Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, part 2

Zechariah 5:1 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

These dimensions refer to the door to the Holy of Holies in the Temple. When the Lord comes He says He is at the door. When this door opens the first thing that happens is He sends out his angels to bundle up the Tares to be burned. This doesn't mean they are burned yet, only that they are bound. Then He gathers the wheat into His barn. That is the rapture. So then just like Paul told us we don't need to know dates and times, what we need to be aware of is when the angels are gathering up the tares to be bound. The forensic audit of the election is doing that. Durhams investigation into the FISA warrant scandal and the Russia hoax is doing that. The Ghislaine Maxwell trial into pedophile island and all the elites is doing that. There are rumors of a war going on between the US military ("white hats") and a network of underground bunkers and facilities all connected by maglev trains.

3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.

This word "curse" in Hebrew is a very serious word for an eternal judgement or curse like that of the tares to be burned. There are two categories of crimes, those that are the thief doing the stealing and those who are doing the lying to hide what is taking place. We have two kinds of criminals being rounded up right now, those involved in the theft including human trafficking and those who are involved in the lying about it. The mainstream media, people like Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon are being implicated in this crime. We are seeing the "angels" go gather them up. Some are claiming "we have all the evidence of the election fraud", others are saying that Durham had all the evidence of the FISA scandal for the last two years and was simply waiting for the opportune time. The Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell is now a runaway best seller book and so we have the evidence we need to convict and prosecute all of those thefts. There is another book on Fauci and his involvement in the Pandemic. Already we are seeing the pieces getting put together on that theft. Paul told us these were the big signs, the things we would see and the Lord told us the same thing that first we would see the tares being gathered up, bound, and then later tossed into the fire. One aspect of the gospel is that we would have nothing to do with the unfruitful works of darkness. If you heeded that then this current rounding up might be nothing more than "rumors of war" to you, but that is a good thing. I have heard of people saying they hear explosions taking place underground. According to some accounts there is a full fledged war going on beneath the surface where we can't see.

4 The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’”

Again, this is what we are seeing. This did not take place in a single day. Durham has been involved in his investigation for about two years, the election fraud investigations about one year, the Hunter Biden laptop from hell about one year, and the Pandemic is now about 18 months to two years for that investigation. What the Lord says here about destroying it completely is very similar to Trump's "drain the swamp" slogan. This is a great promise, it will be destroyed completely. He isn't going to simply break a few windows, he will be rooting up the tares from the roots so they are completely removed.

The tribulation has been misrepresented by many believers and especially by Hollywood. The appearance of the AntiChrist is part of an organized retreat. To my understanding the war takes place in three stages. Right now we are in the first stage of rounding up the tares and binding them for the fire. I believe this stage began in 2018. This will culminate in the rapture of the first fruits. That will be when all the sleeping Christians will be rebuked and ashamed. It will also be when Satan is cast out of heaven to the Earth. It is like the battle of Britain where Germany lost control of the air as the US air force wore them down. Then D day would be like the situation for the believers left on the Earth, they are now waking up to a ground campaign.

Meanwhile there will be a holocaust where a third of the people on the Earth die. This is retribution for them killing a third of all Jews during the holocaust. Think of the AntiChrist as being similar to Hitler after D day, he is surrounded, all he gets is bad news and the day of judgement is closing in on him. Meanwhile he is viciously killing about 2 billion people. Yes, there will be Christian martyrs at this time but that will be considered a major victory. Not only so but during this time you will have a massive revival on earth greater than anything we have ever seen prior. Then of course there will also be Armageddon, but that will be the last gasp desperate attempt just like the Battle of the Bulge and that will be a massive concluding defeat to AntiChrist and His armies.

Where are we right now? We have fought and defeated Rommel, we also fought in Italy. Britain was able to withstand a despicable bombing. The air war is turning the tide. Initially we didn't have the news outlets and tech platforms, but now we have them and the polls have flipped and we are now winning in the air. We are preparing for the D day invasion.
 

