Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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When they say peace and security then sudden destruction comes upon them

Think about Haman, he was so happy after the first banquet, thought it was a great honor that he alone was invited with the king. He goes to the King to get permission to impale Mordecai and then sudden destruction came upon him. Mordecai is honored and then he is hustled off to the second banquet where he is exposed as the man of sin. He is then impaled on the post he had set up for Mordecai.

 

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Acts 7:19 He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

I lived in Taiwan from 1987 to 1995. They were far poorer than we were in America at that time. When I first got to Taiwan everyone rode bicycles, there were so many bicycles it was hard to even find a place to park the bicycle. But they didn't have the problems of teenage pregnancy or gang violence like we have in the US. Of course such things existed but no where near the scale of the problem in the US. One reason is that school went until 6pm. They didn't just dump kids onto the street at 3pm like they do in the US.

Since Taiwan could take care of children till 6 (and it wasn't all school, they had supervised study hall where they do homework, they have several hours of physical activity a day and they had nap time as well as serving dinner) why can't the US? The US budget for school children is far greater than the Taiwan budget was. We pay more per child for education in the US than just about any country in the world and we get the absolute worst results on a per dollar basis. If you compare our results with countries that get comparable results you will see their school budget is a tiny fraction of ours. So then, why do we do so poorly, especially since only one generation ago we had the best public schools in the world?

The question I would ask you is "who is watching your children?" The people who are "over all" are the elected officials (mayors of cities and even federal government officials). Let's begin with the president, remember when Bush wanted to be known as the "education president"? It is unconstitutional for the president to be in charge of the public schools, but what he did was create "no child left behind" and then give tax money to the school systems that bowed the knee to him. He would actually take tax money that came from citizens in one state and give it to school systems in another state because they followed his edicts. This was unconstitutional. No child left behind should have been called "No child gets ahead". It is a waste of time to debate about this anymore, his programs were an abject failure and only caused the collapse of the US school system to be worse. He is definitely the "education president", he more than anyone is why our school system is ranked 28th in the world. But, it is worse. What people don't realize because they hide this from you is that the best funded school districts in the US are ranked in the top ten and even among the top six school districts worldwide. When they say we are 28th that is an average. If you look solely at our inner city schools they are significantly worse than 28th. These schools would immediately improve greatly if they didn't let the kids out till 6pm and if they served breakfast, lunch and dinner at the school.

But you may rightfully argue "they don't have the money". This is true and let's explain why that is. First, the mayor's use the school system budget. In NYC Mayor DeBlasio forced these horrible desks and chairs into the schools, it was a huge expense, probably cost over $500k for our school that only had 400 kids, but citywide it had to be tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars. We did not need new desks, and we did not like the desks that were forced on us, but what we did need was 60k for after school tutoring. So the mayor spends ten times as much money on the school than we need for things we don't need. Why? No doubt that furniture company contributed a lot of money to his campaign.

Now if the schools are open till 6 wouldn't you have to pay the teachers more? Not really, I was a teacher and I would easily spend an hour or two a day grading papers, making calls, and preparing lessons. What they do in Taiwan is the principal and all the gym teachers and other assistant principals will supervise some school wide events at the beginning and end of the day. During that time the teachers can be doing their work. Also, you have a supervised study hall where the students are doing their homework and the teachers also can be doing their work. I used to leave the school at 5 every day and I would get to school an hour early in the morning to get set up. Done correctly this would hardly be an inconvenience to the teachers. In the inner city some kids will not bring books home because they will be stolen, others cannot do their homework at home because of the situation at home. This makes it easy for all kids to do their homework.

These two corrections would go a long way to improving our schools. 1. Eliminate financial decisions for each school from any political figures or political appointees. Each principal should make those decisions and they should be held accountable for how their schools perform. 2. School should not let out till 6pm beginning with elementary school all the way to high school.

Neither of these will be done because the school system has intentionally been ruined for the same reason that Pharaoh acting treacherously to the children of Israel. Therefore you need to homeschool. Our schools are now filled with Satanists, groomers, and hypocrites teaching lies, denying the creator and worshipping the creation.

 

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The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night cont.

