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Behind the Song: The Lion's Gonna Roar


I was raised in Calvary Chapel, a church with a focus on Bible Prophecy. As a child, I remember that I didn't want Jesus to come back too soon, because I wanted a chance to grow up, get married and have kids. My parents seemed sure that Jesus was coming back any moment. Every September, my mom was sure Jesus was coming back on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish Feast of Trumpets. It made sense--why wouldn't the last trumpet preceding Jesus' coming back to get His Bride happen during the Feast of Trumpets?


When I was seventeen I married a young man in my homeschool group who had a different view of the End Times than I was raised with. I was never sure exactly what he believed, because he never could seem to articulate it. I just knew it wasn't what my parents believed. And over the years, I began to doubt. The Rapture? He said that wasn't in the Bible. Book of Revelation? It was talking about Nero. Abomination of Desolation? That happened before Jesus was even born. (Of course, Jesus refers to it as if it's in the future, so it didn't make a lot of sense to me.) Israel? Cast off by God forever. (I found out later that's called Replacement Theology, which is frankly, heresy.) But ultimately, he didn't believe the End Times should be preached on. He said it was more important to teach people how to live their lives, not about something that would or wouldn't happen someday and we didn't have any control over.


Fast forward two and half decades. The marriage ended in divorce, not by my choice. My family was broken. Some of my kids stopped believing in God altogether. The world seemed so dark. I saw the culture on a fast track to a complete abandonment of all morals. Everywhere I looked, I saw everything that I had heard preached so often as a child coming to pass, and I decided to find out for myself what I believed about the End Times.


Supported by my new husband and strengthened by a renewed call on my life for ministry, I studied for, applied for, and received ministry credentials through the Assemblies of God. One of my classes during ISOM (Illinois School of Ministry) was about the End Times, and some of my questions were so completely answered in ways that I had been searching for for two decades. I learned the history of how eschatological doctrine had developed throughout church history. I began to understand the extent of the importance of the Nation of Israel coming together again in 1948. I read a nearly 600 page book called "Things to Come--A Study in Biblical Eschatology" by J. Dwight Pentecost. I begin to listen to Amir Tsarfati's teachings and the Prophecy Pros podcast. I didn't just absorb, I studied, I crosschecked references in the Bible to see if what I was reading and listening to was right. The more I studied, the more I returned to my roots and the beliefs I had been raised with.


After much study I can say for certain. We believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible. We believe that we are indeed living in the Last Days. We believe that Jesus is going to snatch away those who believe in Him before a period of tribulation that will affect the whole earth, and that a world leader, the Antichrist, will arise that will seem to solve everyone's problems. The Antichrist will make a 7-year covenant with Israel, and then halfway though the seven years will break the covenant, declare himself to be God, and sit down in the temple in Jerusalem that will have been rebuilt. He will make everyone take a mark without which no one may buy or sell. There will be terrible plagues. Antichrist will persecute those who come to believe in Jesus, especially the Jewish people who will finally recognize that Yeshua, (Jesus) is their Messiah. At the end of this seven year tribulation, Jesus will return on a white horse, defeat the Antichrist, and set up a Kingdom on earth for a thousand years. Those of us who had been caught up with him seven years earlier will return with Him and will rule and reign with Him. The rest of the chapters of Revelation, including the Great White Throne Judgment and the New Heavens and New Earth all happen at the end of that thousand years.


I find the Millennial Kingdom to be a fascinating subject. In a world that is so full of evil, the idea of Jesus coming back and ruling and reigning sounds wonderful. He is going to fix everything that is broken, and there is so much that is broken. I think most Christians tend to skip straight to Heaven, but a thousand years is a long time, and that part is up next, so I like to think about it. I like to imagine what it will be like, living in a world ruled by Christ. I long to see a world ruled by perfect righteousness and justice, and see all the insanity of today's culture disappear.


Only God knows the appointed time, but that time is drawing near. The Messiah will return once more to wage war against God's enemies and He will be victorious. "The Lion's Gonna Roar" looks forward to the Day of the Lord. I plan to be riding on a horse behind Him when he comes back as the Lion of Judah to conquer this world. That's not a day you want to want to be here on earth watching Him arrive. Now is the time to decide Whose side you are on. The Day of the Lord is coming, and we need to be ready. If you put your faith in Him, He will take you with Him when the rapture happens. You want to be ready. You want your friends and your family to be ready. All wrong will be made right. Judgment is coming, my friend-.


The Lion's Gonna Roar.

 
 
 

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