88 REASONS IN 88
WAS AN OVERWHELMING SUCCESS FOR SATAN
AND THE POWERS OF HELL…
88 REASONS WHY THE RAPTURE WILL BE IN 1988
Hundreds of pastors and a couple of entire denominations went nuts over the book… The result of all that foolishness was that denominations instructed their pastors to stop teaching prophecy at all… The result today is that very, very few Christians are prepared to face what is coming… The first outcome of that book was to make thousands of Christians look like idiots… The long term effect of that book is Hell for millions…
ALMOST NO ONE IN THE AMERICAN CHURCH HAS ANY IDEA WHAT IS COMING; EVEN FEWER ARE PREPARED TO ENDURE THAT LEVEL OF SUFFERING!
88 REASONS IN 88 WAS AN OVERWHELMING SUCCESS FOR SATAN, AND THE POWERS OF HELL…
We should never have believed the author. When the damage was done, he and his books should have been condemned. Pastors who used it to lead their flocks astray should have been reprehended… But ceasing, en masse, as a church, to teach prophecy at all was NOT the answer… It was, in fact, the response, but it was NOT God’s way…
We need to play catchup and we needed to start before now…
The news makes Christians nervous… The churches answer is to preach willful ignorance… “Turn off the TV and know nothing… Ignorance is the road to peace…”
Pastors need to stick their noses in their Bibles and their knees on the floor… The only Godly answer is to connect current events to Biblical prophecy!
NOW is the time to teach people about suffering, pain, and martyrdom in the church… The days of Happy Church are over… We need more than Power-Verses, smoke, and lights!
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.
Those of us who grew up in denominational churches are at a terrible disadvantage. They told us, plainly, that the Bible is the Word of God and the ultimate authority in every situation. Then, often not so subtly, they taught us that all Scripture must be interpreted in a manner consistent with our denomination’s doctrine and beliefs…
“As Baptists, we know that you cannot lose your salvation. With that in mind, what do you think this verse could mean?”
With those words, a professor at a Baptist college once started the discussion on Galatians 5:4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by the Law; you have fallen from grace.
As an older student, I had prepared an argument: “You cannot be severed from that to which you are not attached. You cannot fall from where you are not. You cannot enter Heaven without Christ or apart from grace.”
It was however, obvious from his opening statement that such arguments would not be allowed…
Today, in my own mind, I can imagine a professor at Southern Methodist University opening a discussion on John 10:28 “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.” with the words, “As Methodists, we know that you can lose your salvation. With that in mind, what do you believe this verse might mean?”
Those of us who grew up in denominational churches are at a terrible disadvantage. They told us, plainly, that the Bible is the Word of God and the ultimate authority in every situation. Then, often not so subtly, they taught us that all Scripture must be interpreted in a manner consistent with our denomination’s doctrine and beliefs… Passages that would seem to reenforce those doctrines were exaggerated, repeated, preached on and taught. Scriptures that, even on the surface, might bring those doctrines into question, were ignored, glanced over, or sometimes imaginatively misinterpreted. While the Methodists freely taught on Galatians 5:4, they cleverly (and intentionally) skipped over John 10:28. The Baptists simply reversed that practice.
Midlife, God gave me a great opportunity… forced to leave one denomination and adopt another, I was given the opportunity to honestly search the Scriptures to find the truth when denominational distinctives clashed… I quickly came to the conclusion that the denominational distinctives on both sides were basically garbage being used to convince parishioners to never visit the church down the street…
Please, for God’s sake and your own, read the Scriptures in plain language… Understand that, while it often uses figures of speech, the Bible says what it means and means what it says… If you will do that, you will cry a lot, learn a lot, and come out a different person than you are now…
An argument against the belief that the rapture occurs before the tribulation, citing Paul, Jesus, and John as witnesses to the contrary. Paul states the dead in Christ rise first, while Jesus specifies the elect are gathered immediately after the tribulation, and John confirms this resurrection follows the tribulation.
You disagree with Paul, Jesus, and John and say that the rapture happens before the tribulation???
In 1 Thessalonians 4, Paul writes, “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are still alive 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.”
The dead in Christ MUST rise first. When do the dead in Christ rise?
In Matthew 24, Jesus tells us, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days:
The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the celestial powers will be shaken.
30 “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the peoples 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 He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Jesus says that the elect of God will be raised, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days…”
In Revelation 20, after the tribulation, John sees the resurrection of the elect and he writes, “They (the elect) came to life and reigned with the Messiah for 1,000 years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1,000 years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
So Paul says that the Dead in Christ are raised before the rapture. Jesus says that the elect are raised “after the tribulation”. John, after the tribulation, at the return of Jesus, says that he sees the elect raised from the dead. He tells us that “THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION”.
You disagree with Paul, Jesus, and John and say that the rapture happens before the tribulation…
People in general, and Christians in particular, tend to miss the big picture… If you do not love the truth and if you do not cling to the cross, you will be deceived…
COUNT ON IT!