So the point I'm getting to is that if you are watching you can see "a thief coming in the night". Those code breakers in the US who broke Japan's code saw it. There were things that could have been seen prior to the JFK assassination that any half decent Secret Service agent would have spotted immediately (change in the route, the open windows on the route, the removal of the bubble from the car, etc).

When I read this verse I think about a thief breaking into my house, generally they will case the joint first, you will have a locksmith, or repairman, a cable guy or some other service person who enters your house and is able to see what is there. No one wants to stumble around in the dark trying to find something valuable to steal, and no one in the night wants to turn on all the lights. So even in a very small heist there will be some preplanning that might give the thief away. In this case the "deep state" are the ones casing the joint, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the "all seeing eye".

This heist has been planned for 2,000 years. We look at wars wrong, we see winners and losers wrong. WWII, Nazi Germany is the loser, the allies are the winner. That is the wrong way to look at it. If you sent your son to fight and he died you are a loser. So what if you got a medal and a flag. There were people who loaned the money to Germany for the German miracle, raising a nation destroyed by WWI to world prominence. They funded Hitler's rise to power. They didn't lose money, no, they required the Nazi's to implement "the final solution" to pay back their loans. Not only so but the same people funding Hitler also made money by selling to the Allies. They made money from both the Germans and the Americans. They were the ones who wanted the Holocaust and get this, they also wanted the Nazi's to be destroyed as well. Think how evil these guys are they use you, and in the end they want you snuffed out once you have served your purpose. All of these men, the Rothschilds, Ford, Bush, all of them were FreeMasons. They see both Nazis and Jews as their enemies, so they play one against the other to destroy each other all the while they become wealthier and more powerful. War accomplishes two goals for them, it makes them richer and it kills their enemies.

If you are the wealthiest 1% you have to fear communism, look what they did to the Czar of Russia and his family? You have to fear christians following their conscience, speaking the truth, and condemning sin. However, you pit them against each other in a fight to the death, you make money off of both of them, and you get richer and more powerful as your enemies destroy themselves. Look what they did with US politics, let's put a misogynist up against a feminist. Split the country. Divide and conquer. Whoever wins the other 50% will be pissed.

For the US to be judged is righteous judgement, they have been the Great Babylon, the whore riding the beast. The Lord allows them to bite and devour one another, He allows them to carry out His righteous judgement.

We are blinded by our own prejudices, we think everyone thinks like us, and perhaps most do. But the 1% don't. You may think that it is treasonous to fund the Nazis if you are in America or Britain, but Ford, Bush, and the Rothschilds did just that. They are not concerned with being treasonous. You might think that they have a limit to the amount of evil they would support, yet they were the impetus behind the Final solution, gassing 6 million Jews so you could take their gold fillings, their houses, their bank accounts and use that to pay back their loans. The mortgage meltdown was specifically designed to rob houses from widows and then make long prayers as some kind of excuse. They tell you straight up that they consider people to be no different than animals. They kill cows in slaughter houses to feed themselves, in the same way they will kill you if it serves their purpose. The thief worships mammon, that alone is enough to warn you of the coming of the thief.

 

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You put up with the apostasy easily enough

2Corinthians 11:4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

This is what is happening in the apostasy. They equate being tolerant with love and are willing to tolerate a different spirit and a different gospel. It is like a dead person will not respond, this "church" pretends they are alive but appears to be dead.

What is the different gospel? What is the different spirit?

This is the mindset we are supposed to have:

Phil 2:5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

1. They teach that you can use your relationship with God to your own advantage. The church is a "bless me" club.

2. They are kings, little princes, and they make the word of God nothing. The word of God is out of date, the word of God is not to be taken literally, they have a very high opinion of themselves that they can decide which words to heed and which to ignore.

3. They avoid the cross. They are not obedient to death, especially not the humiliating death of the cross.

Ask yourself how could you "put up with it easy enough" if you knew the things your church and your pastor were doing were contrary to the word of God? The mind of a servant knows they must do what the master says, you act contrary to the master you will be fired.

Being obedient to the cross is Jesus casting out the money changers from the temple. He knows this will cause them to crucify Him. They don't do that, they figure if they can go along with the money changers and the religious leaders they can avoid being crucified.

What do you think the Mark of the Beast is all about? The Lord will not allow this compromise any longer. Make a choice, either you worship the Lord or you worship the beast system.