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Russia preparing to attack America.


Some have said that the book of Revelation saying one third of all people on earth would die during the tribulation is payback for one third of all Jews being killed during the holocaust.

In the same way it is very logical to think that Russia has not forgotten what Germany did to them during WWII and that reading that Germany was financed by the elite in Europe and the US would lead to them trying to get payback.

I would also remind people that it was 30 years ago this Christmas when the USSR collapsed and everyone cheered saying "peace and security". It is hard to imagine that for a proud people like Russia they have forgotten that.

Now if you were going to attack the US would you want to attack when there is a strong leader or would you prefer the dumpster fire that is the US leadership at this moment in time?

Would anyone blame Russia for responding to the open threat of a first strike nuclear attack on Russia by the US? This threat is backed up with troop movements and putting missiles near to Moscow, every bit as threatening as the Cuba missile crisis.

This is how a world war starts.
 

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The Day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night, part 3

To me the conclusion is that the door for the end of the age opened in 2018. The angels came forth and began gathering up the tares to be bound into bundles to be burned. If you are asleep you can miss it. Or it can appear to be nothing but "rumors of war" from all sorts of people. If you have been taken in by the apostasy you could miss this and sleep right through, but it is quite clear that many, many Christians have already woken up in the US and around the world and it is also clear that many, many Christians are blowing the trumpet trying to wake everyone up.
 

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"I was beyond furious"


 

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I was led by the Spirit to Melissa a few years ago and enjoy her ministry a great deal.
 

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Isaiah 24:1-13 Escape from what?

1 Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.


As a rule Isaiah appears to be prophetic for the time prior to the tribulation (for the pre trib rapture) and Jeremiah is prophetic for those who are left behind. This is present tense, it appears that at the same time that the rapture takes place this happens. It is as though the floor gives way and the entire worldly system collapses at the same time that the Lord snatches up the saints in the rapture and they “escape”.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. 3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.


Many people have been talking about “the great reset”. The great reset indicates that the world leaders see an impending collapse with a great depression and a collapse of the world’s fiat currency. They are working to make sure this reset doesn’t hurt the 1%, only the 99%. However, the Lord has spoken this word, it will hit all alike. God is going to shake everything that can be shaken and it will all collapse at the same time as those who have received an unshakeable kingdom are raptured.

4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.


Think of the “lofty people of the earth”, the ones who have been privileged their whole lives and they are now digging around in dumpsters to get something to eat. At first they will mourn for everything that has been lost, but very quickly that will fade away as they are languishing, just trying to survive. But even that will fade away as the “lofty people” will also be languishing. The lofty people are those on TV, in the Movies, the Oligarchs, etc. But what happens when no one can afford to watch TV, or when there is no electricity to power the TV or the computer? The world will fade away and then the lofty people will languish.

5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

There is a lot here, suffice it to say they have rejected the word of God, they have refused to allow God to rule over them, they reject the laws, the statutes and the covenant of God. Because of their sins everyone gets burned, not simply the individual sinner. The earth is polluted because of these sins and “few men are left”. What happened? Where did they go? War, famine, plague, rapture? Or does it mean that no one is a “man”? The rapture will take away the “men”, those who are filled with the Man, Jesus Christ. Without those people as an example there will be few men left.

7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.


It sounds like this will be the case at the feast of new wine, which is Pentecost. The church age began with this feast, it is fitting that when the church age ends there would be no more “new wine”.

8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.


Can you imagine, after the rapture to hear a strong message, perhaps one that was taped, one that you rejected because you rejected the laws, statutes and covenant of God, that message would be very bitter then.

10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.


This is a picture of a total lack of law and order. Every house is shut up so no one can come in, it is like the old Western movies where they barred the doors and everyone inside had a gun to fend off the indians.

11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.


They still have those messages of the gospel, but instead of bringing rejoicing it brings sorrow and regret.

12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.


