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MOHAMED IN PURPLE RAIN

A hot date with Allah…

Prince and Mohamed Ali have something in common. The hour of decision has past and judgment has come.

…it is appointed for people to die once–and after this, judgment– Hebrews 9:27

If you are reading this, it is not too late for you, but the end of all things is fast approaching. The day is coming when the Church Age will close and there will be no more chances…

The reason that I started thinking about this post is that it bothers me that a post on Prince or Mohamed Ali will bring hundreds of readers, while a post on Biblical principles and Christian living may draw a dozen or less. From that is birthed this shameless ruse… Mohamed Ali in purple rain. The death of Prince and Ali give me one more chance to present you with the choice between life and death.

Joshua said, “Choose you, this day, whom you will serve…” In 2 Corinthians 6 we read, “Behold, now is ‘the acceptable time,’ behold, now is ‘the day of salvation’”—

Judgment awaits…

David…

TO RULE INSTEAD OF CHRIST

The Pope is the “Vicar of Christ.” Vicar means to rule in the place of or instead of. Dave Hunt, an Anti-Catholic Crusader, tells us that the word “Anti” as in Antichrist, means “against” AND “instead of.” He says that Antichrist will oppose Christ, while pretending to be Christ.” That, to me, is a damning statement.

All eyes were on September 2015. Well, not all eyes but the eyes that were opened by the Spirit of God and the eyes of the Pharisees and Professional Debunkers who were waiting to pounce, should nothing obvious happen.

Those of us who were watching, moved by observations of God’s Calendar, historical precedent, and the unmistakable signs in the Heavens, wondered aloud about the possibility of a worldwide financial crash or a major attack on Israel. We were all very careful to warn our audience that there remained the greatest possibility that nothing obvious would happen and that events could follow those dates by several months and still fit into the historical patterns.

The Pharisees and professional debunkers, based not on what we said and wrote, but solely on their own imaginations, accused us of prophesying the Rapture or the end of the world. But those of us who were watching, never prophesied at all. We merely pointed out easily verifiable, historical patterns and stated that, based on the testimony of Scripture and demonstrable historical patterns, it was very likely that something of earth-shattering importance would happen, in or around the month of September 2015.

When nothing obvious (to the spiritually blind) happened, the Pharisees and Professional Debunkers pointed in glee and accused us of falsely predicting the Rapture and the end of the world, forgetting that it was they, themselves, who put forth those ideas.

With all the signs that pointed to September 2015, the spiritually awake and the Watchmen on the Wall must go back and carefully look at that month and honestly ask what, in fact, did happen. We must assume that, as hard as God worked to bring attention to that month, something important, something that God wanted us to take note of must have happened.

Because the Rabbis, 2,000 years ago, were looking for Messiah to come riding into Jerusalem on a white horse, raise an army and defeat the Romans, the birth of a Savior in a stable in Bethlehem went unnoticed. Did Scripture tell them that Messiah would be born in Bethlehem? Yes. Were there signs in the Heavens? Yes. Did Scripture talk of a Suffering Servant? Yes. Did they recognize him? No. Why did they not recognize him? Because, Rabbis had taught for generations that when Messiah came, He would ride into Jerusalem on a white horse, raise an army and defeat the Romans. What the Scripture said did not matter anymore. Obvious signs in the Heavens… signs clearly understood by the magicians of Babylon, were blatantly ignored by the Rabbis and the leaders of the Jews. The highly venerated Rabbis were wrong and Israel missed the Messiah.

The same thing is happening today. The Church leaders, convinced, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the venerated pastors and teachers of yesterday were correct and that they know what will happen, are ignoring plain Scripture and obvious signs in the Heavens and in the earth because these signs are not big enough or bright enough and they do not line up with what the venerated teachers have taught for generations on end.

More than that, for the last 150 years or so, the venerated teachers and writers of Christian Fiction have been teaching that the Rapture would happen first and that there was nothing to look for because we won’t be here anyway. Scripture tells us exactly what to look for and Jesus commanded us to watch but never mind, there is nothing to look for, just keep busy and don’t think.

Contrary to the writings of today’s Pharisees and Debunkers much did happen in September of 2015, you have your list and I have mine. Was there one thing that happened that month that was worthy of all that attention? Even those of us who were spiritually sensitive were looking for something almost as obvious as the Messiah riding into Jerusalem on a white horse, looking for an army. What we got was as subtle as the birth of a baby in a stable in Bethlehem.

