Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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

There is a key principle in the Bible "judgement begins with the house of God". For example, the holocaust during WWII on the Jews, six million gassed to death. That gives us an idea of the judgement that will come on the world, but since the Jews represent 1% of the world's population we can guesstimate that the scale will be 100xs greater.

So then we can look at these events as "warnings to us". One man was talking to a reporter after the Dixie fire burned down his house and he said "all I have is ash and twisted metal". That is precisely what Paul said in Corinthians, that we will be saved but so as through fire. If we build with wood, hay and stubble we will suffer loss, but if we build with gold, silver and precious stones then the fire tests our work and proves that it is of God.

Suppose this same man had spent a lifetime preaching the gospel and thousands had received the word and come to the Lord as a result. He loses his house, and possessions, but think about everything stored in heaven that was not burned.

That fire was like a thief in the night. If you built your house out of stone, and the roof was metal, and you had two hundred feet on every side with nothing but grass and patio. Then the fire would not have destroyed your house and rather would have proved you were being wise. However, why is California experiencing such severe fires? It is because of the extreme drought. Why have they had 20 years of drought? Well that it appears to be man made, 80% of the water in the state goes to agriculture and they grow crops that cannot survive in California without bringing in water. So the cause of the fire was a thief, stealing the water. We can all see the huge flames from the towering inferno, but anyone watching the water being used by agriculture should have known that this was not sustainable. They should have seen the clues that we have a "thief in the night" and therefore if we don't act now we'll wake up one day and everything will be gone.

If you acted like a forensic investigator you would see that they were "stealing the water" year by year, the evidence was there. You would see that the forest you were living in was stressed due to lack of water. You would realize that the forest fires would come. Based on that you could go ahead and take action so that your house would not be destroyed in the fire.
 

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The tribulation in a nutshell

Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

23 “I will heap calamities on them
and spend my arrows against them.
24 I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.
26 I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”

28 They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.
 

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The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night part 4

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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What are the 3 ribs in the bears mouth?
 

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The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night part 5

In August the city of Kabul fell to the Taliban. People in the country are in a panic, ten thousand have fled to the airport but there is no plane, others have 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 has already started beating women.

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.
 

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John 10 The hireling sees the wolves and flees

1 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.


Jesus the Good Shepherd

7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

I was reminded of this passage because Kabul fell to the Taliban. It seems very clear to me that Biden "climbed up some other way" to become president using fraud and a cyber attack through the voting machines from China. The president of Afghanistan was a hireling, a puppet that as soon as he saw the wolves coming he fled. He had a bigger army that was better equipped but he was a coward. I feel like this is very timely. The day of the Lord is when the full revelation of how evil and corrupt human government is will be made known to the whole world. The United Nations composed of globalists is "the beast" that whore of Babylon has been riding. The United States has become the great Babylon and our leaders like Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris represent the "whore of Babylon". The whole world views our politicians as whores who will prostitute themselves. At the end of the age the Beast will hate the whore and she will be "sacrificed", we see her burned with fire and naked. You can be sure there are many countries that hate the US and they see that now is their opportunity to act, strike while the skillet is hot. These audits could flip the situation any minute and Trump could be reinstated. Act while a feeble president is still officially "in charge".

17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.” 19 Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings. 20 And many of them said, “He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?”
21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

At this point Biden's popularity is down around 30%. That is astoundingly bad and even the most favorable news media is horrified by what they saw in Kabul. The events of the last year have opened the eyes of the blind, they were rabidly anti Trump or "never Trump" and now they can see there is something worse than a guy who has mean tweets.

The Shepherd Knows His Sheep

22 Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. 23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 24 Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

Wow, we just jumped to Hanukah. This is a key point to the tribulation, it will convince many people to repent. Before they believed in Jesus but thought Jesus freaks were too extreme or embarrassed them, or should not make waves or should not get involved in political issues. However, after the first rapture He who restrains will step aside and then they will see what the world is like with Antichrist and demons running wild. What we are seeing in Kabul is simply a foretaste of what we are about to see in the US. Once you realize the US is the Great Babylon the prophecies are very clear. In an hour she will fall, she will be destroyed, religiously, economically, politically. We will be burned with fire and stripped naked.

25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and My Father are one.”