 

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WHAT WILL THE END OF DAYS LOOK LIKE 25 END OF THE WORLD TRENDS

 

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The Big difference between the church in Laodicea and the church in Philadelphia

Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Laodicea signifies that the laity or common people are making the rules. They have the preeminence, in Philadelphia Jesus is the Head and He has the preeminence. In Laodicea they pick and choose which Bible verses they will obey and which they will ignore. In Philadelphia they keep the word of God.

 

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The law in California threatens all parents and all people who work with children. If you are a teacher, or a church, or any other person who they could target. If you have been outspoken on this issue on social media. I would think this bill will affect close to 50% of the people in California. Now according to the Bible the verses I think apply are 'if they don't welcome you in this city shake off the dust as a testimony against them and leave'. Now I get that some people may have a different anointing by the Lord and if the Lord is speaking to you to stay, be a testimony and once you are imprisoned you can fight the law in the courts, that is fine. However, leaving California is a powerful testimony. They lose tax revenue, it will cause house prices or rental prices to go down (it will be a downward pressure), and if there is a large scale exodus it will become clear to all that this was a failed policy. Think about what happened to Bud Light, the testimony was not people arguing or debating, it was that they just stopped buying the product. As long as you stay in California you are giving them tacit approval and your tax dollars are supporting this regime.

 

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The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night, cont.

In August the city of Kabul fell to the Taliban. People in the country fled to the airport but there was no plane, others tried to pull money from the bank but the banks claim they are out of cash. 9,000 Americans were left behind. How did the country collapse so fast? The president said he fled because "he didn't want to cause further bloodshed". They had the superior military, and they were better equipped. However, the Lord was right when he said that the hired hand will flee when he sees the wolves come and will leave the sheep. The Taliban beat women and tracked down all those who had worked with the US to kill them.

So what happened, the lives and futures of many people hung in the balance with this last US election. The election was stolen by fraud and that in turn impacts Israel, Afghanistan, Taiwan, the Ukraine, and on and on. When you have hired hands running your government you will be stunned at how fast they cut and run. Be warned, the US has hired hands running the government and they will cut and run, there will be no chance to flee and no chance to pull the money out of the bank. This was a preview for the Americans and it happened on the 9th of Av, a special day to curse those who are faithless.

 

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Hebrews 12:1-9 -- Why is the church being shut down?

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,

It is wonderful to see that our country was founded by men of faith. They are a cloud of witnesses, our struggle is the same struggle that the Jews and Christians gassed in the gas chambers had, the same struggle that Israel had when they came out of Egypt. If you look at human history there is a great cloud of witnesses that have come before us, all of whom were looking for a better kingdom.

let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

I was with a small gathering to pray outside of Mike Pence’s house. While there people were driving by and screaming at us, “losers” and other things along those lines that I cannot repeat on this forum. One of the guys there got provoked by this, but it is a glory to experience the same things that these heroes of the faith experienced.

4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

I learned that night about the “Black Robed Regiment” during the revolutionary war. The church and the pastors were called the “Black Robed Regiment” by the British because they saw them as the instigators and provocateurs to those who fought in the Revolutionary war. The shot heard round the world was done on the front lawn of one of these churches. The word of God condemns the corruption, it condemns those that would trample on the children of God, and it is the same word that led the children of Israel out of bondage. This is why they must shut down the church before trying a coup.

5 And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6 because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”

Think about that! How can these evil rulers get away with this? How is Pelosi worth $200 million? This is proof that God is not treating them as His children. They haven’t been chastened, they haven’t been disciplined, they haven’t been accepted as sons of God. They will get judged just like the tares, they will be bundled up and thrown into the fire.