The Hegelian Dialectic is very real… it works, and some of you have been manipulated and deceived by and through it…
They raised the evil left… they empowered the most ungodly and evil people and organizations in the world, raising them up to incredible heights…
When you were terrified beyond all reason, they brought in a hero to save the day… He himself was evil beyond measure, but you overlooked his malevolence because he promised to help you by fighting your enemies and subduing and controlling those who terrified you…
It worked like a charm…
Those on the left were deceived… they were convinced that they would win… The Devil lied to them. They lost all restraint and put their most evil desires, plans and actions on display… they had no fear… but the Devil was just using them… now, they are losing bigtime, and they are terrified!
Now, Christians are bowing to the Devil himself because the same Devil who raised up the Left is now promising to defend and protect the Right… Millions of people who think themselves Christian have fallen into his hands…
When the Devil puts forth the most evil and corrupt of men and he promises to rescue, defend and protect the church… Those who love comfort more than Jesus, fall for the game…
We are headed into a Golden Age… Babel is being restored… The old gods are returning… Men and nations are being united… One World Government is rising… The Messiah of Israel, known to Christians as the Antichrist, is rising… He promises to defend Israel. At this point, they would openly embrace Satan if he promised to defend their nation. The same man promises to defend the church, and Christians worship him. The same man poses with a Saudi Prince and a crystal ball, and the Muslims are certain that he is on their side….
Eden, without God, is the immediate future… But in a very short time, it will be destroyed, and millions who always thought themselves Christian, will find themselves dancing in the fire with the man they believed, against Scripture and common sense, would save them…
THE LEFT WING AND THE RIGHT WING ARE ON THE SAME BIRD… AND THAT BIRD IS IN A KAMIKAZE DIVE TOWARDS HELL!
Jeconiah, the last heir to David’s throne, reigned briefly and was cursed by God as childless. After nearly 35 years in prison, he was released, married, and had a son, preserving David’s lineage. Ultimately, Jesus Christ descends from this “bad king,” highlighting that hope remains despite dire circumstances.
Jesus Christ would descend from a bad king who spent almost 35 years in prison… There is hope for you…
Jeconiah, who was eighteen years old when he took the throne of Judah, reigned three months and ten days, beginning December 9, 598 BC. He was the last living heir to the throne of David.
Of his reign, the Bible simply states… Jeconiah did evil in the sight of the Lord.
In Jeremiah 22, Jeconiah is cursed by God, who says, 30 Thus says the Lord: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”
But God would have mercy on him and in Matthew, he is listed in the genealogy of Jesus…
Matthew 1:12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel…
After three months as king, Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and took Jeconiah captive.
The young king would spend 34 years, 11 months and 28 days (2 days short of 35 years) in a Babylonian prison. He had no children. Everything looked like God had reneged on his promises… no messiah would come from the line of David.
Then, Nebuchadnezzar died. The new and wicked King Amel-Marduk, released Jeconiah and gave him a seat above all the other kings living in Babylon.
At 52 years of age, Jeconiah would marry and give birth to a son. He would become the grandfather of Zerubbabel, who would return to the land and become the first governor of the restored nation… The lineage of David was preserved and Jesus Christ would descend from a bad king who spent almost 35 years in prison…
I was pastoring a Venezuelan church in the State of Delta Amacuro. It was 1993. Tough place, hard life…
The town was called Volcan, not far from Tucupita. It was at the end of the road. If you wanted to go further into the Delta, you would have to take a boat. One of our neighbors had small house about ten minutes down the river… He lived in town and they were nice people. When the German tourists would come in a bus, they would go down the river to his “River House”. He would strip his teenage daughters naked with some native trinkets tied around their waists and in their hair… The tourists would pay about $20 apiece to take pictures with the girls… It was that kind of place.
The first Sunday I preached there, I had a couple of topless native girls sitting in the front pew… Quite a distraction considering that it was my first try at preaching in Spanish!!!!
But it was a going church… nice building. We ran perhaps thirty on a good Sunday. The Gospel was being preached.
One day a man came to my door and asked me to come to his house and pray for a young man who was dying. I said yes, but when I told a couple of men from the church, they panicked. “If you go there and he dies, they will kill you!!!”
The house was a mansion (by local standards) and it belonged to a drug cartel. I was informed that the people who lived there were killers and they were armed to the teeth…
Somehow, I had no fear and I believed that God would have me go. When I got there, they let me in with a somber and heavy mood that was almost contagious.
Every table in the house was covered with guns and ammunition… from pistols to sub machineguns. There were a good number of AK47s on display… a bit unnerving to say the least!
They took me to a back room where a young man, likely in his twenties, lay dying. They had him dressed for his funeral. He made eye contact with me but could not speak. I prayed for him, asked him to give his life to Jesus and suggested what he might say to God at that point.
Long story short, he died and they did not kill me…
But my question is: What would you have done? Would you have gone or would you have stayed in the church and prayed for the rapture?
And yes, you can ask my wife… this is a true story.
PRAY-THINK-PRAY And understand that Jesus said that they will turn you over to be killed….