Jesus once looked the rulers of Israel in the eye and declared, “I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.” (John 5:43)

In September, between the end of the Shemitah and the last Blood Moon of a once in forever Biblical Tetrad, the Vicar of Christ, the one who “Rules instead of Christ”, a man, accepted as God by his followers and applauded by men, stood before the largest group of world leaders ever assembled, opened his mouth and said, “In my own name…”

“In my own name”

If it were not for the end of the Shemitah and all the historical events surrounding that date and if it were not for the last Blood Moon of a once in eternity tetrad, I would not have heard that, and neither would you.

Do not be concerned that the Doctors of Theology, Pastors, Pharisees, and Christian leaders have missed the revelation of the Man of Sin, The Jews missed the birth of Jesus, looking for a man on a horse.

Deception, powerful and supernatural deception is coming. May I quote Jesus? “Therefore, watch!”

David…

 

IS TRUMP OUR “CYRUS”?

“So we boiled my son and ate him…” 2 Kings 6:29

The deception runs deep. It is wishful thinking.

Do you know the Scriptures? Do you know when Cyrus rescued Israel? He did not rescue them from judgment, destruction, terror or death:

  • When Cyrus rescued Israel, they had been in captivity in Babylon for 70 years.
  • He rescued them after almost all of the people God had judged in Israel were dead and gone.
  • Cyrus rescued Israel seventy years after the siege of Jerusalem.
  • It is estimated that 90% of the Jews died in that siege.
  • Food got so short that the Bible tells us that mothers were cooking and eating their own children.
  • When Babylon breached the walls of Jerusalem, the blood flowed as high as the horses bellies.
  • The Temple was flattened and burned.
  • Those who survived had to endure a death march across the desert to Babylon.
  • Even the righteous Daniel made that march.
  • They lived, as slaves, in Babylon until they died. It was their children and grandchildren that Cyrus sent back to Israel.

This is not the time for Cyrus. Our Redeemer is coming on the clouds and He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Before He comes, we are going to suffer, in seven years, what Israel suffered for seventy…

David…

 

THE TRUMP THAT CANNOT SAVE

The Righteous Judgment of a Holy God will bring us down.

Do you believe that God will send in a savior and rescue the United States? Have you placed your hope and faith in Donald Trump? I will tell you clearly that that is not going to happen. This is why…

The American church has wrapped the cross so tightly in the flag that they have a huge problem separating God and Country… They are not the same.

From a human stand point, we want our Heaven here and we want it now. We acknowledge Heaven with our mouths and at least a part of our brain but our plans and thoughts and hopes all end at the grave… Heaven is a foreign land and the United States is our home. We have to fight that and it is a very real and a very difficult fight. Scripture says that we are foreigners wandering in a foreign land and Heaven is our home.

From God’s point of view, our trials, tribulations and suffering are insignificant in the light of the Glory we will receive in Heaven. If Jesus could die on a cross, why can’t you? Jesus received a great reward… so will you.

The Devil is not the bumbling idiot we make him out to be. He commands a huge army of fallen angels and demon spirits. There are demonic princes over every nation, state and neighborhood. They have a plan that they have been working on for thousands of years. History is not a series of accidents and their consequences… it is the result of a very real war in the heavens… Satan’s plans being played out in a desperate attempt to beat his own creator and retain his position as god of this world forever.

The devil has his people… very high and powerful people. These are people who said yes to the same offer of wealth and power Jesus refused. These people can be seen as the manipulators of the marionettes who appear to run governments. When you look at politics, the ruling class has all sold out to the devil. There is no such thing as a righteous leader. What you are looking at, in this political theater, is a puppet show. They know who is going to win and if they make a big mistake and the wrong candidate wins, they will be okay because he is no less a puppet than the other. If you ever look up above the stage and see the puppeteers, you will never see the world the same again.

Add to that, the prophetic timeline. The generation that will not pass away before the end, turns 68 this year… that puts us in a time vice. The New World Order is a euphemism for the Kingdom of the Beast and it is rising. There can only be one super power. In the end, that is the New World Order. That order cannot rise unless and until the United States collapses. We have two things working simultaneously… God’s time schedule and the devil’s last stand. The people on top and their puppets… Clinton, Sanders, Trump and the rest, are all working, together and separately, to bring down the United States. They are all citizens of the New World Order and they will do anything to see the United States defeated. The politic thing is a show to keep you from the truth. So God’s timeline is almost up. God has told us that the world will be under one government, one King, and one religion. That kingdom cannot rise unless the United States falls.