So let’s appreciate the Lord’s discipline. Why are the churches shut down? Why would God do that? If you go back to the start of this country it was completely provoked by the preaching in the pulpit. The “Black robed regiment”. Study Valley Forge and you will know this country was born through faith in God. Any reasonable person would look at the situation at that time and say the continental army was dead. The freedom to worship is in the constitution, it is very clear that government has no authority to tell people of faith how to worship. Yet you let them tell you what you can and cannot speak in the church. We have been told clearly that you cannot speak anything that is “political” otherwise you lose your tax exempt status. Which of course is what really surprises me when I hear Jeremiah Wright preach (the guy who preached at Obama’s church) or this Warnock preach (Senator of Georgia). Their preaching is very political. It is hypocritical that you are not allowed to speak on certain topics decided on by the local government unless you also are espousing the platform of the party in power. If the government has no authority to tell you how to worship, how is it that they are telling you what you can and cannot say in the sanctuary? How can we say we don’t care about politics when politics is deciding what our children are taught, when they are deciding that there are multiple genders (I have lost count at this point but I know they are claiming more than 10). They are saying that elementary school age children have the right to declare they are a different gender and even support medical intervention to assist these elementary kids to make that transition. You don’t care who is elected even though one party is rabidly pro abortion?

From my reading of the Bible it is going to be very difficult for Christians to continue to gather as they used to. The whole idea that the lockdown of churches is temporary is a lie. The goal is to turn God’s people into beasts of burden to support the elite (any form of tyranny does this) where these people cannot think for themselves, cannot know God and cannot challenge the power structure. That was Pharaoh’s goal, Caesar’s goal, the emperor’s goal, and the goal of all empires. To accomplish that you must take charge of the education (which they have done). Require all the common people to be indoctrinated with your program (the elites can still send their kids to private schools). And you have to stamp out the church because the Bible is full of radical ideas like “the truth shall set you free” and “the light shined in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it”. China and Russia realized that they had to have complete control over the church otherwise it would shine in the darkness of their rule and overcome it. Sadly many Christians will not wake up until some saints get raptured.

7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

The Bible says that we should not forsake the gathering together of ourselves and so much the more as you see the day approaching. I see the day approaching and yet the churches are shut down? Well, when the churches were shut down due to the pandemic I gathered together with 20 saints to pray for this country. I gathered with five the night before that and I gathered with two others the next day. When you see the day approaching you need to gather together, it will be more difficult, so you need to figure out how to do it. Use the internet, use Zoom, use whatever means you have.

9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!

There are churches who have not submitted to this. I think everyone needs to be fully persuaded in their own mind as to how the Lord is leading you. This verse does not say you have to submit to the authorities, but rather to the Father of spirits. The Lord is speaking, are you a hireling, or a son. When you appear before the Lord will you have to give account of the saints under your care or give account to your tax exempt status? Is your Christian life going to end with a whimper or a bang?

 

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Rapture at start of Revelation 4 or at the opening of the sixth seal?

One of the debates is over whether or not the church is in the heavens already raptured at the start of Revelation 4.

The evidence supporting this is the verse that John heard "come up here" (ie a rapture) and the fact that the lampstand is up there when John sees no one is worthy to open the scroll.

Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

So the big question is are these seals in chapter 5 opened before or after the rapture.

5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. 4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. 5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. 6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

The lamb is "as it had slain" so this occurs after the crucifixion.

"Having seven seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth". These three references to seven are obviously tied to the lampstand. Chapter 1 we see the Lord in the midst of the lampstand, chapter 2 and 3 we go into the seven lamps which are the seven churches, chapter 4 we see the lampstand is in heaven with the Lord, and now in chapter 5 we here about the lamb having seven horns and seven eyes sent into all the world. The church and the believers were sent into all the world. The church is filled with the spirit of God. So then is the church on the earth at this point or in heaven?

Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

We are sitting together with Christ in the heavenlies. That took place after Jesus ascended and long before the rapture takes place. John seeing the lampstand in heaven at this ceremony opening the title deed to the Earth confirms what Paul shared in Ephesians.

Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

That title deed which Jesus opens is the mystery which has been hid in God. This chapter is confirming what Paul said. This mystery was opened prior to Paul writing the book of Ephesians. What John saw was a confirmation of what Paul wrote.

Ephesians 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

This is what we see in the book of Revelation. The title deed shows us the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. We see the exceeding greatness of His power, we see that Jesus is set at the right hand of the Father in the heavenly places, we see Jesus far above all principality and power, we see Jesus has been given to be head over all and we see the church His body.

Therefore I think the teaching that the rapture takes place prior to the opening of these seven seals is not Biblical. It contradicts the clear word in Ephesians.