There is only one good shepherd. Follow him. Do not follow the phonies. They may sparkle like lightening, they may be a pretty boy with a golden tongue. Just remember, Jesus laid down His life for you.

Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus

31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” 33 The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’? 35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” 39 Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

Wow, they are threatening to fire people if they don't get the vaccine, and look how quickly people tremble over losing their job. There are 10 million job openings, you can get another job. Here they are threatening to stone Jesus and He doesn't blink.

The Believers Beyond Jordan

40 And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed. 41 Then many came to Him and said, “John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.” 42 And many believed in Him there.

This is the other thing, the more the tribulation heats up the more people will believe in Jesus. This is the revival you have been praying for.
 

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Isaiah 9:18-21 Wickedness burns like a fire

18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

Is he talking about the protests, riots and looting? Is he talking about the record setting fires in the West? Is he talking about climate change? People got tired of using the term “apocalyptic” and “end of the world” to describe what they were seeing, now the phrase is “a year like no other”.

19 By the wrath of the Lord Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for the fire; they will not spare one another. 20 On the right they will devour, but still be hungry; on the left they will eat, but not be satisfied. Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring: 21 Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh; together they will turn against Judah.

This is what the riots and looting do. They destroy businesses. They refuse to spare one another, even their neighbors, friends and family are collateral damage. They lose their jobs, they lose their business. The police do not know what to do, they can’t calm the situation. If they let them protest the businesses are outraged and hire militia. If they arrest them then the protestors are outraged, videotape it, upload to Youtube and it provokes more protests and more riots.

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.


It is definitely going to get worse. Unemployment will be through the roof and if they don’t continue to fund unemployment checks these people will starve and be on the street protesting and looting. The pandemic is not going away so businesses will need to continue to be in lockdown. As a result foreign trade and travel is down 30% causing catastrophic losses to many of our trading partners and countries that depend on travel. China is experiencing an unprecedented year in floods and infestations. This will push them to famine. If they buy up the world’s reserves of food it will push 3rd world countries like Yemen into horrific famine. The fires in the west are not done, October and November are usually the worst months. It is the first time in US history that ten named storms have hit the mainland. It is only the second time in history we have had to go to the Greek alphabet for named storms and Delta formed about six weeks earlier than Delta formed the last time this happened. These truck protests are shutting down the entire distribution network. World trade is like a river, if you cut it off in one place everything downstream gets cut off. So if no trucks are delivering goods then the shipping containers sit on the dock and no ships can unload, that in turn means there are no shipping containers going back to places like China, etc. Factories are being shut down because they are missing the parts to work with, which in turn will mean the factories that make those parts will also have to shut down because the parts they have already made are piling up, which in turn means they will stop receiving shipments of raw materials, which in turn means the mines that produce the raw materials will also need to shut down, etc. Already we are seeing 7.5% inflation but with this trucker protest it will only accelerate the inflation as well as the recession, this is known as "stagflation".
 

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The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night part 6


There is another aspect to this verse that is just now sinking in to some, it is what the Lord said about "if you knew when the thief was coming you would have prevented him". The easiest time to deal with a thief that comes in the night is beforehand, to keep him from breaking in.

Right now there are those looking at this catastrophe in Kabul and the damage done to the US prestige and credibility and they realize the easiest way to have dealt with this would have been to prevent the 2020 election from being stolen.
 

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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, 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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Two will chase a thousand

We are watching a trucker protest shut down Canada and cause the Biden administration to melt down. Trudeau has threatened to fine the truckers $100,000. So just to review, he refused to meet with them, ran and hid when they came to the capital to present their complaint. Told them to leave which they ignored. Told them it was illegal to honk their horns which they ignored. Called them terrorists, racists, and nazis which they ignored. Now he is threatening them with the $100,000 fine which they have ignored. The $100,000 is so that they can take their Trucks because with this supply chain issues they can't replace those trucks. It is a joke. Call their bluff and let all the truckers line up for trial with a million dollars for their legal defense.

Already the supply chain issue is becoming crippling for getting a new tire. These can take six months to arrive. Shut down the supply chain and they might take a year or two to get new tires. Any trucks they seize they will have to cannibalize for parts so seizing trucks won't add trucks to the supply chain, rather they will only be used to keep the existing trucks to keep running. Everyone will see how idiotic the whole thing is.

