israel. Israel will believe he is the Messiah! In the second 3.5 years,
the Antichrist will lash out on Israel with such fury that those who
oppose Israel today will look like “conservative Sunday School teachers.” The Tribulation ends in the Battle of Armageddon!

Following the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Christ will return to the Earth. This is the Second Coming (as different from the Rapture of
the Church). After Armageddon, the Nations will be judged according
to how they treated the Jews during the Tribulation era.

(Parenthetically, I need to mention that Satan’s Group comprises Satan, the opposite of God the Father; the Antichrist, opposite of God the Son;
and the False Prophet opposite of the Holy Spirit: the Satanic trinity.)

The Judgment of Nations precedes the Millennium, with the Antichrist and False Prophet being cast into the Lake of Fire (called “the Second Death”). They are never heard of again. Satan will then be bound for one thousand years of peace on the earth.

Following the 1,000 years of Peace, Satan is loosed and gathers ungodly humans, born during the millennial era, to join with him in his fight against God. Imagine! This war ends in the Battle of Gog and Magog and Christ is victorious! Satan is then cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity.

The Great White Throne Judgment is only for unbelievers, both living and dead. Judgment is pronounced upon them and they are cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity.

There is then a New Heaven and a New Earth, “wherein dwells righteousness.” All of this is contained within the Scripture. The Scriptures teach that in eternity, we will go back and forth from the New Earth to the New Jerusalem, which itself comes down out of Heaven. The “ladder,” reminds us of Jacob’s (Genesis 28:12), and in reality is Christ Himself, as noted in John 1:51.

I hope this is clear and as exciting for you to read and know, as it is for me to have studied and produced it. There are other views of how things take place, but none connect with Scripture as well as this concept.

What’s most important, however, is that you are ready to meet the LORD Jesus Christ when He comes to gather His own! For when He comes, there
will be no time to prepare! “Today is the day of salvation!” (2 Cor. 6:2).

“Trust and obey; for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus; but to trust and obey.”

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom

Dear Grands,

Revelation 20:12-15, “And I saw the dead, the great and the small,
standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book
was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from
the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades
gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one
of them according to their deeds.
14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the
second death, the lake of fire.
15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was
thrown into the lake of fire.”

There’s an old adage that says, “You can’t do wrong and get by!” When
I sought for the source of that saying, I discovered that it came from an
old hymn by Lethal Ellis back in 1929. The song was referenced from
Ecclesiastes 12:14, that says, “…God will bring every act to judgment,
everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.”

Everything contained in Scripture is true! There are multiple promises of
rewards for being and doing what is acceptable to the LORD; and there
are some stern warnings for ignoring the LORD and doing what is
unacceptable in His sight!

The television screens are currently overflowing with court sessions! It
is in court that lawyers open the discoveries of previous cases and argue
against or in favor of their findings. I can’t help but wonder if that routine
originated from discoveries in Scripture.

The warnings in our Scripture above contain the promise of a Major
Accounting for us all as we stand before the LORD on Judgment Day.
Every person of every nation, living or dead, will that day stand before
the Almighty! The sins that have not been confessed while here on earth,
will be confessed before Him on that day! Heaven will be the final abode
for the forgiven; the Lake of Fire will be the eternal prison for the guilty-as-charged. No one will escape!

Yet, now is the opportunity to escape even being charged. You can choose
to confess your sin to the LORD now! You can accept Him as your Savior
and LORD today! Just pray and ask His forgiveness. Be sincere. Trust Him
to do as He has promised. You will then be saved! How will you know? You
will know! Just believe! The LORD will let you know. God bless you!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We wil never know that Christ is all we need
until He becomes all that we have.”
– Corrie ten Boom

Dear Grands,

Psalm 33:17-22, “A horse is a false hope for victory; nor does it deliver
anyone by its great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, on those who
hope for His lovingkindness,
19 To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart rejoices in Him, because we trust in His holy name.
22 Let Your lovingkindness, O LORD, be upon us, according as we have
hoped in You.”