Not only so, but according to John's epistles we had already seen many antichrists at the time he wrote his epistles. The first seal being opened surely has to refer at least in part, to the deceit and deception of the counterfeit Christs. Obviously that seal had been opened, at least in part, at the time of John. If the word about the counterfeit Christs were still sealed up then how could we know what to look for? The fact that we do know is proof the seal has been opened. Likewise with the seal about the red horse. Think about WW1 and WW2. We can see fulfillment of prophecies in those two wars leading to Israel returning to the good land, fulfilling another prophecy. Again, that seal must be opened, at least in part, because we can see so many mysteries being made clear. The same is true of the third, fourth and fifth seals. We saw many martyrs at the beginning of this age, but the number of Christians killed for their faith in the last one hundred years is probably greater than all those killed in the previous 1900 years. Surely this seal is also opened, at least in part.

The sixth seal is a great earthquake which no doubt has not been opened. That is a great earthquake. Interestingly, there was a great earthquake associated with the resurrection from the dead. Some believe that this is the rapture.

Revelation 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

How is it that the whole world realizes the great day of the Lord's wrath is come after this seal is opened but not after the other seals are opened?

The sun is covered as with sackcloth. That is what you wear when you are repenting before God. The Sun denotes the church which is the light set on a hill. All the Christians who are left behind are going to be girt about with sackcloth in repentance.

Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.

When the sixth seal is opened this prophecy is fulfilled. What happens before the great and terrible day that signifies the great and terrible day has come? It is the rapture, the "harpazo". Some believers get snatched out of the way of certain destruction.

The stars of heaven falling to earth remind us of the fallen angels being kicked out of heaven when the manchild is caught up to heaven. If you believe that the manchild being caught up to heaven is a picture of the rapture, then surely that event is tied to the sixth seal being opened.

There are also negative events at the rapture, the moon becomes blood -- that is a sign of judgment on the nation of Israel. The sun becomes black, that is judgement on the earth and their natural source of life. The fig trees cast their untimely fruit. This sounds like a big loss to those who were not ready when the Lord returned. It reminds us of the Lord who cursed the fig tree the first time He came because there was no fruit. This time they have fruit, but it isn't ripe.

I would argue that the evidence for the rapture taking place at the opening of the sixth seal is far more persuasive to me than the argument for when John is called up to see the things in heaven.

 

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23 Reasons I'm Keeping My Eyes Peeled for a 2023 Rapture! - Night Watch with Brother Chooch

 

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An Awake Dream of Invasion – Vicki Parnell 06/26/2023

 

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An Awake Dream of Invasion – Vicki Parnell 06/26/2023

1. Grid goes down in the US for 3 days to pave the way for greater sorrows.

2. She sees soldiers invading the US, many of which are Chinese (Asian? N. Korean?)

The invasion takes place after the US is crippled in one hour. The United States is no longer considered the US by God but rather Babylon.

 

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Love is Hard, Peter makes it easier.

There are three things that we should be filled with as believers, faith, love and hope. However, faith is hard, it may not come naturally, so what do we do?

2Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

Peter gives us steps we can easily take that will lead to love. First step is translated here as "virtue". This word is unique to Peter, it refers to a virtuous course, an action, a feeling. For example, serving at a soup kitchen is a virtuous action, helping your neighbors with yard work they can't do is virtuous action. Even if you don't have any love, you can take this first step. When you do that you can then take the next step which is to also add to this knowledge. You go to the homeless shelter and you learn what has happened to the individuals there. You go to a prison ministry and learn about their lives. A brother shared yesterday that he was helping a woman with her yard work, She had just buried her husband the day before.

6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

Learning about their situations will help you to learn about temperance which can also be translated as self control. We had a brother who cut off four fingers using a table saw. A little girl in the church met him and her father wanted her to hear his story as a cautionary tale to his daughter. It is so much more effective seeing the hand with the fingers cut off, or the person who is homeless, or just out of prison, etc. On the other hand it also adds patience or perseverance. When I taught in Brooklyn I would learn of the obstacles and hardships my students had to endure and overcome every day and it motivated me to quit complaining, quit whining, and to persevere as well. But that is not all you will see at the soup kitchen, or prison ministry. You will also see godly brothers and sisters and you can learn from them as well. You can imitate them, be inspired by them, be encouraged by them.

