Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

be divided = merizo Strong’s G3307

To separate into parts, be split into factions, to distribute a thing among people.

Matthew 12:25-26 25 And knowing their thoughts he said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: 26 and if Satan casteth out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand?

This is interesting what Jesus says here and what the Pharisees say. They see what is happening and say that Satan's kingdom is divided against itself, it is experiencing a "civil war", kind of like two cartels killing each other or even what is happening in the Ukraine. Many see Putin and Zelensky as being similar to two cartel members going against each other and destroying each other.

Romans 12:3 3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

This word translated as "dealt" is the same word used in the previous verse we translate as "divided". The Lord has dealt out or distributed to each believer a measure of faith. Now when you were saved you were saved out of darkness, out of Satan's kingdom, and into the kingdom of light. So with each person being saved it can look like a "civil war" in Satan's kingdom. Even today we see this accusation being bandied about, that those who are standing for the Truth are accused of insurrection. They are called traitors who are destroying the "union". Obama is even urging that more stringent actions than simply censoring them take place. Joy Reid is also saying the same as are other Main Stream Media personalities.

1Corinthians 7:17 17 Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.

But remember, when we stand for the truth, when we shine the light, it is bringing cracks to Satan's kingdom and it is evidence that Satan's kingdom can't stand. He cannot tolerate the saved speaking, preaching, shining a light, being salt, and so he must "cast them out" of his kingdom. But in so doing it is evidence that his kingdom cannot stand.

1Corinthians 7:34 34 and is divided. So also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

This is the first step in the apostasy, getting married to the world, becoming divided in your concerns between the Lord and the world. The church is supposed to be a faithful virgin for the Lord. Satan's attack is to divide and conquer, cause the church to become married to the world like Pergamos and then to divide the concerns of the believers so they care for the world.

So with that as a background let's return to the verses in Matthew about a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand and see the context of this word about the Lord "knowing their thoughts".

Matthew 12:22 Then was brought unto him [j]one possessed with a demon, blind and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the dumb man spake and saw. 23 And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, Can this be the son of David? 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man doth not cast out demons, but [k]by [l]Beelzebub the prince of the demons.


The Lord healed a man who was both blind and dumb. For example you may be a believer who has been saved. Before you never saw that Satan's kingdom was controlling the world, you were blind to that and as a result you were dumb, nothing to say. But now you see what is happening, you see the election fraud, you see that the plandemic is an act of war, you can see all kinds of evil with the Freemasons and other Satanic deep state operations. They mocked you concerning these things, concerning Hunter Biden's laptop, concerning Covid19 coming from a bioweapons lab, concerning the Georgia guidestones saying the ideal population is 500 million inferring they want to kill 7 billion people. But when it becomes clear that you can see and you can speak you get two responses: some see that this is the Lord and His return is imminent, others think this is Satan. That is bizarre, Jesus even points out how bizarre that would be. But it is a teaching of the freemasons, the reason their floors are black and white tiles is that they teach this, either you must appear very evil (like Putin) or you must appear very good (like an angel of light, like Dr. Fauci). Satan's strategy is to cause confusion so you can't tell who to believe and ultimately, like Pilate, you have no idea what truth is.

But this is what we are seeing right now, no one knows who to believe. Fair enough, but what you can conclude, like Jesus said, is if Putin and Zelensky are both part of Satan's kingdom and they are killing each other then it is indicative of the fact that Satan's kingdom can't stand. We can also conclude that if Satan over the last two thousand years has worked to divide and conquer the church by marrying it to the world, that Jesus also has worked for the last two thousand years to divide and conquer Satan's kingdom by saving people out of that kingdom, one by one, and distributing faith to each one so that when we speak it brings down Satan's kingdom. Finally we can also conclude that the Lord is not distributing faith to you, or me or anyone for the purpose of fighting against other believers, if He were dividing His kingdom against Himself then the church couldn't stand.
 

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Now consider what laws like this described in this podcast are doing. They are dividing doctors into those who care about their patients, even if it costs them their jobs and those that are more concerned about their job than their patients and so will shut up and do what they are told rather than speak the truth.

First the church married the world, now at the end of the age we find out which believers have married the world. Did a teacher stand by why they mandated a vaccine on kids even though you knew that was not following science, that was a violation of the Nuremberg laws, and that the things they were saying were lies? How about doctors, did you also go along to get along even though you could see what was really going on? One by one every person will be divided, separated.

