This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints.
Revelation 13:7 And he (The Beast) was permitted
to wage war against
the saints
and to
conquer them.
He was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation. 8 All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.
9 If anyone has an ear, he should listen:
10 If anyone is destined for captivity,
into captivity he goes.
If anyone is to be killed with a sword,
with a sword he will be killed.
This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints.
Western Christians fear the Tribulation in ways that would baffle a Christian suffering persecution in the real world…
WHY AND HOW?
For many years, a very real website offered $5,000 US to anyone in the world who could produce a Scripture that spoke of a Pretrib Rapture. After more than a decade, they shut down the page with their money still in their pockets.
For almost as many years, I have asked for the same Scripture. I have received many Scriptures from people who told me that they were the answer to my request. Most of the Scriptures spoke to the goodness of God and a couple, at least on the surface, out of context and cleverly misinterpreted, almost seemed to support the idea…
Of course, when you read the paragraph before that verse and the paragraph after that verse, it becomes quite obvious that it says no such thing…
I cannot count the number of people who have told me that if I understood that God is good, the Tribulation is bad, and that we will follow the dead and ascend to meet Christ at his return… even though God never really spoke of a PreTrib Rapture, I would understand that He really meant to but that it somehow escaped his attention…
How did Satan sell this childish and silly doctrine? He gave the idea to a Jesuit Priest, who, writing under a pen name and pretending to be a converted Jew, put it in a book, written in Latin.
He then got a copy of the book into the hands of the very first Pentecostal preacher in England, who translated it into English and fell in love with the idea.
He then sent two Americans to England, C. I. Scofield, a would be Bible scholar, and D. L. Moody, an uneducated shoe salesman turned Evangelist.
Scofield twisted the Scripture and put the idea of a pretrib rapture in his Study Bible as if it were Bible truth.
D. L. Moody put it into his sermons, and terrified sinners flooded the altars… Suddenly, he was the most famous Evangelist in America. When pastors and other evangelists saw the numbers, they bought the doctrine… Biblical or not, it filled the pews and the offering plates…
More than that, sinners, terrified that they might be caught sinning at Christ’s sudden return and face the Tribulation, caught the dream…
Fear and wishful thinking are powerful motivational tools… Ask any evangelist…
It also helped that Christians in America had faced no (zero) persecution in several centuries… You fear what you do not know… You fear the Tribulation in ways that would baffle a Christian suffering persecution in the real world…
But that begs the question, why?
Very, very simple… If you can sell the church on the idea that they will escape the Tribulation, they will stumble into the Tribulation, frightened and unprepared… The chances that they will accept and worship the Antichrist and take his mark are increased ten thousand fold… You can rob God Almighty of the souls of the people He died to save…
When Americans tell me about the rapture, they tell me how bad the Tribulation will be. They might even suffer and be forced to die for Jesus!!!!! A loving God would never allow an American Christian to suffer like that! Yes, Paul and so many more suffered and died for Jesus… BUT THEY WEREN’T AMERICANS!!!!!
JESUS IS NOT RETURNING FOR A SINFUL, NASTY, UGLY, MESSED UP BRIDE, A BRIDE CONVINCED THAT HE DIED TO MAKE THEM RICH, HEALTHY AND COMFY IN BABYLON!!!!
There is a dichotomy regarding Trump, he is either a savior or a deceptive figure representing Lucifer. You must not view him as a typical president, as doing so perpetuates a dangerous delusion. You are encouraged to maintain faith amid this spiritual challenge.
Trump is either God or the Antichrist…
You must decide what you will believe, but you cannot allow yourself to see him as simply another President, that is not an option.
This is supernatural…
This is the oldest game in the world… From Dark to Light… The Shining.
I will tell you that this is a devilish con job… You can ignore me, or argue with me, or shout from the housetops, telling the world that I am an evil liar…
None of that will change the facts… Trump is a Messiah, a Savior… He comes in splendor and light. He comes to save us!
