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Position Statement on 40-60-80-Day Fasts and Beyond for the Motive of Salvation & Rapture-Preparedness

Published April 5, 2012 | By Admin

Position Statement on 40-, 60-, 80-day Fasts and Beyond for the Motive of Salvation & Rapture-Preparedness:

To Our Friends in CHRIST:

We, here at End-Times-Prophecy.com, would like to make a clear statement about our position on 40-days plus fasting for the motive of salvation and rapture-preparedness: SALVATION ONLY COMES BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST—THE WASHING OF THE BLOOD FROM OUR LORD’S IMMENSE, INDISPUTABLE SACRIFICE.

Fasting for the motive of greater intimacy with the LORD is pure and fruitful just as taking communion is honoring to our LORD—however there is not enough fasting, taking communion, or works of the flesh that can save us or make us ready for the rapture. We are only saved and made ready by repenting to the LORD for our grievous sins; surrendering our lives over to the LORD completely; thereby receiving the LORD’s perfect Blood Covering for our sins; and also then making our LORD the undisputed MASTER over our life.

If we believe that long (and dangerous) fasts will lead us to salvation and rapture-preparedness, then we are attempting to justify ourselves by our own flesh and works. We are therefore admitting that the LORD’s Sacrifice by crucifixion was not good enough to save us. If our motive for fasting is to guarantee salvation then what is the specific number of days of fasting that guarantees salvation?…40?….45?…50?….80? What amount of fasting would be acceptable to GOD, if fasting leads to salvation and rapture-preparedness? Where in the bible is this number of days specified for this task and motive for each individual?

There are people who cannot participate in water fasts or long fasts of any kinds (and should not attempt them): specifically pregnant women, people with health risks that prohibit such fasting; people who are bedridden or terminally ill; people who are recovering from surgery; people who are preparing for surgery; young people who are in school and need to focus on school and take physical education that requires energy; people who provide the lively-hood for their families that require intense physical labor; people who are being kept alive by life support equipment; people who are mentally aware but are quadriplegic, people who have never fasted before….etc. etc….etc…..I PRAISE THE FATHER WHO SENT HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD, TO PAY THE PRICE SO THAT WE ARE SAVED BY HIS BLOOD AND NOT BY OUR INFERIOR EFFORTS THROUGH PERFORMANCE.

What kind of god would make you wonder to yourself, “I did a 40-day fast, but do I need to do a 45-day fast next or perhaps an 80-day Daniel fast to ensure that my salvation is secure?”

Galatians clearly shows that human “works” such as fasting cannot justify us: Galatians 2:16 (KJV): Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

We are only saved by grace and not our inferior works—such as fasting where we are performing a task by our own flesh : Galatians 2:20-21 (KJV): ²⁰I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. ²¹I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

We are only justified by faith, not our fleshly actions, by the LORD’s Death on a cross and by HIS Blood shed for us: Galatians 3:6-9 (KJV): ⁶Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. ⁷Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. ⁸And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. ⁹So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

Don’t turn to works of the flesh—such as fasting for example—which is a yoke of bondage for salvation: Galatians 5:1 (KJV): ¹Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

If we choose works of the flesh over the LORD’s Salvation by the Blood and HIS INCREDIBLE Grace we will be led to keep the whole law which is impossible in the flesh apart from the HOLY SPIRIT when we receive HIM completely through the baptism of the HOLY SPIRIT. We will therefore fall from GOD’s Grace: Galatians 5:3-4 (KJV): ³For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. ⁴Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

To be assured of Salvation and Rapture-preparedness: repent of your sin with a sincere heart; surrender your complete life over to the LORD; ask the LORD to be filled with the HOLY SPIRIT (for a complete filling of your oil lamp—see the parable of the ten virgins); and seek the LORD daily in an intimate relationship with HIM by talking to HIM all through the day (prayer) and reading HIS Precious Word (the Bible).