The Enigma of the Conundrum

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church, but the Beast is permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them….

David A. Rice D.Div.

Matthew 16: 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock[a] I will build my church, and the gates of hell[b] shall not prevail against it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed[c] in heaven.”

Revelation 13:7 And he was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. He was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church, but the Beast is permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them…. Did you get that?

That conundrum is not without answer.

  • When Noah got off the ark, God said, “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.” (Genesis 9:3)
  • When the Law came, God said, “The pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.” (Leviticus 11:7)
  • Then, in the New Testament, speaking of food, Scripture tells us that “Nothing is unclean in itself.” (Romans 14:14) God does not change but covenants do… Under the Noahic Covenant, eating pork was okay. Under the Law, eating pork was prohibited. Under Grace, eating pork is okay as long as your conscience is not violated…

Again, covenants change. Much of what you feel free to do as a Christian, would have been okay, even for Jews, before the Law was given. Under the Law, they were forbidden to Jews (and gentiles living in Israel), but not to anyone else. Many of those things are still prohibited to unsaved Jews, and also to gentiles who choose (of their own volition) to place themselves under the Law, thereby severing themselves from Christ and falling from grace.

The same is true of the enigma with which we started.  In the Church Age, under the New Covenant, the gates of Hell cannot prevail against the Church. However, the Age of the Gentiles and the New Covenant end on the day that the Tribulation starts. Those who are saved, remain saved but salvation reverts to the Jews and All Israel is saved. (Read Romans 11 ten times and call me tomorrow). In the Tribulation, the Beast is given permission to wage war against the saints and to conquer them.

The end of the New Covenant, the Age of the Gentiles and the Covenant of Grace are ended… And that, is the difference.

David…

The Road to Dystopia…

We will be destroyed but what does the road to Dystopia look like and how do we endure to the end?

This morning’s class…

David…

REVELATION 18:23

Tell me, if God had not sent a strong delusion, how could all nations have been fooled by what is so obviously a blatant lie?

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery 1.”

Revelation 18:23

SORCERY:

  1. Strongs 5331:  pharmakeia

Word Origin: from pharmakeuó (to administer drugs)

Definition: the use of medicine, drugs, or spells.

THINK!

Literally, every nation on earth has fallen for this… This Depopulation Injection, invented in Hell and run by Big Pharma, is going to kill one out of every three people (round figures) in the world… The United States is the Babylon of prophecy and our “sorcery”, our drug, our pharmaceutical industry… Big Pharma (pharmakeia) has deceived every nation on earth and God himself has helped them!!!!!

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2: 9

“Therefore God sends them a strong delusion…”

Tell me, if God had not sent a strong delusion, how could all nations have been fooled by what is so obviously a blatant lie?

PRAY, RESEARCH, THINK!!!

David…

Genesis and the Headlines

Nephilim, Gibborum, Titans, Apollo, and the return of the ancient gods…

Third in the Sunday School series, Prophecy and Headlines… We get into Genesis and other Scriptures, discussing Nephilim, Gibborum, Titans, Apollo, and the return of the ancient gods…

Watch, comment and share!!!

David…

Rethinking the Antichrist

The Antichrist comes as both god and hero!

This is my explanation as to why the Antichrist and his kingdom must and will be rightwing and free… (To start)

David…

A New Religion

By preaching only happy verses, ignoring “If” clauses, curses and warnings, we have built a religion properly called Occultianity.

By preaching only happy verses, ignoring “If” clauses, curses and warnings, we have built a religion properly called Occultianity. Through offerings, positive thinking and the use of Power Verses, we are told that the Devil will be forced to flee and God can be made to do our will… It is all about wealth and life on earth… The God of this World has become the God in our churches.

Do you agree?

Watch it here!!!

https://youtu.be/USiDQLcwP5s

David…

TRUTH THAT WILL SAVE YOU

Truth to save you from the lie…

My latest video…

David…

Pagan Founders

If you insist on clinging to lies, how can you tell me that you love Jesus who is THE Truth?

“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding…” {Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}

Why do you need to know this? Because if you hold to the lie that America is a Christian Nation, founded by Christian people, on Christian principles, you will never understand what is happening today. This is not a change, it is a continuation of an idea put forth by Plato, continued by Sir Francis Bacon and fully embraced by the Founding Fathers…

In 2 Thessalonians 2, Scripture tells us that God himself will send a delusion and cause all who do not love the truth to believe the lie of the Antichrist. If God himself causes you to believe a lie, what chance do you have?

Do you love the truth?

The only way to escape the Antichrist and his mark is to love the truth… If you insist on clinging to lies, how can you tell me that you love Jesus who is THE Truth?

Think about it?

David…

Long Term Plan

Can you lay out that plan, see the past, understand the present, and foretell where we are going?

Everything you see today is part of a long term plan that has been developing since the day God told Satan that the Seed of the Woman would crush his head… Can you lay out that plan, see the past, understand the present, and foretell where we are going?

