Olive Tree Ministries - prophetic signs, current issues, and the Messianic Jewish movement.

Our Purpose

Our Purpose

Some people call this the 9/11 generation. We prefer to call it “the times of the signs”, or the latter days, last days, or end-times. It’s the time about which the Bible speaks more than any other. The last generation that might witness the Church caught triumphantly up in the air to “meet Him in the clouds” at the time of the Rapture. What a privilege yet what a responsibility to be born “for such a time as this.” Even as more turmoil surrounds us, we do not faint with fear but rather we “Look up, knowing our Redeemer draws nigh.” (Luke 21:28)

The prophet Ezekiel foretold 2500 years ago that the key sign of that last generation would be the coming together of the dead, “dry bones.” (Ezekiel 37) Just 150 years ago Mark Twain called the land of Israel a “moonscape.” But the Psalmist said that “When the Lord builds up Zion, He shall appear in His glory.” (Psalms 102:13-16) And how He has built up Israel in the last one hundred years! Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount, continue to be God’s time clock. That is why the world rages over those areas, and why that shall escalate on a daily basis until the end of the age.

While we like to tell people He shall soon appear in His glory, we also urge them to not focus on the day or hour of the Lord’s return, but to be about evangelizing the lost while there is still time. That is the central message of an “end-time” ministry or else it places its focus on the wrong emphasis.

In the last two decades the interest in Bible prophecy has declined dramatically, and we believe this is detrimental to the body of Christ. It has robbed us of an important perspective on life here and now, for the knowledge of the future should affect our actions in the present. In fact, to ignore what God says about the future cannot but cloud our insights into the present. Perhaps too many are content with their lot in this life that life hereafter has lost its attraction.

Olive Tree Ministries wants you to see how you fit into His grand plan of things as the end of the age draws near. We won’t be sensational. We will, however, look to the Bible as our guide. We call on solid, dispensational teachers to speak into this ministry, who minister in a balanced way, just as we strive to do. We find it grievous that the attitude today is that when Jesus and the “end-times” come, they will come, but in the meantime, I have to live my life in the real world. Bible prophecy is for living in the real world right now. It is so important to God that it occupies 30% of Scripture.

We encourage you to watch and pray that no one deceive you; to be counted worthy to escape the coming Tribulation, and to be ready in faith. We want you to look up in hope and to be rooted in the grace of God through a personal relationship with Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah, our only hope and strength.