7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

When I first got saved there was a brother who lived nearby and I would frequently go to his house. He lived five minutes away so I would walk over there. They were poor (he was married with two children). The house was spartan. He would be outside working on cars. Widows in the church would bring him their cars to fix in exchange they would bring food to his house. I would sit outside on the driveway with him and hand him tools as he worked. This is how you learn brotherly kindness. And when you look at everything, well you have added love to your faith.

8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If you don't have love no one cares what you have to say. You could be really smart, but without love you will find everyone simply ignores you.

 

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Compare Job with the elites

1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

Job is the richest man in the east. He is someone who is considered today to be "elites". We have this concept that the FreeMasons and the "elites" rule the world in a secret society. But here is a man who was "perfect and upright", he fears God and hates evil. So let's look at his story to fully understand this world of the elites.

4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

With the elites it is "rules for thee but not for me". They may promote a war but that doesn't mean their kids will go fight in the war. But with Job it is not that way, he understands that his children are sinners like all the rest and therefore he is praying and sacrificing for them daily for their salvation.

6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

Doth Job fear God for nothing? That is the big question. You say you love God, what has it cost you? Nothing? Are you living in a bless me club and you worship God because He has blessed you? This is a fair question, if God is going to boast about how much Job loves him and hates evil is it simply because God bought that love by blessing Job? This is the one true thing of all God's people, they have paid a price to follow the Lord. On the other hand this also reveals the heart of those who follow Satan, the Satanists, the FreeMasons, etc. Their "loyalty" and "love" has been bought by Satan.

10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

This is what Satan and the Freemasons do. They build a hedge about their members, they bless the work of their hands, they see that their substance is increased. If your pastor is preaching the "prosperity gospel" to you and your church is a "bless me" club, then know that this sounds much more like Satan and the FreeMasons, than God.

11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. 12 And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

Satan is the one that attacked Job, robbed Job, destroyed Job's wealth and why, so that he would curse God. This is what the FreeMasons and Satanists are all about. It isn't just to make one another rich, it is also to attack those that worship God. Look at Satan's goal in this book, buying the loyalty of his followers is only inferred, attacking those that love God and trying to get them to curse God, that is his stated goal.

What about the elites, why doesn't anyone attack them? Clearly they do not have a testimony of loving God and hating evil, if they did they would also be attacked. Satan has built a hedge about them, aiding the work of their hands and giving them all the substance.

This should be practical to us. I hear people have trouble finding a good church. First of all, you should be able to easily see the biggest and most prosperous churches, the ones with thousands of members and a prevailing online ministry. Perhaps the lead pastor lives in a mansion and has a private jet. This is not evidence that he loves God and hates evil, no, it is evidence that Satan has surrounded him with a hedge, blessed the work and provided all manner of substance. Meanwhile in the same city you will find much smaller ministries that feed the poor or minister to prisoners, or in some way are working with the community. They do not have thousands every week coming to the meetings, they don't have a big cathedral, or a wealthy pastor or any wealth. They may appear to be under the attack and yet they praise and worship the Lord without complaint or cursing. That is where you want to go.

 

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Consider Job and that which he feared

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Hebrews talks about being held in bondage by the fear of death. We cannot be more than conquerors if we do not overcome these fears. In order to become a teacher in NYC you have to have a Master's degree, you must pass a number of exams, you must be fingerprinted, a background check, and even then they check your transcript to make sure you have all the necessary courses. If not you then must take the courses that they require as well. In addition even if you do meet all the requirements you will only be certified to teach the courses that you have the requirements for. I was certified to teach Earth Science, but not Chemistry, or Physics or any other science. When you are getting certified it seems endless, one thing after another, scheduling exams, studying for them, taking them, waiting for the results, etc. But, once you have done all that is required you then realize you are on the other side of the wall. All that stuff you had to jump over, now if someone wants your job they also will have to jump over all that stuff first.

It is the same thing with the cross of Christ. It is a fearful thing, you sweat drops of blood. But once you have gone through it you feel like it is a protection to you. It is one cross to another for your life, but with each one it is as though you are that much more in the heart of Jesus and that much more out of the evil world.

 

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WOW, WHAT DID JESUS SAY THE WORLD LOOKS LIKE--WHEN HE RETURNS? JUST LIKE THE WORLD AROUND US TODAY!