What a picture! The rapture is a reaping. After the reaping what will it be like, it will be like an olive tree after the reaping. Just bare bones, the way trees look after the leaves have fallen off.
 

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Luke 22:13-38 Training is over, this is no longer a drill

13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. 14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. 15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: 16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: 18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. 19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

This is so powerful. The Lord is coming, we need to get ready, what is the most important thing for us to do? Sit at the Lord’s table and eat with Him, eat His body and blood that was shed for us. Realize that every word from this Bible was given to us through the blood of the Lord and the apostles. Realize that this was given for us. Do it in remembrance of Him, if you are scared, if you are looking at the horror sweating drops of blood, do that in remembrance of Him. This is a new testament, we have a covenant, we have promises, it was enacted with the blood of Jesus. Think of the joy of His return when we once again can feast with him, this time in victory. There is also a prophecy here that the Lord will not eat this anymore with us until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God. Could be a prophecy concerning the rapture.

21 But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.

At the end of the age the false prophets will be revealed and they are going to be those who were at the Lord’s table, they were in the church, just like Judas. There is a "but" here. At the end of the age the Lord will eat this with us again at the fulfillment, "but" behold, right now we have a traitor, a false prophet in our midst.

22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed! 23 And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.

Judas, like Balaam was simply a fleshly man who saw an opportunity to make merchandise of the saints. If you are not out hawking the word of God this is not referring to you.

24 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. 25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. 26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. 27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.

We need to see this. Our worth is not based on how the world measures our worth, it is based on the Lord Jesus. If He says “well done, faithful servant” then that is high praise. Let's be at the table as one serving when He returns.

28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.

If we have this vision our entire outlook changes. Right now people are protesting because they are being treated unfairly. But see this and all of a sudden you are worried, “I hope I have endured enough temptations, please Lord, make sure I have been with you through all the temptations”.

29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; 30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


We have a wonderful future of fellowship and joy in the presence of the Lord as well as ruling and reigning with Him. You may think, I can’t be the head, all I have ever known is being the tail. That is why some have referred to this as the “upside down” kingdom. The servants rule.

31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. 33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. 34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.


This is true of all the apostles. Paul was “less than the least” having consented to the stoning of Stephen and having persecuted the church. James was essentially a cult leader during the early days of the church before he repented. The unofficial leader of the “concision” that Paul talked about in Galatians. Your ministry comes from your faith failing not when Satan tries to sift you. Peter denied the Lord here, but later when told to go to Cornelius house He didn’t deny the Lord. He had the keys and opened the kingdom to both Jews and Gentiles. Paul saw the Body of Christ and brought that vision to the church. James saw how to stand up to and respond to cult leaders.

35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. 36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. 37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.


In this age there is the kingdom of the heavens and there is the Satanic worldly system. These two cannot coexist. If you are truly of the kingdom of the heavens you must be reckoned as a transgressor with those in the Satanic worldly system. During the Lord's ministry we were trained, but from the time of His crucifixion the training was over and it was no longer a drill.

38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.

I love this word. Recently I watched this documentary on the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan. At the last play of their fifth championship they are sitting on the bench. Jordan knows he will be double teamed and he puts a cup of gatorade in front of his mouth so you can’t read his lips while he tells Steve Kerr to be ready for a pass. He knows that if they double him Steve will be open. So Steve is screaming back “OK, I’ll be ready!” It reminds me of this verse. You have the Lord who is completely aware of the devices of the evil one and you have the disciples who are completely naive.
 

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An interesting angle

He makes an interesting point, you can't have a skyscraper until they first lay the foundation, they aren't going to lay the foundation until they first buy the land. The point he makes is they can't have the beast system until they have a few things first. The mark of the beast connects every person to the beast. The beast refers to the economy, the ability to buy and sell.

So then your banking system/credit card will be tied to this mark, your resume and ability to get a job will be tied to this mark, and just like a brand on a cow this mark will allow them to keep track of you and it will say you belong to this system.

