Standing Watch for Jesus

I was in the Navy aboard a ship and fulfilled my active duty requirement just before Desert Storm broke out. Regularly I stood watch. I relate my testimony and standing watch to now standing watch for the events leading up to and the event itself of Christ’s return.

When a sailor was about to take over the helm watch of the ship it was required that you would “take in” and memorize in a certain format all of the current observed conditions and orders and then salute the Officer of the Deck and recite these perfectly before asking permission to relieve the current helmsman. There were other watches as well not involving the Helm (driving the ship), Lee helm (controlling the speed). There were Starboard (right) and Port (left) watches, Aft (back) and Aft steering (emergency). There was also a watch for “tracking” everything that had already been spotted in the water. This could involve things having to do with nature, ships, debris, etc.

I was involved in the rescue and “bailing out” of a U.S. Embassy under attack and the Alaskan Oil Spill cleanup. During the Embassy mission I was assigned watch on a .50 caliber machine gun. During this time there were several threats of small boats potentially loaded with bombs and such. I can tell that after standing this watch with a gun locked and loaded ready to fire on order or to return fire it was very scary.

Recently Iran ran some similar boats at our U.S. Navy ships. I am asking you to please not minimize this threat in any way as it is very real. There is no effective difference in shooting military missiles or crashing jet liners (9-11) or boats loaded with bombs. The loss of life is still very tragic and there would be Radical Muslim groups claiming military victory.

Also, I want to show a real life example of a military watch and how it relates to an “end times” watch. Perry Stone has a good study on this and when Jesus and the Apostles were admonishing us to “WATCH” for Jesus’ return they many times utilized military parables. Perry Stone in his study of this said that if a Israelite soldier was caught sleeping on watch he would be stripped “naked”. It certainly seems to relate to this scripture:

Revelation 16:15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Live footage of the Iranian attack:

http://video.newsmax.com/?assetId=V1409768?s=al&promo_code=429D-1

Blessings,

Tony

P.S. – My testimony and how I believe it has prophetic relevance is available at www.tony4yhwh.com