The final point is that it is the Righteous Judgment of a Holy God that will bring us down. He will allow the devil and his minions to work the evil but it is God’s hand that is behind the coming destruction. We have offered the blood of 70 million children to Baal, on the altar of Abortion. We have glorified sodomy. We have called good evil and evil good. We have earned this judgment. The church in America is in utter apostasy. The Church is pro-abortion, pro-sodomy and, to a large part, antisemitic. We have major church leaders taking their people back under Rome and the authority of the Pope. Judgment comes first to the House of God.

That is why I am firmly and absolutely convinced that there will be no last minute save… It is out of the question.

The Donald is a Trump that cannot save.

David…

 

SON OF GOD

Anyone who rejects Jesus Christ as the Son of God, is a Muslim.

Islam teaches that everyone is born a Muslim and only ceases to be a Muslim if they convert to another religion.

The Prophet Muhammad said, “No babe is born but upon Fitra (as a Muslim). It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Polytheist.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 033, Number 6426)

The Koran, 17:111 says “And say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who has not taken a son and Who has not a partner in the kingdom, and Who has not a helper to save Him from disgrace; and proclaim His greatness magnifying (Him).”

1 John 2:22 says, “Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? This one is the Antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son.”

John 3:18 says”…anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.”

Let God Be God, let Allah be Antichrist, and let every Muslim be a condemned liar.

David…

THE INSANE DELUSION

In the United States, Christianity has claimed that health, wealth and prosperity are the sign of a Christian…

We are strangers in a foreign land:

  • Jesus spoke of forsaking all, taking up the Cross and following Him.
  • Jesus told the rich young ruler to sell all that he had, give the money to the poor and follow Him.
  • Jesus said that those who love Father, mother, spouse, children, houses or lands more than they love Him are not worthy of Him.
  • The Disciples walked away from everything to follow Jesus.
  • The Apostles were poor and persecuted.
  • Paul wondered about the known world, living in other people’s houses and eating other people’s food. He was beaten, stoned, shipwrecked, imprisoned and finally beheaded for the Cross of Christ.
  • Stephen, a new convert, was stoned to death.
  • Peter was crucified upside down.
  • John spent his last years exiled on a prison island.
  • The history of the Church over two thousand years is a story of poverty, misery and persecution.
  • Christians around the world today are persecuted and ostracized from society…

BUT, in the United States, Christianity has claimed that health, wealth and prosperity are the sign of a Christian…

Around the world, baptized believers must abandon all in order to follow Jesus. Discipleship is the costliest venture in the world… unless you live in America.

Stand by, the American Christian Illusion is about to come crashing down. We will soon see who loves Jesus and who loves prosperity.

The insane delusion is over…

David…

 

TRIBBERS

Jesus is waiting to see who wins…

  • People, of every Trib Persuasion, can “prove” that they are right…

  • They can all “prove” that the others are all wrong.

  • They all inform us that “If we really understood the Bible, we would KNOW they were right!”

  • The only people who believe their “proof” are the people who already believe what they are trying to “prove”.

  • They really impress themselves…

  • It is all the people, outside of their little click, who do not see any rationality whatsoever in their “proof”.

  • And so we go round, and round, and round, each convinced that his eisegesis is better than the other guy’s eisegesis…

  • Ad nauseum.

David…

 

ON THE MASONIC PROBLEM

So Masonry jealously conceals its secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray. (Morals and Dogma Pages 104-105)

George Washington 32nd Degree Mason

Do you have Masons in your church? Lower ranking Masons may not yet be aware of what they are in but the Master Mason is there to sit on the Board and make trouble. My Grandfather, was both a 33rd Degree Mason in the Scottish Rite and a Lifetime Deacon at First Baptist Church. After he died and my Grandmother was moved to a nursing home, I was told that My Uncle had thrown all his books out at the curb. I found his Masonic texts, including Morals and Dogma and the three volumes of the H.L. Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. They were worn and heavily underlined. I knew nothing at the time and the books had an insert that asked that they be returned to the Masonic Lodge and I did so. Now, I have access to the books online and I have Morals and Dogma in PDF format, but I wish I had the originals. The following are excerpts from Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma and Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. The holiest books in Free Masonry.

I would prefer that people not argue with me about the Masonic Religion. I have placed, in this article, multiple quotes from books considered sacred by Masons. If you wish to defend your lodge, please do so by explaining what you think Albert Pike and Albert Mackey meant in the books quoted.