But this is not the light of the God of Heaven… This is Lucifer posing as an Angel of Light… This is moving from the black night of Satan to the bright morning of Lucifer… This is a game, and if you believe it, you are damned…
But you have free will… You may choose to believe that God Almighty has sent a hard-faced, blasphemous, liar to save America in her sin, without repentance, and empower her to continue in her sin, raising her up so that she can rule the world… Feel free… I will not stop you.
This is the delusion, sent from God, to cause those who love pleasure more than they love righteousness to believe the lie.
This is the deception that threatens even the Elect of God…
I have always known that the remnant would be small. The remnant is tiny beyond belief… If you understand my words, congratulations, you are part of that tiny group of Christians who love Jesus more than they love life itself…
Sleep well tonight, get up in the morning, pick up that ugly, splintered, wooden cross and keep dragging it up that hill… There is Glory on the other side of Calvary…
For the rest of you, please enjoy your moment… bask in the glorious light of Lucifer… Applaud and uphold his Messiah… This is your time to shine!
The scenario presented imagines Donald Trump as the Antichrist during the end times. It portrays a timeline where he initially appears as a savior, leading to a false sense of peace before revealing his true identity. The narrative suggests widespread calamities, Christian persecution, and a cataclysmic event involving Apophis by 2029.
Possible:
Let us call this scenario neither optimistic nor pessimistic, simply probable…
Whatever you believe, let us assume, for the purposes of our little thesis, that Donald J. Trump is the Antichrist, we are in the end times, the Tribulation has or soon will start, Apophis will strike in 2029, and the return of Jesus is imminent. If these things are not true, this scenario would seem much less likely.
So many see the Antichrist as coming on the scene as a terrible man and his coming as bringing instant death and destruction. Quite the contrary, 2 Thessalonians tells us that he comes on the scene with false miracles and all the power of Hell. He is not, at the start, an overwhelming dictator, rather he is a hero, a messiah, a savior…
It seems that Christians are predicting that everything is going to fall apart and we are all going to die in 2025. I find that highly unlikely. it is three and one half years after his inauguration that he shows himself for who he really is…
I think that perhaps as late as the end of 2026, Trump will maintain his American Hero status… He will cow the world into subservience and life in America will appear to be headed back to the innocence and abundance of a 1950’sAmerica… The Christian Patriots will look on those of us who have called Trump the Antichrist and call us fools…
Peace and prosperity will reign, Israel will be divided, a Palestinian State proclaimed and a magnificent temple built on the Temple Mount… Daily sacrifices will be observed for the first time in 2,000 years.
The very close passing of Apophis will be admitted and the world will come together to fight this common enemy of all mankind. Trump will take the lead on the world stage. While he orchestrates disease, death and famine, he will appear to be fighting them. War and plague will diminish the world’s population… Still, Trump will be the hero fighting all of these enemies, taking control…
Bible believing Christians will not take the Trump Mark and the persecution will begin. Christian Patriots will stand in front of television cameras and flood social media with photos of the Trump Mark on their hands…
At some point, America will burn, Babylon will be destroyed… Trump will survive and move his New World Government to Israel. In the Fall of 2028, 42 months following his return to power, there will be a dedication service at the new Temple in Jerusalem… Trump will, at the ceremony, live on Worldwide Television, take his seat in the Holy Place, unveil an image of himself, and declare himself to be God Almighty…
It is on that day that Jew and Cultural Christian will finally figure out who he really is… It will be too late.
Then comes Apophis, the death of one third of every living thing on earth, and the Wrath of an angry God…
I am not claiming to be a prophet… This is a prognostication, not a prophecy… This is “Thus thinkith David”, not “Thus saith the Lord”
None the less, I do believe that this, likely with some modification, is what is about to play out on the world stage…
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Matthew 24:
21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 22 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:
15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Revelation 20:
4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.
THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION.
6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
The 70th week of Daniel, referred to as the Tribulation, began on October 2, 2024, Some two weeks after 193 nations submitted to a One World Government, unnoticed by many. The Church, likened to a slumbering virgin, risks missing the importance of persevering in faith amidst impending suffering and trials, ultimately determining one’s eternal fate.