The content invites viewers to reconsider Revelation 13:18 by adhering to traditional methods of biblical interpretation rather than relying on Jewish mysticism and numerology. The ten-minute video aims to provide clarity and insights on the concept of the “man of sin” through a disciplined exegetical approach.
What if we approach Revelation 13:18 exactly as we have been taught to interpret all Scripture? What if we prove Scripture with Scripture? What if we forget Jewish mysticism and numerology and apply the ancient and proven rules of exegesis instead? What do we learn about the man of sin????
In this ten minute video, I do just that and the results are as crystal clear as they are amazing…
Muses of Sicily, essay we now A somewhat loftier task! Not all men love Coppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods, Woods worthy of a Consul let them be. Now the last age by Cumae’s Sibyl sung Has come and gone, and the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew: Justice returns, returns old Saturn’s reign, With a new breed of men sent down from heaven. Only do thou, at the boy’s birth in whom The iron shall cease, the golden race arise, Befriend him, chaste Lucina; ’tis thine own Apollo reigns. And in thy consulate, This glorious age, O Pollio, shall begin, And the months enter on their mighty march. Under thy guidance, whatso tracks remain Of our old wickedness, once done away, Shall free the earth from never-ceasing fear. He shall receive the life of gods, and see Heroes with gods commingling, and himself Be seen of them, and with his father’s worth Reign o’er a world at peace. For thee, O boy, First shall the earth, untilled, pour freely forth Her childish gifts, the gadding ivy-spray With foxglove and Egyptian bean-flower mixed, And laughing-eyed acanthus. Of themselves, Untended, will the she-goats then bring home Their udders swollen with milk, while flocks afield Shall of the monstrous lion have no fear. Thy very cradle shall pour forth for thee Caressing flowers. The serpent too shall die, Die shall the treacherous poison-plant, and far And wide Assyrian spices spring. But soon As thou hast skill to read of heroes’ fame, And of thy father’s deeds, and inly learn What virtue is, the plain by slow degrees With waving corn-crops shall to golden grow, From the wild briar shall hang the blushing grape, And stubborn oaks sweat honey-dew. Nathless Yet shall there lurk within of ancient wrong Some traces, bidding tempt the deep with ships, Gird towns with walls, with furrows cleave the earth. Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be, Her hero-freight a second Argo bear; New wars too shall arise, and once again Some great Achilles to some Troy be sent. Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man, No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark Ply traffic on the sea, but every land Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more Shall feel the harrow’s grip, nor vine the hook; The sturdy ploughman shall loose yoke from steer, Nor wool with varying colours learn to lie; But in the meadows shall the ram himself, Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine. While clothed in natural scarlet graze the lambs. ‘Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,’ Sang to their spindles the consenting Fates By Destiny’s unalterable decree. Assume thy greatness, for the time draws nigh, Dear child of gods, great progeny of Jove! See how it totters- the world’s orbed might, Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound, All, see, enraptured of the coming time! Ah! might such length of days to me be given, And breath suffice me to rehearse thy deeds, Nor Thracian Orpheus should out-sing me then, Nor Linus, though his mother this, and that His sire should aid- Orpheus Calliope, And Linus fair Apollo. Nay, though Pan, With Arcady for judge, my claim contest, With Arcady for judge great Pan himself Should own him foiled, and from the field retire. Begin to greet thy mother with a smile, O baby-boy! ten months of weariness For thee she bore: O baby-boy, begin! For him, on whom his parents have not smiled, Gods deem not worthy of their board or bed.
The passage discusses the context of Isaiah 6:8, emphasizing God’s command to deliver a message of judgment to unheeding people. It critiques contemporary preachers who avoid discussing God’s potential punishment for disobedience, contrasting with scriptural warnings and prophecies. The overall theme is the necessity of sincere repentance and awareness of divine consequences.
Isaiah 6:
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
This is one of the most famous verses in the Scripture and many know it by heart… However, very, very few Christians have ever read it in context…
Isaiah 6:
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:
“‘Keep on hearing but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ 10 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” 11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste, 12 and the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. 13 And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.
I have had preachers tell me to my face that God would never send sickness, famine or death… Most of us know 2 Chronicles 7:14, but have you ever read verse 13?
2 Chronicles 7:
13 When Ishut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
After God contradicts the sloppy-grace preachers, He continues…
14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
BUT…
But preachers somehow always seem to ignore the “but”.
19 “But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 22 Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’”
Jeremiah 14
10 Thus says the Lord concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”
11 The Lord said to me: “Do not pray for the welfare of this people. 12 Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
Lying Prophets
13 Then I said: “Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” 14 And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. 15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.
Make a note of this passage in Jeremiah… we will see these words again…
Jeremiah 15:
1Then the Lord said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! 2 And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’
The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity
Lamentations 2: 5 The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
13 What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you?
14 Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading.
Revelation 13:
6 He began to speak blasphemies against God: to blaspheme His name and His dwelling—those who dwell in heaven. 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.
Pay attention here, you have heard these words before…
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.
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