John 16:1-22 -- Take heart, I have overcome the world
1 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.
We are seeing this now. The censorship on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. For example, someone posted a notice about setting up peaceful protests concerning the election called “stop the steal” and Facebook took it down claiming it would incite violence. The mainstream media is portraying the concerns of election fraud as the ravings of unstable people, or baseless claims, or paranoid poor losers. They are abusing the political prisoners arrested for trespassing on January 6th, they have been held for 10 months, often in solitary confinement. They were foolish to fall into that trap, snared like birds, but this is simply a foretaste of the abuse we are about to see.
3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them.
We were warned. Their claims of “diversity training” and “inclusion” does not include Christians, it does not include people who believe the Bible is the word of God and that Jesus is Lord. Satanists will soon be released, we can already see the lawless ones chomping at the bit to be set loose.
I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 5 but now I am going to him who sent me.
When the Lord was here on the Earth He was a bubble. We could be covered and protected by Him. But now that He is going to the Father in Heaven He is now Lord of all with all authority and all power given to Him for the church.
None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
This is how you grow, how you mature. We were like little children watching Jesus and learning from Jesus. But now, we learn by doing. The Spirit will be inside of us, guiding us, and He refers to this Spirit as “the advocate”. The Spiritual battle is a legal battle. We will be accused and tried by Satan with the Spirit as our advocate, this is the very best way to be led in the truth. I believe the same thing happens during the tribulation, it is good for those who are left behind that some are raptured. This is a spiritual warfare in the air and once the rapture takes place it will be Jesus who controls the air while Satan will be cast to the ground.
8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
The Spirit is “the Advocate”. He is our defense lawyer. Satan will attack us, accuse us, and He will defend us. They will accuse us of sin, but that is because they don’t believe in the Lord. It is not sinful to refuse the vaccine. This is what they did concerning Saint Stephen, they accused him of teaching contrary to their religion because they didn’t believe that Jesus was the Messiah. The resurrection and ascension of Jesus convicted them of unrighteousness. All those who had sentenced Jesus to death stood condemned. We are seeing this play out again. All of these phony reasons for censoring Christians, these are false accusations because they don’t believe that Jesus is Lord. When the rapture takes place and we go to the Father they will be condemned concerning righteousness. They want to give $450,000 to each person who was separated from their kids when they came into our country illegally. How about the people being held for trespassing on January 6th, they are separated from their kids, are they going to pay them? Hunter Biden is getting $450,000 per painting, why not just give each of them a painting from Hunter Biden? At that time the “prince of this world” will stand condemned. All those involved in election fraud, all those involved in the corruption that Hunter Biden’s laptop reveals, or that the money laundering with Swiss banks reveals, or that the investigations into the CCP’s business dealings with US government contacts reveals, or even those involved in the Epstein crimes reveals. They will all stand condemned.
12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
There is so much to this we need to be guided little by little and step by step. Just with election fraud alone the size and scope is massive. People who did a canvass over 4 precincts in Arizona found 1 in 5 registered voters in Arizona were potentially bogus. There is evidence that the computer program designed to count the votes was written so that a certain portion of the votes for Trump would be assigned to Biden. We have seen throughout the age of grace that we have been led into all the truth, day by day. It should not be a great surprise to Christians that the Lord is now leading us into this revelation concerning the rapture.
14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
Jesus is Lord, the gospel has gone out throughout the entire world. As a result we have born again believers who are everywhere in this evil age. They work for the post office, they work in polling stations, they work counting votes, they work writing software. The problem with a massive fraud like this is that you cannot keep it secret. Thousands of people came forward with affidavits of fraud, or by volunteering to help with the audit or the canvass, others have worked with the lawyers on lawsuits, and still others work publishing the news.
16 Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.” 17 At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” 18 They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”
He meant that He was going to be crucified dead and buried. Then after 3 days He would rise from the dead victorious and that Satan would be put to an open shame.
19 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’? 20 Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
This is what we are seeing today. People all over the world are taking a stand. They are taking a stand against some of these transgender laws, taking a stand against CRT being taught in schools, taking a stand against election fraud, etc, etc. We have stopped wallowing in the mud and instead stood up for the Lord.
21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.
The rapture is likened to a woman giving birth to the man child who is then caught up to God. This last year has been painful, we have had anguish, but now we can see joy to see the believers taking a stand.
22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
The age began with Jesus being the firstfruit, the firstborn, and it ends with the harvest, with us following Him.
