You all have some interesting points of view about prophets. In my studies, I learned that we are to fear a prophet if his words turn out to be true. Just my opinion about Dr. Owuer, I think he is a prophet like Jonah. He preaches repentance, and turning away from sin to the people. If they repent and turn away from their sin, then, the judgment he pronounced will not happen because of their obedience. We cannot call him false if the judgment does not happen. If you look at the prophecy Jonah gave to Nineveh, we saw the people of Nineveh repented with fasting, sackcloth and ashes, and the judgment did not fall upon them. I have listened to Dr. Owuer and this seems to me to be the same style. He always, always call the people to repent. He calls the Church to repentance for all the ungodly things that is going on in the church. People marvel when the whip cracks that he has spoken these things prior to the event. He is speaking but nobody is taking heed to his words and repenting in sackcloth and ashes. I know it is said that we don't have to do that anymore because we are in the dispensation of grace. Well, IMHO we deceive ourselves if we think God does not require a Holy Church.1Pet.4:17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? I think it is time for the purging of the Bride of Christ. The Bible says she shall be without spot, or wrinkle. The Church in the U.S. is full of spots and wrinkles. Unfortunately, everyone is seeking their own way and not the way of the Lord Jesus. Dr. Owuer's message is repent and prepare the way for the coming of our Lord Jesus. That IMHO is a mighty fine message.
I just want to say a thing about the pre-trib rapture. I am a pre-trib believer, and until I see scripture that says otherwise, I will continue to believe that way. No one has effectively shown me that it is otherwise. IMHO I think Dr. Owuer thinks the same way. As far as the dead in Christ, the scripture says this:
1Thes.4:16For 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: 17Then 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.
18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
We see two appearances of our Lord Jesus in the Revelation. Once at the opening of the sixth seal.
Rev.6: 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
And at the end of the 19th chapter
11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
It is obvious that once the people on the Earth see Him sitting on the throne of Heaven. And again they see Him coming to rule , riding a white horse. That is very clear.
Also, in Matt. 24, it does not say the angels will gather his people from the four corners of the Earth. Here is what the verse says:
Matt.24:31And 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.
I believe the Bible says what it means and means what it says.