So then prior to them instituting this they will have to have a digital currency, a computer system able to track 7 billion people, a social score that can be included and the ability to track 7 billion people. This involves big data, satellites, and probably quantum computing as well as a robust internet infrastructure. I find it interesting that all of these things came into being after the birth of Israel. All of these technologies belong to this last generation.

I also find it interesting that the vaccine passport would be the precursor to a social score and entrance into this system. It is almost as though what companies want to know is your health information so that they don't hire anyone with chronic illnesses that are expensive. Heart disease, diabetes, dementia and Cancer are the most expensive diseases to treat. If you did not hire anyone with these your health care costs would be significantly less. Imagine if they could do a "cost/benefit analysis" when you were diagnosed with a disease and if it turned out that they felt it was not worth it to them to treat you just terminate your life. We make these calculations all the time with cattle. You calculate how much it costs to feed and care for the cow and how much you can get for the meat per pound and based on that when is the optimal time to butcher the cow.

 

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More on the image of the Beast

The image of the beast will amaze the whole world when it speaks. It will be like AlphaGo when it showed that artificial intelligence could train itself to play go and guess what people said "who can compete with this?" The same was true of Deep Blue and the same was true of IBM Watson. In 2013 we had a computer system that could listen to a question and then search its entire databases of the world and answer it. The questions were not simple factual questions but involved various figures of speech and play on words. Meanwhile Alexa and other similar systems are getting the "big data" that these AI systems need to learn and train their understanding. On the one hand we don't have this image of the beast yet, on the other hand they are very clearly working on it.

When IBM Watson first came out you could see how valuable it would be for doctors being able to diagnose and prescribe cures for various conditions. You could see how valuable it would be for a CPA or a lawyer. You know that the Pentagon already has computers simulating war games and having AI and big data would just make those simulations that much better and more accurate.

So then on the one hand it is very clear that this "image" is not here yet. On the other hand it is also very clear that it is being developed as we speak and over the last 8 years has probably made tremendous strides that we do not even know about. They are using AI to design new proteins, one of the most complicated processes we know of. Therefore we may also be using AI to design quantum computers to work and to design nuclear fusion reactors to work.

In other words all of the components necessary for the Beast system could be designed with the help of the Beast or even by the Beast itself. That is weird since it seems it is the image of the beast that tells the world to get the mark of the beast.

It will be very easy to sell the beast system. First, if they can track every single person on the planet, where you are, what you buy, what you sell, it will eliminate crime. Also, having a social score on every person would be a "game changer" for the justice system. Imagine being on trial for a crime and they pull out your social score and based on that determine you are not a valuable member of society and for the good of the many you should be terminated. Imagine gated communities saying you can't move here unless you have a social score over a certain number. Imagine ghettos where all the people in those communities have very low social scores, or imagine a questionable shooting by the police being brushed off because the person shot had a very low social score. Imagine being able to pay money to improve your social score like the SAT scandal. Imagine not being able to ask questions about the social score and doing so would cause your social score to collapse. Imagine the stress in a family where they get kicked out of the community because their son or their father asked these questions. You could see how your enemies would be those of your own family. If you ask questions I will get excommunicated.

One of the systems they have to test is whether or not they can turn people into antennas. They need the 5G system and it appears that this vaccine is a test for this function. So although we do not yet have the beast system the system is being tested. Not only so but they are testing how to best roll it out. How will people respond. Notice how they are running various tests all over the world -- two week quarantine, or a fine if you don't comply, or forced vaccinations, or no jab no job, no travel without vaccine passport, etc. This is how AI operates. It needs the data to analyze in order to come up with the most effective strategy.
 

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We are the Lord's witnesses, we need to speak that word the Lord has given us, and the only thing that matters is not how many oppose us but whether or not God is with us.