Albert Pike

Masonry, like all the religions, all Mysteries, Hermetiscism, and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of it’s symbols to mislead those who deserve to be mislead; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those who are unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it. So God Himself incapacitates many men, by color-blindness, to distinguish colors, and leads the masses away from the highest Truth, giving them the power to attain only so much of it as it is profitable to them to know. Every age has had a religion suited to its capacity.

The Teachers, even of Christianity, are, in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar*.

So Masonry jealously conceals its secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray. (Morals and Dogma Pages 104-105)

* Sohar is “the completest embodiments of Occultism.” page 321

All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it: everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the Illuminati… is borrowed from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and their Symbols. (Morals and Dogma, pg 744, Albert Pike)

Masonry, around whose alters the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucious and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim, (Morals and Dogma, pg 226)

The first Masonic Legislator whose memory is preserved to us by history, was Buddah (pg 277)

Every Masonic Lodge is a Temple of religion; and its teachings are instructions in religion (pg 213)

We have therefore, in the 24th degree (Masonic Ritual), recited the principal incidents in the legend of Osiris and Isis … Everything good in Nature comes from Osiris… Osiris was the image of generative power. This was expressed by his symbolic statues … Osiris and Isis were the Sun and Moon … and is the All-Seeing Eye in our Lodges … Osiris was invoked as the God that resides in the Sun (pgs. 474-477)

“The Supreme being of the Egyptians was Amun, a secret and concealed God, the Unknown Father of the Gnostics, the Source of Divine Life, and of all force, the Plenitude of all, comprehending all things in Himself, the original Light. He creates nothing, but everything eminates from Him: and all other Gods are but his manifestations. From Him, by the utterance of a Word, eminated Neith, the Divine Mother of all things, the Primitive THOUGHT, the FORCE, that puts everything in movement, the SPIRIT everywhere extended, the Diety of Light and Mother of the Sun. …..Of the Supreme beings, Osiris was the image, Source of all Good in the Moral and Physical World, and a constant foe of Typhone, the Genius of Evil, the Satan of Gnosticism, brute matter, deemed to be always at fued with the spirit that flowed from the Diety; and over whom Har-Oeri, the Redeemer, Son of Isis and Osiris, is finally to prevail.” (pg 281)

It (Freemasonry) reverences all the great reformers. It sees Moses, the Lawgiver of the Jews, in Confucius and Zorastor, in Jesus of Nazareth, and in the Arabian Iconoclast, Great teachers of Morality, and Eminent reformers, if no more… (pg 525)

On page 102, Albert Pike defines Satan as “the negation of God … For the initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil … They represent this Force … the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend.”

Albert Pike says that the Bible lied when it identified Lucifer as Satan, and that Satan is NOT a person, but a Force, by which the Bibles testimony of Lucifer as Satan was a false legend! Thus he lays the foundation for the exaltation of Lucifer, as god!

“LUCIFER, the Light-Bearer! Strange and mysterious name given to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the light … doubt it not!” (Morals and Dogma pg 321)

Albert Mackey

“The MASONIC RELIGION should be, by all of us of the high degree, maintained in the purity of the LUCIFERIAN doctrine If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (sic) whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him?

“Yes, LUCIFER IS GOD, and unfortunately Adonay is also god…

Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the BELIEF IN LUCIFER, THE EQUAL OF ADONAY but Lucifer, God of Light and God of GOOD, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the GOD OF DARKNESS AND EVIL.” (de Larive, A.C., La Femme et l’enfant dans la Franc, Maconnerei Universelle, Paris, 1889, p. 588)

Albert Mackey

Mackey, Albert G., Clegg, Robert I., and Haywood, H.L. Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Revised Edition. Three Volumes. (Chicago: The Masonic History Company, 1946)

On the contrary, we contend, without any sort of hesitation, that Freemasonry is, in every sense of the word except one, and that its least philosophical, an eminently religious institution–that it is indebted solely to the religious element it contains for its origin as well as its continued existence.. . . The tendency of all Freemasonry is toward religion. If it makes any progress, its progress is toward that holy end. Look at its ancient landmarks, its sublime ceremonies, its profound symbols and allegories–all inculcating religious doctrine, commanding religious observance, and teaching religious truth, and who can deny that it is eminently a religious Institution. . . . We open and close our Lodges with prayer; we invoke the presence of the Most

High upon all our labors; we demand of our neophytes a profession of trusting belief in the existence and the superintending care of God; and we teach them to bow with humility and reverence at His awful name., while His holy Law is widely opened upon our altars” (Mackey: 847). (See Religion of Freemasonry) ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRY AND ITS KINDRED SCIENCES by ALBERT C. MACKEY M. D.