Were you ever in a position that required someone else to help you out?
Well, hopefully, that “someone” was not a horse! There is no denial that
horses have strength; it’s simply that the kind of dilemma of which the
above verses speak, requires strength of mind, not merely of intelligence.
The love of horses toward humanity has long been demonstrated in a
variety of ways and means. Yet, the guidance of the LORD is greater!

The love of the LORD often prevents human death through a variety of
spiritual and social means. Not every “way out” is necessarily a “good
way” in the long run. Yet, the way “in” is always the way “out.”

Whatever dilemma you face in life, the LORD is your way of escape! He
alone loves you; thereby, He intensely wants you to be delivered. He alone
possesses the strength to deliver you from any and all dilemma.

Permit me to say it one more time: the LORD Jesus Christ can deliver you
from every negative situation. Simultaneously, He can provide full deliverence.
He just needs your permission; and that permission comes entirely through
a full and complete surrender of your will to Him. Trust Him!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom

Dear Grands,

Psalm 33:18-22, “Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him,
on those who hope for His lovingkindness,
19 To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart rejoices in Him, because we trust in His holy name.
22 Let Your lovingkindness, O LORD, be upon us, according as we have
hoped in You.”

Some dear and close friends of mine have lost loved ones in recent days.
I know from personal experience what it is to lose loved ones. Some have
left this life for the Better Life with the LORD. Others, unfortunately, have
trusted in mere human factors hoping to see life in eternity.

The Scripture quoted above says that the LORD is the object of true trust.
It is He who loves us and it is He who transports the souls of believers from
this life into Life Eternal in the heavens. In the meantime, the LORD is our
help, shielding us from the evil that would hold us captive, and giving us
hope of fellowship with Him in Heaven.

As much as we love those whom we have lost, we are comforted in knowing
that the spiritual care of our LORD Jesus Christ far exceeds the help and love
we mortals could ever have showed them. It is now in our loss that we need
His comfort; and it falls to us to show loving comfort for those whom He loves.

My prayers beg for His comfort for your hearts and souls. If you know Him,
you already know His comfort. If you don’t know Him, it is not yet too late.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom

Dear Grands,

1 Samuel 13:10-14, “As soon as he finished offering the burnt offering,
behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and to greet him.
11 But Samuel said, ‘What have you done?’ And Saul said, ‘Because I
saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come
within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at
Michmash,
12 therefore I said, “Now the Philistines will come down against me at
Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the LORD.” So I forced myself
and offered the burnt offering.’
13 Samuel said to Saul, ‘You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now
the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
14 ‘But now your kingdom shall not endure. The LORD has sought out for
Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as
ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.’”

Sometimes we just need to hurry! We see things that need attention, and
we simply attend to them. Sometimes, however, we get in a hurry and
become involved when we ought not to be.

Samuel had business elsewhere; but he set a time for his arrival and shared
the time with Saul. But, Samuel didn’t arrive when he told Saul he would. So,
Saul waited seven days and when he saw that Samuel had still not arrived,
he set about to offer the sacrifices that Samuel alone was qualified to offer.

When Samuel arrived and saw that Saul had offered a sacrifice on the altar,
he soundly rebuked him. Saul would probably have thought little of the rebuke,
except that Samuel said, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the
commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.”

We have absolutely no idea in the world what the LORD has in store for us,
His people. We just do what we “feel best” about doing. We even have a good
heart toward the LORD; but we “jump the gun” and lose the opportunity the
LORD had in store for us.

Oh, how often we do that in life! Remember David’s words in the Psalms:

“Wait for the LORD; be strong and let your heart take
courage; yes, wait for the LORD” (Psalm 27:14).

The LORD has a purpose for each of us, His children. His purposes always
exceed what we have in mind for ourselves. So, let Him be God in your life!
Everything will turn out better when the LORD is stearing the ship.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom