IMMEDIATELY AFTER

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…

Wow… Who am I to believe?????

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

RESTORING EDEN, WITHOUT GOD!

Eden, without God, is the immediate future…

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!

YOU NEED JESUS, NOT TRUMP!

David…

TIME IS UP

The separation of the goats from the sheep is in full swing…

The separation of the goats from the sheep is in full swing…

Those who love the good life and look to Trump for salvation and peace are standing with their feet in hardened cement… they will neither look at, nor even think about the Truth; their minds are made up and their loyalty is immovable. They love this world and its pleasures… Heaven is something to talk about at funerals.

Those who love the terrible truth that this world is at its end, are looking towards Heaven with a steadfast gaze. They are prepared to endure Hell on earth. As Paul once wrote, “if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.”

One group is attracted to the cross, wanting to be identified with Jesus in his suffering and death. The other group wants to skip all the pain and know Christ in the power of his resurrection; without the cross…

Not long ago, people were moving freely from one group to the other… The blind were being cured at an incredible rate… Facebook and other social media abounded with the testimonies of those who suddenly saw and embraced the truth… Not anymore.

Today, the groups are tightly closed. The blind remain blind and swell with pride, embracing the lie. No one who sees the truth is backsliding or falling away from the truth.

The goats are in their corral and the sheep in theirs… The gates are fast sliding shut. The Goats are happy to be away from the sheep and the sheep are thrilled to be with their shepherd.

I am pretty sure that the same thing is happening around the world. In America, the wall of partition between those who have embraced America, the good life and Trump, from those who have embraced Jesus, the cross and Heaven, is standing tall and immovable.

Yet perhaps God will give one more chance. When God called Paul, He said, “I will show him those things which he must suffer for my Name’s sake.” If you are willing to trade the good life for suffering, death and a cross, you must ask God, and you must ask him now!

Trump or Jesus… Heaven or Hell… I am not even certain that the option is still open. Still, you should try… Will you be a good citizen and fight for your country or will you choose to wander as a pilgrim and a stranger in a foreign land? The good life or a cross? The peace that comes from blindness and ignorance or the light that exposes the depth of the evil that surrounds you? Heaven or Hell? Those are the questions you must either face or ignore….

Revelation 13:

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 end is here, and it is here now…

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

David…

CONTEXT AND THE JUDGMENT OF GOD

Extremists love to quote Scripture out of context.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath…
The extremists always use the first part of the verse and finish it with three little dots…
Did you never wonder what they are so carefully omitting?????

As born again Christians, we are spared from the wrath and judgment of God as concerns our personal sin. However, as with many issues, Christians, and in particular Western Christians, have taken this truth to a heretical extreme.

And yes, truth pushed to the ridicules extreme becomes heresy.

The wrath from which we are saved is not the tribulation, or the wrath of God on the earth in general, it is the wrath poured out in Hell against sinners who have rejected Jesus.

Extremists love to quote Scripture out of context.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath…

The extremists always use the first part of the verse and finish it with three little dots…

Did you never wonder what they are so carefully omitting?????

The whole verse reads “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.” Even reading the verse in its entirety tells you that it is speaking of salvation versus damnation. If you read the entire passage, you cannot ever make that mean the wrath of God poured out on a sinful world in the tribulation. In its proper context, wrath is the opposite of salvation. We are speaking of Heaven and Hell, not the tribulation…

But… Pretribbers needed a proof text and the first half of that verse, removed from context, would work to support their fantasy, and it is such a happy lie!

When God judges nations and peoples, Christians often get hurt. The good news is that God goes through it with them, and when they die, they go to Heaven and not Hell. Many nations have been judged by God and destroyed. When that happened, Christians were hurt and killed. When the river flooded Kerrville, Christians died…

Speaking of the days in which we now live and the days soon to come, Jesus said…

Matthew 24:9 “Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

John, writing of Christians living through the Tribulation, penned these words:

Revelation 13:9 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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This demands the perseverance of who???
You!