“From all this we can see that the altar in Freemasonry is not merely a convenient article of furniture, intended like a table, to hold a Bible. It is a sacred utensil of religion, intended, like the altars of the ancient temples, for religious uses, and thus identifying Freemasonry, by its necessary existence in our lodges, as a religious institution. Its presence should also lead the contemplative Freemason to view the ceremonies in which it is employed with solemn reverence, as being part of a really religious worship” (Mackey: 56). See Altar ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRY AND ITS KINDRED SCIENCES by ALBERT C. MACKEY M. D.

“Be assured, that God is equally present with the pious Hindoo in the temple, the Jew in the synagogue, the Mohammedan in the mosque, and the Christian in the church” (Mackey: 409-410)

Albert Pike, GRAND COMMANDER, SUPREME COUCIL, 33° ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY, SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA 1859 – 1891, Morals and Dogma: http://crossbearer-brian.tripod.com/id192.htm

Mackey, Albert G., Clegg, Robert I., and Haywood, H.L. Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Revised Edition. Three Volumes. (Chicago: The Masonic History Company, 1946)

THE HERESY OF THE APOSTATE CHURCH

Have you heard that the End Times Believers overcome the Devil by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony”? Did you know that that is not true? Did you know that that is a demonic half-truth, propagated by a Devil who loves half-truths and mixture?

One of the sickest things that has overcome, overwhelmed, and made useless the Church in the United States is the practice of preaching a censored and sterilized Gospel. Happy Sermons, limited to happy verses…

Much of Scripture is written in triplets and Revelation 12:11 is no exception. You can listen to a hundred sermons on that verse and in ninety eight of them, you will hear only two thirds of the verse.

  1. The Blood of the Lamb
  2. The Word of their testimony

But there are three things that bring them the victory, not two!

Revelation 12:11 They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not love their lives in the face of death.

  1. The Blood of the Lamb
  2. The word of their testimony
  3. They did not love their own lives in the face of death.

If you leave out number three, you turn the Word of God into a lie.

Number three is unpleasant and unhappy to preachers who have not yet embraced the eternal. Death, to most preachers today, seems to be the end. To find a preacher who has a real and vibrant faith that goes beyond the grave is rare indeed, and so number three is never read or talked about.

Preachers Love John 3:16 and 17,

16 “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”

But no modern preacher in his right mind would ever teach on verse 18-22,

18 Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

19 “This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed. 21 But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

How many times have you heard 2 Chronicles 7:14 quoted and preached on?

14 (If) My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Can you remember hearing 2 Chronicles 7:19-22 quoted or used as the subject of a sermon?

19 However, if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My name I will banish from My presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. 21 As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple? 22 Then they will say: Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They clung to other gods and worshiped and served them. Because of this, He brought all this ruin on them.

These are just two examples but it is a systematic heresy. This is based on Church Growth books and seminars, and it has led to an apostate church and the point where the vast majority of American Christians have a warped and twisted understanding of God, Jesus Christ and the Gospel.

We love sermons on how the angels led Peter and James out of prison… past the locked gates… but no one talks about John the Baptist losing his head with Jesus just down the street. No one talks about Stephen being stoned, no one talks about James and Paul losing their heads or the years Paul spent in prison, cold and hungry.

We love the verse, Philippians 4:13, and we twist it to make it say things it never did…

13 I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.

How many times have you heard that verse preached in context?

10 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that once again you renewed your care for me. You were, in fact, concerned about me but lacked the opportunity to show it. 11 I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content—whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need. 13 I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me. 14 Still, you did well by sharing with me in my hardship.

I can learn to be content in all circumstances? I can learn to be content with little? Wow… that isn’t what I want to do through Christ! Paul was content in all circumstances? What kind of circumstances was Paul content in?

  • many more imprisonments,
  • far worse beatings,
  • near death many times.
  • Five times I received 39 lashes from Jews.
  • Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans.
  • Once I was stoned by my enemies.
  • Three times I was shipwrecked.
  • I have spent a night and a day in the open sea.
  • On frequent journeys, I faced
  • dangers from rivers,
  • dangers from robbers,
  • dangers from my own people,
  • dangers from the Gentiles,
  • dangers in the city,
  • dangers in the open country,
  • dangers on the sea,
  • and dangers among false brothers;
  • labor and hardship,
  • many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,
  • often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.