 

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More on Christmas -- A work of delusion

Jeremiah 10:1 Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

This chapter concludes with they have devoured him, consumed him and laid waste to his habitation. Who? The nations that have not known God. But it starts with the house of Israel bringing the idol of these pagan worshippers into the house. Think of the Christmas tree as a trojan horse. It looks like they are celebrating the Lord's birth with you and yet they are deceiving you into bringing this idol into your house that will consume it, devour it, and lay it waste.

6 There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. 7 Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee. 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. 9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men. 10 But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

Now it gets worse, they let this idol instruct them. Here is how you decorate it. Then you need to go to our malls and buy a bunch of junk to put under it. You need to put the star of our God Moloch on top of it. You need to put "special" ornaments that people describe as though they were idols that they worship on it. You sing songs to it "O Christmas tree". Yet there is nothing true about it. It is green but it is not living. And, it will not abide God's indignation, what happens after Christmas, they throw the tree in the fire.

11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

Whoa! Many people think this tree is insignificant, why talk about it. Because right here this idol is a symbol reminding us of the coming judgement on the earth by fire.

12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens. 13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries. 14 Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

Whoa, it is a work of delusion, it is part of the great delusion that God sends to those who did not love the truth. Not only so but "in the time of their visitation they shall perish". What do Christmas trees have to do with the time of their visitation? Not only so but there is a direct comparison between this idolatrous Christmas tree and everything that it entails and our portion, the babe of Bethlehem. Also, even though it is pagan worship and even though it has nothing to do with Jesus' birth the fact that these two are put together into a juxtaposition like they are during Christmas is because of the God of heaven, by His wisdom and by His understanding. Now what does all this have to do with God uttering his voice? Are we talking about the trumpet blast when God causes the saints to ascend from the ends of the earth? Is this Trumpet blast like the scene the shepherds in the field saw? The incarnation is when God came down to man and the rapture is when men ascend to God?

17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege. 18 For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.


Whoa! This sounds like the start of the tribulation with the judgement on the apostasy and organized Christianity. This verse reminds me of the violation of the sabbath day in the Old Testament or even more of Jesus casting the money changers out of the temple. They turn the worship of Jesus birth into a great big bazaar of buying all the wares of these pagan idolaters.

19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it. 20 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. 22 The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

We begin this chapter with them cutting down a Christmas tree, bringing it into the house of Israel and decorating it because the shepherds have become brutish and have not inquired of the Lord. At the end we see an attack from the North to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals (gangs of thugs). This sounds like the start of the tribulation when Russia attacks the US.

23 O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 24 O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. 25 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
 

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Either you believe God is sovereign or you believe in Coincidences.

The winter solstice is December 22nd and they would bring the Christmas tree in and decorate it in order to celebrate the birthday of a Babylonian deity that signifies the AntiChrist.

So Christmas Eve we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the next day they celebrate the birth of the Antichrist and the Christmas tree is a symbol of that birth because where this deity was killed by a boar and bled out an evergreen tree grew up which is why they use this tree.

What are we rehearsing? The birth of the man child who is caught up to heaven followed by the birth of the Antichrist.
 

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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely

 

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1903 — Wright brothers flight

1914 — first commercial flight

Economic output doubles every 15 years. So then beginning with the end of WWII and the invention of the computer we could guesstimate that the time required to develop new technology is between 1/16th and 1/32nd what it was at the time of the wright brothers.

Now we have had 3 big developments with Quantum computers in the last month. Over the next nine months we may see this have broad applications.

Generally what is revealed to the public about issues involving the most advanced technology is behind what is happening with the military and their top secret projects. Since this is related to cryptography you can be sure that the military is very concerned about this research.

Therefore my point is that we are months away from all of this becoming reality. Couple this computing power with AI and the world will change dramatically over the next nine months. I would say it is unrealistic to think this will take more than a year and quite plausible to think it will take less than six months. I would think the over/under would be five months from now -- May 11th.

I am going to give even odds that by May 11th, 2022 we have commercial applications of quantum computers. For example we may find that the weather is now being forecasted by them and they are designing new and effective drugs for treating disease.