I would argue that the 70th week of Daniel, known as the Tribulation, started on Rosh Hashanah, October 2nd, 2024. This new year began two weeks after 193 nations of the world signed a document placing their nations under the control of a One World Government…
And nobody saw it…
The Watchmen were blowing their trumpets and screaming at the top of their lungs… but nobody even flinched. Sunday came and they turned up the music and tried not to hear the terrible cries of those irritating watchman…
Like the virgins in the parable, the Church is asleep… fast asleep. The most important thing in life seems to be saving America and preserving the cushy American lifestyle…
When the church awakes and finally sees what is happening, it will be way to late for the foolish virgins… They will run to their Bibles… They will pray prayers of desperation…. They will scream, and cry, and pound on the gates of Heaven…
But the Bride Groom will say, “I never knew you!”
It is not those who trust in the doctrine of Eternal Security who will be saved… it is “he who endures to the end.”
Seven years of Hell on earth is a long time. You will be given every opportunity to recant and renounce Jesus… You will face the pains of starvation, incarceration, and execution…
If you are not ready now… you will not endure and you will not be saved…
Are you prepared to endure? Are you ready and willing to suffer and die for Jesus?
This is not about saving America and the world… This is about Heaven or Hell…
And the choice is yours…
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. 8 All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.
9 If anyone has an ear, he should listen:
10 If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a sword he will be killed.
This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints. ——————————————————–
The content suggests a prophecy likening the United States, particularly New York City, to Biblical Babylon. It outlines a sequence of catastrophic events leading to an “American Apocalypse,” culminating in a return of Christ. Key events include a monetary collapse, riots, Trump’s rise to power, and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
THERE IS NO NATION ON EARTH, other than THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and THERE IS NO CITY IN THE WORLD, other than NEW YORK CITY that could possibly match the description of BABYLON given in the book of REVELATION chapter eighteen…
Because it does not fall until the end (chapter 18) of the Tribulation, I perceive that the GREAT AMERICAN APOCALYPSE will not happen until very near to the end of the Tribulation.
Based on that observation, I would see the following as THE MOST LOGICAL, if not the only, ORDER OF EVENTS.
1. A COLLAPSE OF THE MONETARY SYSTEM. 2. RIOTS AND COLLAPSE. 3. TRUMP ELECTED. 4. TRUMP GIVEN UNHEARD OF AUTHORITY AND POWER. (To address and solve the emergency at hand) 5. ALMOST SUPERNATURAL, SPEEDY RECOVERY. 6. NEW DIGITAL CURRENCY. 7. CHIP, NATIONAL AND WORLDWIDE. 8. INABILITY TO BUY, SELL, TRADE, OR BARTER WITHOUT THE MARK. 9. TRUMP MAKES PEACE IN MIDDLE EAST. (SUPERNATURAL) 10. ISRAEL DIVIDED. 11. PALESTINIAN STATE ESTABLISHED. 12. THIRD TEMPLE BUILT. 13. TRUMP DOUBLE CROSSES ISRAEL. 14. TRUMP TURNS AGAINST SAINTS. 15. TRUMP OVERCOMES SAINTS. 16. TRUMP GIVEN AUTHORITY OVER EVERY TRIBE, TONGUE, AND NATION. 17. AMERICAN / BABYLONIAN APOCALYPSE. 18. RETURN OF CHRIST / FIRST RESURRECTION / RAPTURE.
THAT IS NOT PROPHECY… THE FOLLOWING IS PROPHETIC!
The Fall of Babylon
REVELATION 18:
1 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. 2 And he called out with a mighty voice,
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. 3 For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; 5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed. 7 As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’ 8 For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
9 And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning. 10 They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,
“Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
11 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, 12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.
14 “The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again!”
15 The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
16 “Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls! 17 For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste.”
And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off 18 and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning,
“What city was like the great city?”
19 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
“Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste. 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!”
21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,
“So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more; 22 and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more, 23 and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth.”
The teaching of a Great Worldwide Revival in the end days is based on the misinterpretation of Matthew 24:14. In context, the verse does not support such a teaching. Scripture speaks of an end times struggle and the endurance of a small remnant of Christians, emphasizing suffering, martyrdom, and the refinement of the Bride of Christ.