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Yes, the point of this blog is that the Lord's return is imminent.

1. The reason I share links from many other watchmen is because if what I am saying about this being the end of the age is true there must be many others saying the same thing. The principle in the Bible is "by the mouth of two or three witnesses let a thing be established". The principle is not "majority rules". Just because 100 witnesses come forth to say what a great guy the head of the cartel is doesn't mean that you as the jury can find him innocent of crimes because the prosecution only presented 90 witnesses.

2. For the same reason I have shared multiple videos of the events taking place around the world. The Lord told us that earthquakes and natural calamities would increase. So having an earthquake it not evidence that this prophecy has been fulfilled, but seeing them increase by 40% from five decades ago is.

3. I have also included the signs in the heavens. We were given several very big signs in the heavens to look for and when we saw the Revelation 12 sign in September of 2017 that should have alerted all believers of what is about to happen.

4. I have included dreams and visions from a number of people because that is one of the prophecies in Joel that we will be at the end of the age. If there were no dreams and visions that would be evidence that this is not the end of the age.

5. I have gone into great detail concerning several current events, most notably the Covid19 pandemic because that also was the focus of the book of Joel, and I have also spent a lot of the posts on the election fraud because that is the focus of the book of Esther.

6. Likewise we are discussing the Famine and Pharaoh's dream with the cows each depicting 7 years of either plenty or famine because that prophecy has also been repeated just recently.

7. I have been tying many of these things: dreams, the visions, the election fraud, the pandemic and the famine into what is happening in Ukraine with the Russian invasion because that also was prophesied in Ezekiel 38. If anyone thinks that this invasion will just fade away then consider this, the prophecies concerning this invasion are bigger and more frightening than the prophecies concerning the pandemic, and the prophecies concerning the pandemic in Joel are more frightening than the prophecies in Habakkuk concerning the mortgage meltdown in 2008 or the 911 strike with the harbingers from that.
 

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God planted the church of Ephesus in the shadow of the biggest temple to Satan


Satan's kingdom is divided against itself.
 

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I will hear this guy out

This is the first discourse I have heard on this. I post this because I think all believers should be aware of this teaching regardless of what you think about it. No one needs to agree with this, but being aware of this is a good idea for us to not be in darkness.

2 years ago this would have sounded like a tin foil hat conspiracy theory. However, that is what they said about Covid19 being from a bioweapons lab, or about the vaccine being a kill shot, or about this digital currency with the copyright number of 666 being a harbinger of the mark of the beast. Just a year ago if you said Trudeau would prevent people from buying or selling because they had different political views it would have been tin foil hat. The pedophile ring was supposed to be tin foil hat, Hunter Biden's laptop was supposed to be tin foil hat, and all the Satan worship, Deep State, Illuminati theories were supposed to be tin foil hat (until of course we could see it clearly during Superbowl halftime shows, Satanic concerts, the Olympics, etc).

At this point all those people who call others conspiracy nuts have been striking out on a regular basis while those warning us have been batting a thousand. So, I will listen to the end of this video.

https://rumble.com/v120mb0-christia...y-are-trying-to-open-the-literal-gates-o.html
 

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The Winds of War

39 And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit? 40 The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher. 41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 42 Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me cast out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.

Was the US really in a position to tell other countries they had a mote in their eye and that we would take it out? When we look at the US foreign policy we see hypocrisy, we see an evil CIA acting as a puppet master and the entire world becoming more and more disgusted with the US, which was blind to their own evil, telling others what they needed to do to see.

43 For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit. 44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

There was a time after WWII when we helped rebuild Europe and Japan. At that time men did gather figs and grapes from the US. But no more, now our foreign policy seems to merely be to empower the CIA. It doesn't benefit the US citizen or the foreign country.

45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Consider the "speaking" done by Putin so that we can see what is in his heart.

If you were Putin and wanted to take back the Ukraine and restore the glory of Russia you would know that NATO and the US would fight you just as they did when you invaded Afghanistan. How do you prepare for that?

1. Between Russia and Ukraine you control the export market of wheat. You have to create a food shortage ahead of time, but if you do it will weaken the ability to fight against the invasion. Therefore I would see an attack on the global food supply as a prerequisite.

2. You have to make Europe dependent on Russian oil exports. That was a kind of obvious step that Trump warned Europe about, but they laughed.

But even if you have these two you know the first step that the US and NATO will take will be sanctions. How do you keep your economy from crashing?

