THE CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY
47 Pine Hill
Centreville, AL 35042
MINISTER: Leonard Chance
(205) 926-7706
(205) 717-1960
www.thegreatspeckledbird.org
leonardandbonniechance@gmail.com
Coming of Christ
In these days that you are living in, keep your eye on the King of the South.
Before you see the Saviour on a cloud, you will hear, know, and learn a lot
about the King of the South. You haven’t heard of him yet and you haven’t
learned what his works are. Slowly I will open your eyes to a certain degree
because at this day and this time everyone has an opinion. It is a good thing
that God doesn’t care about opinions.
ISAIAH 20:2 -- At the same time spake the Lord Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from
thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
“Loose the sackcloth from thy lions, and put off thy shoe from thy foot”, and
he did so right then.
ISAIAH 20:3 -- And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked
naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon
Ethiopia;
Keep your eye on the King of the South. Who is the King of the South? Syria.
Syria is the King of the South. For three years my servant Isaiah, has walked
naked and barefoot for a sign and a wonder unto Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya.
You say Libya is not named here, well he will be.
ISAIAH 20:4 -- So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot,
even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
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For a sign and a wonder and the King of the South shall press hard against
Egypt and take it. Press hard against Ethiopia and take it. Even until they
are naked and their buttocks, they have nothing.
Read the fifth and sixth verse. Let the Word of God speak to you. This is
Prophecy! Daniel put it at the End Time of the Gentile age, end of the Church
age. That’s close, not far ahead of you. God has Cursed Egypt, Ethiopia, and
there is nobody to help them because they are crying for help. Come and help
us. Ole Daniel put it this way:
DANIEL 11:40-45 -- And at the time of the end shall the king of the south
push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a
whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he
shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter
also into the glorious land, many countries shall be overthrown: but these
shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the
children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries:
and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the
treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the
Libyans and the Ethiopians shall at his steps. But tidings out of the east and
out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury
to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the
tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet
he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Daniel said; The King of the South, Syria, is going to burn Egypt, Ethiopia,
and Libyan and take all the precious treasures out of Egypt, according to
Daniel at the end time, (end of the Church Time). When he gets so far gone
with it, he will be troubled by tidings out of the East and out of the North
Country, that’s this Country. Out of the East tidings shall trouble him and
out of the North but he is going to do it anyway. Syria is going to do because
the Lord said he was. The Scriptures said the King of the North going, that’s
this Country but never said that the King of the East would. The King of the
East could bark but he stayed on the length of his chain. Destruction reaching
all the way down to the Holy Land, Israel.
Even Israel is going to feel the blunt and that will drive them into the Church.
And they shall come asking the way to Zion! Come and let us join ourselves
unto the Lord. Now we are ready to marry the Saviour. Now Prophecy has
come to them and they want to be in the House of the Lord. All these things
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must come to pass. Isaiah walked naked and barefoot for a sign and God will
not forget the curse.
Don’t you want to go to a Church where you can learn? I’m glad that I
learned there was a Body of Christ, there was a Truth upon the earth and
there was a Bride. A Church that God could come and Worship, Praise,
Glorify, and Teach people how to love the Lord. This teaches you how to love
the Lord and teaches you that the Lord loves you. God is love. He wants love.
He gives love. Love is the whole being of God. That is what the Scripture
said. Read John 3:16.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1 -- Now the Spirit speaketh expressly. That in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils;
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly”, that Spirit being the Holy Ghost, “That
in the latter times” and don’t let this happen to you. The Holy Ghost makes it
plain that in the latter times some shall depart from the Faith. Some had the
Faith; some knew the Faith and walked in it but something happen. The
Faith didn’t leave! The Holy Ghost didn’t leave! These people departed, they
left the Faith. It is a sad day when you see people that once knew and held
this Glorious Gospel and then someone came alone and bewitched them. You
don’t just leave the Gospel when you leave you leave the Holy Ghost. The
Holy Ghost does not leave the Gospel. He did not come to leave the Word. He
came to lead The Church Of God Of Prophecy to the Rapture and lead it He
will!
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times”, and this is indeed
the latter times. “That some shall depart from the Faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits.” When you leave that is what you fall into. When you leave
this Glorious Gospel and run over to brand X you have given heed to seducing
spirits and doctrines of Devils. I see a lot of brand X churches now but this
Church is the one the Holy Ghost came to lead to Perfection and to finish the
Work.
The Holy Ghost is not leaving The Church Of God Of Prophecy! If you
cannot find it here you don’t want it. I said if you cannot find it here you
don’t want it! When you leave the Church Teachings and Doctrine, no matter
where you go or what you go into, you have been Deceive.
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1 TIMOTHY 4:2-3 -- Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience
seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain
from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them
which believe and know the truth.
You need to be very careful about seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils.
They start preaching against marrying and then they tell you to abstain from
eating meat. They will tell you God didn’t make animals for you to kill and
eat them. What did He make them for? Today is the day of Salvation. This is
the accepted time. We don’t worry about what we’re going to give to God as
much as having the heart to give and do what God has Commanded us, not
only the financial part of Salvation, but the Physical, the Spiritual, and the
Service. If you keep that love of God in your heart you’re going to love doing
for God, you’ll love giving to Him. You’ll love everything even when it hurts.