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
There is a false and misleading teaching that there will be, in the end days, a Great Worldwide Revival…
That teaching is based entirely on this one verse, Matthew 24:14, because it is the one and only verse in Scripture that would appear to almost, sort of, kind of like, support that teaching…
The problem is that, read and understood in context, even this verse says no such thing… I challenge you to read the verse as a part of the entire chapter and to try to understand it in its full context.
In order to make this verse speak of a massive, end times revival, one must rip it from context, isolate it, enlarge and inflate it, and with great eisegetical form, reinterpret it, adding a great deal of wishful thinking…
Scripture, including Matthew 24, speaks of an end times struggle and a small remnant of Christians who endure to the end and refuse the Mark of the Beast… It speaks to the suffering, death, and martyrdom of the Saints.
Scripture speaks of the Martyrs under the throne being told to wait a little longer until THE FULL NUMBER OF SAINTS HAVE BEEN KILLED, EVEN AS THEY WERE!
Scripture says of the Beast that “HE WAS GIVEN AUTHORITY TO MAKE WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS AND TO OVERCOME THEM”!
It is “HE WHO ENDURES TO THE END WHO WILL BE SAVED”
Modern preachers simply do not like endurance, or suffering, or martyrdom… It lowers attendance and empties the collection plates… So, they fill their churches with itchy eared people and they preach happy and imaginative sermons based on isolated happy verses, and full of fear calming, wishful thinking…
Fear calming, happy sermons, full of wishful thinking, built with careful eisegesis, will damn many a wannabe Christian to a Devil’s Hell…
The Bride of Christ will be refined, as gold, in the refiner’s fire… God wants a pure and holy bride for his Son, not a big one…
But preachers, more than anyone else, hate the refiner’s fire!
The Promise of God is not that He will keep you from Tribulation but that He will go through the tribulation with you and take you to Glory with him when it is finished…
TRIBULATION COMES
Matthew 24:
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those daysthe 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.
Revelation 13:
5 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, 8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear:
10 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.
Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Paul writes:
1 Corinthians 15:
51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
John, the Apostle, wrote:
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
Revelation 19:
6 Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,
“Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. 7 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; 8 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”—
for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
9 And the angel said[a] to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” 10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Revelation 20:
4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
In the light of these Scriptures, I would suggest to you that you have been lied to and taught a doctrine which calms your fears and feeds your daydreams, but violates both common sense and plain Scripture…
Ten of the original Apostles died as martyrs.
Stephen was stoned.
James lost his head.
Peter was crucified upside down.
Paul suffered tremendous persecution and died a martyr.
More than seventy million Christians have been martyred.
More than 16,000 Christians have been martyred in Nigeria over the last four years.
The lives of Christians are even now threatened in almost every nation in the world. The idea that Jesus is somehow obligated to rapture the church before any American Christians are called on to suffer or die for Jesus is absurd and narcissistic.
Paul, who would lose his head in a Roman prison, wrote these words:
Philippians 3:
8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
In the light of all of these things, some will continue to cling to happy doctrines and be deceived and drug into Hell by the great deceiver himself…
2 Thessalonians 2:
9 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.
If you insist on holding on to false and deceptive doctrine, you will receive the delusion sent from God, you will believe the lie, and you will be damned because you refused to love the truth and decided to defend your doctrine instead…
It is he who endures to the end who will be saved… He who holds on to the false hope of an early rapture is not going to make it…
The Promise of God is not that He will keep you from Tribulation but that He will go through the tribulation with you and take you to Glory with him when it is finished…
If anyone is destined for captivity,
into captivity he goes.
If anyone is to be killed with a sword,
with a sword he will be killed.
This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints.
This is a 25 minute sermon by me… I speak to getting ready for what is coming… ————————————————————————- Scripture: Revelation 13:7-10 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. 8 All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.
9 If anyone has an ear, he should listen:
10 If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a sword he will be killed.
This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints. ———————————————————————– Please listen and share…
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