  • The fall of Adam.
  • God tells of the coming Seed.
  • Genesis 6, Fallen Angels, Nephilim and Gibborum.
  • The Flood.
  • Babel.
  • Giants in the Land.
  • Moses fails to destroy the Nephilim.
  • Mega Kingdoms.
  • The Seed.
  • The Church.
  • Two races:
    • The Nephilim Elite, Royal families, bankers, and Presidents.
    • The Human Race, everyone else (useless eaters).
  • Twin Towers merged into one, symbolizing two races merged into one.
  • Plagues, inoculations, death, and Human 2.0.
  • Armageddon, Rapture, Return, Judgment, and Rule.

You could add hundreds of steps to that list… It would remain one story… It is not a collection of isolated stories… it is one single story.

You understand that Satan is still trying to undo Babel and unite the world… This was the dream of Alexander the Great and every Roman Caesar. This was the dream of the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church. This is the dream of Pope Francis and the prophets and apostles of the New Apostolic Reformation. This is the goal of Seven Mountaineers. This was the goal of Mohammad and remains the goal of Muslims everywhere… This is the goal of the Jesuits and the Master Masons. This was George Washington’s goal and the goal of all of the founding fathers… This is Trump’s goal and Biden’s goal… This is Satan’s goal…

Scripture tells us that Apollyon (Apollo) will escape and bring the world together… For about seven years, the world will be united. Then comes Armageddon, the Return and rule of Jesus and the Millennial Reign…

If you know the back story, can connect today’s headlines with Scripture and you know the end… figuring out what kind of things happen next is a very easy task… just fill in the blanks.

Think about it!

David…

Rapture Timing

Eisegesis, driven by irrational fear and unmitigated wishful thinking, is a powerful tool of deception and perhaps the greatest weapon of the Devil…

Fear and Wishful Thinking

The greater my commitment to the truth and longer I search for truth, the more convinced I am that no one ever goes to the Scripture with an open heart and mind and comes away believing in a PreTrib Rapture.

Those who believe in a PreTrib Rapture were taught the doctrine of a PreTrib Rapture before they ever went to the Scriptures. Without exception, they go to the Bible already fully convinced of a PreTrib Rapture and determined to prove that which they already believe.

This is called eisegesis. Eisegesis is unilaterally condemned and universally applied. We start with what we believe and search the Scriptures for verses and passages that would seem to support our preconceived notions…

Although PreTrib is not the only example of that, i.e. we might include infant baptism or eternal security, PreTrib is the most egregious example. Driven by an unrealistic fear of the Tribulation and wishful thinking, the list of prooftexts collected by the PreTrib believers is awesome. Hundreds of verses collected in dozens of combinations… Prooftext on top of Prooftext.

But the reality remains, several websites have been offering thousands of dollars to anyone who can come up with any verse or passage that places the Rapture before the Tribulation. They are all still in possession of their funds. The truth is that no such verse or passage exists.

What the PreTribbers give us are lists of verses that say that God is good, combined with verses that say that there will be a rapture. They say that we are not destined for wrath, but the passage they quote juxtaposes that wrath with Heaven. The opposite of Heaven is not the Tribulation but Hell and the everlasting Lake of Fire.

Nowhere do they find anything that remotely indicates that God must rapture us before the Tribulation. In fact, the opposite is true; Scripture clearly indicates that we will go through tribulation, that we will be hated by all nations, that we will be handed over to be killed, and even that it is our own relatives who will betray us…

Revelation tells us that the Antichrist will make war against the Saints and overcome them… Nowhere, outside of the Left Behind books and movies, will you find mention of anything like a “Tribulation Saint”. These Saints are the Church of Jesus Christ…

1 Corinthians 15:52 tells us that we will be gathered “at the last trump.” The last trump sounds when Jesus descends at Armageddon… If you insist on a PreTrib Rapture you must accept that having been raptured, we are somehow returned to earth and grave in order to be raised at the Last Trump!

2 Thessalonians 2 tells us that we cannot be gathered to the Lord until after the Man of Sin is revealed. It even tells us that he will be revealed when he sits in the Temple, as if he were God, proclaiming himself to be God. Until and unless you see that happen, you cannot be gathered to him… That is plain as day.

Mark 13:27 And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

Matthew 24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

In the passage from Matthew, the gathering of the Elect is specifically and undisputedly placed “Immediately after the tribulation of those days…”

No, if you go to the Bible with an open heart and an open mind, you will understand that the Rapture cannot happen before the Tribulation… Clear and plain Scripture makes that impossible. If, on the other hand, you are convinced of a PreTrib Rapture, you will go to the Bible to prove it and you will end up with a string of verses that say that there will be a rapture and another string of verses that say that God is good… You will mix up those lists and insist that your list proves that the Rapture has to be before the Tribulation…

Eisegesis, driven by irrational fear and unmitigated wishful thinking, is a powerful tool of deception and perhaps the greatest weapon of the Devil…

Think about it!

David…