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Posted: 30 Jun 2019 12:36 PM PDT
It is with heartbreak that I must inform you all that on Friday night we lost a dear brother in Christ, Paul Skotarski, whom many of you know by his YouTube channel Zeus Mossbender. He was an uncle, professional comedian, and disciple of Christ. On Friday night he was struck and killed by a car while trying to cross the road. His struggles were known to many us, but now they are over. He died knowing the gospel of grace through faith alone, and trusting in Christ. He is in glory.
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
- Psalm 116:15
Exactly 10 days before his passing he published the following video in which he discussed the LORD laying on his heart a retrospective word about the Revelation 12 Sign of September 23, 2017. The important part starts at about the 35 minute mark:
Below is the pertinent transcript of Brother Paul's final message on the Revelation 12 Sign, given just 10 days before he fell asleep in the LORD:
Let's go back to Scripture.
"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; and she, being with child, cried travailing in birth and pained to be delivered." (Revelation 12 verses 1 and 2)
Now I would like to share these verses with you. Read them along with me.
"For as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us even as they delivered them unto us which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, it seemed good to me, also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou has been instructed." (Luke 1:1 through 4)
And our second verse:
"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty." (2nd Peter 1:16)
Brothers and sisters, there is one word that I would like for you to keep in your back pocket from these verses [and] it is this word here: eyewitnesses.
And now, back to Revelation 12 verses 1 and 2. I remarked earlier that it was in July of the year 1989 when Abba sent His Ruach—His Spirit—to open my eyes. The first book of Scripture that I read from beginning to end was the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It didn't just happen because from the very moment that the Holy Spirit came into my heart there was only one thing I wanted: the return of the King—also known as the Blessed hope—since then, since that July morning. It was around 4:00 AM.
It has really been the only great dream, wish, [and] hope of my life and it will be absolutely no surprise to anyone that eschatology—the study of last things—would be the driving force of my life for these past 30 years. However, never never did I dream that the first and second verses of the book's twelfth chapter would change my life, but you see and I don't care what anyone on this earth says and I will stand toe-to-toe with anyone who would dispute that it changed the world.
Did you hear that Billy Crone, Jan Markell, Amir, and whoever else mocked, ridiculed, and just completely disrespected—disrespected what our Heavenly Father did on September 23rd of the year 2017 and what happened?
This verse happened. The very word of God happened. The word of God appeared literally in the sky. And you know what? Let me tell you what. I saw it. I saw it rise from the home of my sister and I saw the setting of it from a hill where my elementary school still sits to this day.
Do you understand yet why I cited Luke 1:1 through 4 and 2nd Peter 1:16? Do you get it now? I asked you all to keep this word in mind, but I have another one for you: Comfort. The crux of this bite of the biscuit my friends is comfort. Because we who were chosen to be eyewitnesses to what happened during September 23rd 2017 can be comforted by the fact that we did not hock ridicule or disrespect what our Almighty God called "GREAT."
So in September the 23rd 2017 the heavens declared His glory and count yourself blessed and highly favored that instead of calling it a joke you were part of and were eyewitnesses to something seen by no other generation in the history of mankind. Like Peter and the early believers we truly were eyewitnesses of His majesty. Comfort yourself with that my brothers and sisters. What an amazing [thing] we were given by our Almighty.
Please understand, brothers and sisters, that I am in no way intimating that these verses—the verses I cite here—have anything at all to do with Revelation 12:1 and 2. I pray that you see the spirit within which I use them: as theywere eyewitnesses we were eyewitnesses "...that thou mightest know the certainty..."—the certainty of what we saw years before the formation of that celestial wonder. We waited for it. Why? Because it was certain to happen. It cannot be denied. It was there. I saw the rising of it: the Alpha; and I saw the setting of it: the Omega. So as Peter said: "...we did not follow cunningly devised fables..." It was shown to us years before it appeared and we were eyewitnesses to it. So many of us say, "Oh, if we could have only been shown what they there in the upper room were shown." Well let me say this to you, they saw many wonderful and miraculous things, but we—we were the ones chosen to be the eyewitnesses to this: "...a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, and she, being with child, cried travailing in birth and pained to be delivered."
Do you all understand why it makes my blood boil when I think about those who have mocked, ridiculed, and disrespected what you're seeing on the screen right now? [Paul shows a picture of the Revelation 12 Sign] My friends, oh, oh, oh, they will be held to account for their mocking and you know you know who they are. Now of course there are those right now, right this very moment, asking, "Old Paul, O little Polish man, why, why are you talking about all of this—this sign or whatever you call it—almost two years after the fact?" Well let me tell you, because Abba Father placed on my heart a particular word and that word was EYEWITNESS; and this he placed on my heart because of all of those who have wished that they had been an eyewitness to something great with regard to Scripture. Well just look. Look at what you're seeing on the screen right now.
Those present for the feeding of the 5,000 didn't get to see what's on your screen right now. [Nor] did they—those present at the raising of Lazarus—didn't get to see what you're seeing on the screen right now, or what you saw if you did witness it on September 23rd 2017.
Oh my goodness, don't you see? Don't you get it? Oh brothers and sisters, the reason I bring all of this back to our minds after all of this time is because I know that our Abba Father wants us—we who are here in this day and age, we who are of His Son's body—He wants us to know that we are very, very near and dear to His heart and that the heavens will declare His glory to those of us who have been the eyewitnesses of it. Amen and Maranatha.
Learn more about the Revelation 12 Sign here. Brother Brad has a fitting tribute to Paul over at Revelation 12 Daily.
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A Final Note
If the LORD has laid something on my own heart through all of this, it's simply this: let's not let our fellowship stumble and drift apart. An amazing community of brothers and sisters in Christ has developed these past several years across a number of ministries because of what we were chosen to be eyewitnessesof. Whereas at Christ's first coming, wise men from the east came to greet the newborn King, at His next appearing, it will be many from east, west, north, and south who heeded God's word and believed in the truthfulness of the plain words of Scripture. Not all of us subscribe to the same beliefs and interpretations of every fine point of doctrine, but we do agree on the essentialsand that's what, through the Holy Spirit, keeps our fellowship strong. Let's press on in our journey together—a journey which is almost at its end. The Blessed Hope awaits. And let us press on as we seek out new understanding and deeper revelation of what God is trying to communicate to us about the nearness of our Blessed Hope. I plead with you all that we would continue to lift up one another through prayer and encouragement, and that we would maintain our Christian unity—always imploring God for the spiritual health and readiness of His Church. Maranatha. Come LORD Jesus.
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