MARK 10:28-30 -- Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and
have followed thee. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you,
There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he
shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and
sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the
world to come eternal life.
While they were following and learning how to preach this Gospel, I do
believe that God took care of their families. When the General Overseer was
overseas he left his Wife at home. He didn’t have a job and she didn’t have a
job but she fed everybody that came by the house and she preached to them.
Where did she get all the food to feed them? They came to eat food and she
wanted to preach to them. Look above you. It came down from above.
You talk about real manner, that is real manner when God opens the windows
of Heaven and pours you out more than you can receive. That is true manner
when God pours out upon you more than you can receive. You haven’t left
anything that you won’t have it or get it in this present time. You haven’t
done more than He has kept you in the Body of Christ. You’re not burning in
the Pit, like some that have fallen into the Well of Deceit. I know that as
people we look at what we’re doing, what we’re giving up, so did the
Disciplines look at it that way, but Jesus didn’t. He said, in this present time a
hundredfold.
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When you begin to count what you have lost for the Lord or gave up for Him,
try counting what all He’s given back to you. The peace in the soul is unbuyable. Look at the tears that you would have shed over there in the Devil’s
den. Now you have joy and laughter, where your heart is free and where your
name is in the Great Book!
God gives you far more, people, than you ever, ever had before! What did the
Devil give you? What did he hand over to you? Where is his blessing? Yet
you follow him religiously!
Paul said, it is time of the Rapture and Jesus has come. Not everybody is
going to rise from the grave and go into the Rapture, only them that are
prepared for the Rapture and the living Saints that are ready to be Reaped.
“We get tired of coming to Church.” I don’t believe it is a time to get Tired! I
don’t believe it is a time for Rest! I believe it is time for Labor! I believe it’s a
time for Worship! I believe it is a time to Give and Go and Do and Be
whatever the Lord calls upon us to do this day! He has kept you where you
are until He comes to Reap the earth. Paul said it this away:
1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-17 -- For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord
in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
“For the Lord Himself”, no, no, not the Lord, He’s got to send Gabriel,
doesn’t he? The Lord Himself is going to do that? For the Lord Himself, He
didn’t send Gabriel down to die on the Cross. He didn’t send Michael or
anybody else He came His self. If He came here Himself and paid the price He
is coming back His self. “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven
with a shout.” I don’t care what people may think when they look up and see
Him and say that isn’t the Lord. He is coming His self. He planted the seed
and now He is here for the Reaping!
Have you ever wondered who made the midnight cry? It was the Lord. He
made the midnight cry. He came with His own Shout. Now He has with Him
a voice of the Archangel. What does the Archangel do? Blows the Trumpet!
The Archangel is there for the blowing of the Trumpet. The blowing of the
Trumpet will raise the dead, the dead in Christ. The Lord came and paid this
price and He Himself is going to make the Shout.
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The Archangel is there to blow the Trumpet that will raise the dead in Christ.
That’s all he is supposed to do, blow the Trumpet. Right now I’m supposed to
blow the trumpet. Right now I’m blowing the trumpet. It is the King of
Glory that’s going to come with a Shout.
When the dead in Christ rises first, then we who are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them to meet the Lord, here is where your Silver
Wings comes in. All of a sudden you fought off the ole flesh and now you put
on Golden Feathers and now you have Silver Wings!
We must have Wings if we are going to fly away and have them you will.
“Then we, which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the
Lord.” Now what can be a greater Sermon then that? That everybody would
want to be in that great Gathering. All of your past tears and past sufferings
and all of the great things you thought you gave up for God now are all
forgotten.
1 CORINITHIANS 15:50-52 -- Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
MATTHEW 24:30-31 -- And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in
heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
We all have a part; the dead and living Saints, all are Changed in a Moment,
in a twinkling of an eye, at the last Trump. The Power of God will be so
strong on this earth and the Fear of God will be so great. The Holy Angels are
the Reapers. They will gather together. Now if the Angel is coming toward
you and you just know he’s coming to take you with him and he goes pass you
to another.
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Everybody thinks that the Lord is just going to be on the cloud and just a
moment he’s gone. That is not true. In a moment you’re Changed. Not
Raptured in a moment but Changed. The four corners of the earth, the four
winds of the earth, people have to be gathered together by the Holy Angels,
they are the Reapers. And they come to Reap when all is gathered together
then in that instant, in that moment all is Changed. Then we all are carried up
at the same time, both dead and living Saints together to meet the Lord in the
air.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:53 -- For this corruptible must be put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.
And this mortal must put on immortality. Immortality, no more are you in
the flesh. No more, and remember, somebody has to bury the dead carcasses
of the living Saints.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:54-56 -- So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be
brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O
death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is
sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
“Death is swallowed up in Victory. O death, where is thy Sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? “ The Sting of Death is Sin! The strength of sin is the
law.” That means you’re breaking the Law of God! I’m glad that Jesus
already swallowed up Death, Hell, and the Grave. Jesus took Power in His
own hand over death, hell, and the grave and He has taken Power over Life.
He has given it to all that will have it. He has come to all that will receive
Him. I am so glad today that I was brought up under the Doctrine of The
Church of God of Prophecy way back many years ago. This ole Church of
God of Prophecy Doctrine will out shine them all! This Doctrine will be
around when you’re dead and gone.
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