Also consider how the rest of the world will respond to Trudeau abusing the Truckers?

The only possible chance that Canada has if they follow through on this is that there is no reaction worldwide. If truckers around the world protest in unison they will be completely powerless.

Also consider this, the solution they have floated in the US is to get 18 year olds driving 18 wheelers. I would prefer someone who is well trained, not some kid who was given a one month training and put behind the wheel of a truck being held together with duck tape. Will they vet the kids for drugs and alcohol abuse? I suspect the result of any policy like this would be a sharp increase in accidents involving 18 wheelers.

Consider something else, when the US puts sanctions on a country like Iran it doesn't stop Iran from getting anything, it simply means some country like Syria, Jordan or Turkey can make money by acting as a middle man. But when the truckers shut down the highway it stops things getting through instantly. You see the results in a week. A month later you are in desperate situations. You can't solve a problem like that by using the court system which takes months or even years.

Also consider that when you cut the supply chain like this it doesn't just mean the shelves are empty, it means the factories have to shut down. These trucks almost always will take a load into Canada and then bring a load out of Canada. If you don't pick up perishable items from farms then they perish. Cows still have to be milked but the milk goes down the drain. If the farmers, factories and retail services all lose money then they don't pay taxes and the government will be crushed. Businesses are taxed on their profits. No profit no tax. you don't have to shut them down 100%, a loss of 10-20% could mean 100% loss for the government tax revenue. And it is worse than that because they have social programs for those who lose jobs, etc. Government's expenses go up just as their revenues crater.

In other words the deplorable truck drivers have the arrogant elites by the short and curlies.
 

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1948 & 1967 prophesied in Ezekiel and Jeremiah

 

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There is nothing going on outside


"Ignore what is happening outside because nothing is happening outside"
 

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There is nothing going on outside


"Ignore what is happening outside because nothing is happening outside"
Warn those in the Pulpit to stop feeding their people a lie.
 

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Hebrews 12:10-29 A Harvest of righteousness and peace

10 They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.

Whatever path you take make sure it is leading you to share in His holiness.

11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

The issue is not which is the easier path to take, the issue is which path produces a harvest of righteousness and peace. Which path will lead to you becoming a trained disciple of the Lord.

12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13 “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

How weak and feeble some Churches appear. Are they really in the image and likeness of the Lord of all?

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.


We are not trying to be disruptive. Since when is prayer and worship disruptive. We do everything we can to live in peace with others. But I have been commanded to not forsake the assembling of myself together with the saints. I want to live in peace but I must be faithful to the Lord and His word.

15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. 16 See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. 17 Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had done.

I believe that many believers like this Warnock have sold their birthright for a single meal. Claiming to be a “pro abortion” pastor is godless. I perceive that Reverend Jeremiah Wright has allowed a root of bitterness to grow up and has become defiled by it.

18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; 19 to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.” 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.” 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

The tyrants are the ones who are threatening people. There are two systems here, one keeps everyone in line with fear, the other is joyful, full of the righteous who were made perfect. There are two covenants, the better one is mediated by Jesus. Abel's blood condemns this evil satanic system, Jesus’ blood is the way out of this system.

25 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?

This is a word of warning. We are being disciplined because we did not stand strong by faith to worship God according to our conscience but rather allowed evil men to infiltrate the church and tell us what we can and cannot say. Their plan is to utterly destroy God’s people just as Haman tried to.

26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

If you still think the US government is unshakeable you need to pray about it. When God shakes the US government and removes those that cause offense the entire world will be shaken.

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”

Our God is a consuming fire. At the end of the age God sends forth the angels to bundle up the weeds and cast them into the fire first. This is before He raptures the wheat to the heavenly barn. On January 6 the representatives must make a stand and choose a side. Wheat on one side, tares on the other. Embrace the truth on one side, hold down the truth in unrighteousness on the other. Holding down the truth is like holding down styrofoam in a pool, you can do it, but it is hard, and it keeps popping up and shooting out of the water.

22 million acres have burned in Siberia so far this year. This is a new phenomenon, fires in Siberia. To put this into perspective a really bad fire season for the US is 10 million acres burned. This is now turning into the worst year on record for fires with catastrophic fires in Russia, Turkey, Greece, and Italy as well as really bad fires in the US and Canada.