THE AMERICAN CHURCH HAS LED THE WORLD IN THE GREAT APOSTASY…

To hear the Gospel from the average American preacher is to understand that Jesus died to make you fat, rich and happy in your mansion overlooking downtown Babylon… As long as you attend church, raise your hands, sing loudly, and throw money in the plate, you will be healed of every disease, protected from all harm, and given riches beyond your wildest imagination… If it doesn’t work out that way, it is your fault, not the preacher’s… you either didn’t have enough faith or more likely, didn’t put enough money in the plate…

Get a handle on reality, it isn’t just Stephen, James, Paul and Peter who suffered and died for Jesus, more than seventy million martyrs have followed them and hundreds of Christians are being given the opportunity to suffer and die for Jesus today… Right now!

If you will follow him, God will have you where He wants you, when He wants you to be there. You will suffer what God wills you to suffer and you will die on the day and at the hour He has determined. If you do not follow him, good luck!

There is another verse that heretics love to rip from context and misinterpret… a verse hanging on the wall in many Christian homes… Only again, just the first part of the verse, ending in those famous three dots that represent the part that your preacher likely never read you.

Philippians 3:10 My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection…

Again… Get a handle on reality! Look at the context!

Philippians 3:10 My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.

Context changes everything!!!!!

Is your goal to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, or would you really like to just stop after the first phrase? The truth is that those who do not want to know him in the fellowship of His sufferings or to be conformed to His death, will NEVER know him in the power of his resurrection!

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

David…

666 An Exegetical Approach

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…

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

David…

SHOCK AND AWE

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.

David…

TWO ROADS…

Jesus speaks of a cross, of self-denial, suffering and death…

Trump speaks of Saving America, Peace, Security, and preserving your cushy, comfortable, and easy way of life…

Jesus speaks of a cross, of self-denial, suffering and death…

Trump speaks of Saving America, Peace, Security, and preserving your cushy, comfortable, and easy way of life…

Robert Frost wrote…
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth…

There are two distinctly different paths… Will you deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Jesus, or will you follow Trump and make peace, security, and the salvation of your comfortable lifestyle your passion and your goal?

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.

The truth spoken of here in 2 Thessalonians, is the truth in the Scripture concerning the end times and the great deception…

They reject the words of Jesus and believe Donald Trump…

They remain willfully ignorant of the biblical descriptions of the Man of Sin and the Beast, preferring to believe the Hollywood version…

They prefer Left Behind to Revelation…

They have never accepted Scripture as absolute truth…

When Donald Trump fulfills every single biblical description of the Man of Sin, speaks flatteries and blasphemies, and repeats the same lies over and over, they prefer his message to the Scripture because he is skilled in telling them what they desperately want to hear…

Heaven, to them, is a vague reality spoken of at funerals, but saving America and their cushy lifestyle is their overwhelming passion…

The whole idea of taking up their cross and dying to themselves is unacceptable and the idea that they might be called on to suffer or die for Christ is repulsive…

They always prefer the happy lie over the difficult and uncomfortable truth of Scripture…

Jesus is great for Sunday but Trump will save America and preserve their life of ease…

So, which path will you follow?

One leads to deception, great disappointment and an eternal Hell…
The other to a cross, suffering, death, and eternal life with the One who died on a cross to save your soul…

This is NOT the “Happy Gospel” of “Five Power Verses, Huge Offerings, and Material Wealth…”

This is the Gospel that cost ten Disciples, Paul the Apostle, and seventy million martyrs since their lives, while millions more were beaten, tortured and imprisoned…

This is the Gospel I preach….

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

David…

Why the Pretrib Rapture Fairytale?

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!!!!

BRIDE, MEET THE REFINERS FIRE!

DO NOT BE FOOLED…

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

David…

THE HEGELIAN LEFT

The post suggests that the Left’s purpose is to create fear, pushing people towards Trump and a New World Order. It connects historical figures to a prophetic vision of the United States’ future.

Do you understand that the Left was never meant to win… They were designed so as to appear so frightening and so scary as to absolutely guarantee that you would run into Trump’s arms and joyfully accept the real New World Order; the NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM…

Want a clue? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin all knew about today, planned for today, hoped for today, and dreamed about today… Plato described it, Sir Francis Bacon wrote books about it before there was a United States of America…

The United States was created as a phoenix… It, like the bird of mythology, would live between two and three hundred years… It would crash and burn, but out of the ashes would rise a new, greater, larger phoenix… a United States of the World!!!!!!

“He goes forth conquering and to conquer…”

“Who is like the Beast and who can make war against him?”

“When they cry ‘Peace and Security’, sudden destruction…”

You didn’t know that? Where have you been hiding?

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

David…