(2 Corinthians 11)

Are these the things I can do through Christ who strengthens me? Why didn’t the Preacher ever tell me?

If you only know the happy verses, what are you going to do when they come for you, Christian? What are you going to do?

David…

 

 

THE REAL HISTORY OF THE PRETRIBULATIONAL DOCTRINE

Our American Pretrib doctrine started with a Jesuit Priest, writing under Jewish pen name, through the founder of the Plymouth Brethren in England to Dwight L. Moody, a shoe salesman turned Sunday School Teacher, turned Evangelist.

“The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty” by Ben Ezra, is the origin of the Pretribulational doctrine in the modern church. ‘Ben Ezra’ is the pseudonym for a Roman Jesuit priest named Manuel (sometimes Emmanuel) de Lacunza (1731 – 1801). The pseudonym may have been a way of making the work acceptable to Jewish readers and diverting attention from the station of the author.

This is the first mention of the doctrine, outside of a few obscure references from the writings of the Church Fathers. Prior to this book, there was a brief introduction to the subject by another Jesuit, a man named Rivera, who was heavily involved in the Spanish Inquisition. Prior to that, there is no reference to the Rapture being before the Tribulation in either Catholic or Protestant literature. Some will object that it was taught by the Church Fathers but Lacunza took a collection of less than ten sentences, from as many authors, and developed it into a six hundred page book.

The book was taken to England, where it was translated by a man named Edward Irving, a minister of the Church of Scotland. It was Irving’s translation, available here, that fell into the hands of John Nelson Darby, the founder of a sect called the Plymouth Brethren. Darby was fascinated by this book, originally believing that it was written by a converted Jew. The ideas overtook him and consumed his life. His doctrine was changed forever and his writings are the foundation of Dispensationalism and the Pretrib Rapture in the English speaking world.

From a different angle, a young girl from Scotland, Margaret MacDonald, a very early Pentecostal and follower of Irving, had a vision of a secret rapture where those “Baptized in the Spirit” were taken out of the world prior to the Tribulation. This vision established the Pre-Trib Rapture as a solid doctrine in Pentecostal Churches. John Darby would later meet Ms. MacDonald and they would compare notes. There is no doubt that her vision served to cement the doctrine in the mind and heart of John Nelson Darby.

In 1867, an American Evangelist by the name of Dwight L. Moody visited England. It was there that he met Darby, who taught him the basics of dispensationalism, including the idea of a Pretribulational Rapture. Moody came home, thrilled with his newfound doctrine. He did not have the theological background to understand all of the implications of Dispensationalism, but as an Evangelist, he could not miss the implications of the teaching that Jesus could return at any time.

Soon after, Darby made a trip to the United States. While in the States, he met a theologian named C. I. Scofield. Scofield went on to publish his annotated Bible, which became the standard for American Protestants and Evangelicals for  a hundred years. In the Scofield Reference Bible, the Jesuit doctrine of Rivera, Lacunza, Darby, McDonald, Moody and Scofield is presented as Gospel Truth and established fact. This despite the fact that Scofield’s fellow theologians begged him not to do it and at least one member of his editorial staff resigned over the issue.

The Doctrine was almost instantly picked up by every evangelist in America… The idea that Jesus could return at any minute, scared the Hell out of sinners who flooded the altars and the offering plates. It was about to die out, having lost its shock value in a world that did not believe in God anyway. Then came the Left Behind books and movies. Suddenly, the Christian world was on fire with the doctrine of a Pre Tribulation Rapture… Suddenly, the whole world was staring at the clouds.

Our American Pretrib doctrine started with a Jesuit Priest, writing under Jewish pen name, through the founder of the Plymouth Brethren in England to Dwight L. Moody, a shoe salesman turned Sunday School Teacher, turned Evangelist. (Moody had no formal Bible training.) Moody brought it back to the United States… From there, it was spread by the graduates of Moody Bible Institute and throughout the Evangelical Churches. It was reinforced by the notes in the Scofield Bible, which many preachers considered to be almost as inspired as the Scriptures themselves. After that, it got picked up by the writers of a series of novels that became movies… and the rest is history.

I defy anyone to find even the words Pretribulational Rapture in the writings of any American church or denomination, prior to Moody’s return from England…

This is the real, historical history of the doctrine. It may be fully researched. I have made available here, the entire six hundred plus page book that started it all… Welcome to Jesuit Land!

David…