3. I would expect Russia to make agreements with both the Saudis and China prior to invading Ukraine so that they could weather any attack on their currency. So then what agreement could you make? China wants Taiwan so fine, you support them on that, and the Mid East wants security so you agree to work with the Islamic union of nations to defeat Israel and replace the US in the Mid East.

OK, but you still have another problem, the US Javelins can wipe out your tanks. What do you do, if you invade Ukraine you get bogged down and they arm the Ukrainians to drain your country of all resources.

4. So I would expect that Putin would not invade with his best forces but his worst, expecting to lose them. Why would he do this? Well the sanctions allow him to attack the US reserve status of their currency as a response to their attack and so will be seen by the majority of countries as a just response (that is essential to get other countries to support Russia and not the US). Second, if they arm Ukraine and do things like sink your warship you can claim they started WWIII and so use tactical nukes. Meanwhile you get all of Russia into bunkers prepared for nuclear war. Then if they do nuke Russia it allows you to have a counterattack on the US which completely takes them out of the picture. If the US is experiencing a famine, massive inflation and the entire electric grid is out they will have far too many problems at home to worry about Israel.

This was the thinking in the "Winds of War". If Russia is preparing for WWIII you will see a number of actions beforehand just like we saw Germany sign the non aggression pact with Russia before invading Poland.

We can see all of this and so we can see that in Putin's heart he intends to not only take Ukraine but also to become the security for the Mid East and is prepared to go nuclear on NATO and the US.
 

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Isaiah 42:1-8 -- Everyday people's eyes are opened.

1 Behold my servant,

I am reminded of 2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. The gospels give us this vision of Jesus, if we will behold Him, if we open ourselves up to behold His glory like a mirror, we can be changed into the same glory!

whom I uphold;

what a powerful testimony when a person with no strength of their own, perhaps they aren’t a good speaker, maybe they were just uneducated Galilean fisherman, yet they can reflect that glory.

mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.


Right now the nations are in confusion, they need a clear word from God. All of the events around the world have caught their attention. Many who were obstinate “we won’t look to the Lord” are now opening up to look. This is a tremendous opportunity for the gospel.

2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.


You don’t need to promote the message. Simply speak it. They aren’t rioting in the streets like Antifa.

3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.


A reed is used to make music, if it is bruised it can be ruined for making music. In the world they break and discard it. That is true in the world, it is not true in the Kingdom. If you have been bruised the Lord is not going to break you. A torch is made out of flax. When the flame turns to nothing but smoke they will quench it and discard it. Again, you may feel that the light you are receiving from the Lord is more smoke that light. Once again, the Lord is not going to quench you. Just open yourself up to behold the Lord and you will be transformed.

4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.


The Lord is not discouraged with our shortcomings and failings. You are not doing this in your own strength, He is the one who upholds you. He has begun the work in us, He will complete it. Think about all those who should have been discarded, should have been quenched, but weren’t. Now you can see them going after this election fraud, they were called crazy, the system was doing everything in its power to ignore and discourage them. Yet they were not discouraged, they did not throw out their resolve, they didn’t quench it, didn’t discard it, but rather they kept at it and now we have proof of fraud. Arizona’s audit proves that the fraud was extensive, the lies were blatant and the election officials and dominion executives knew about it. Peter Navarro’s report proves this was not simply in Arizona but was in all of the swing states. Mike Lindell’s movies lay out the evidence that the machines were programmed to cheat. The world is seeing this and other countries are responding with election integrity laws and with decisions to get rid of the Dominion machines.

5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:


Zechariah quotes this word in chapter 12. We are talking about the creation of the kingdom being likened to the creation of the universe. Job complained about what he was going through and God said “where were you when I created the Earth”? In other words, you have no idea about how I created man, or how I create the kingdom. Then both Isaiah and Zechariah quote this as a reference to God creating the kingdom.

6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. 8 I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.


This is who Jesus is. He will hold your hand. He will open your eyes. On the one hand He will not give His praise to another, especially not to graven images (money, etc). So during this age we have seen many fail, we have seen in the day of trouble the graven images all fail, there is no glorious savior in the world. But on the other hand we have seen the Lord’s hand throughout this age, we have had our eyes opened, we have come out of the prison house. This is where your testimony should start, how Jesus is a light to you. Why does He do it this way? Why allow Biden to steal the election only to have Stop the Steal rallies, lawsuits, audits, and for the evidence to finally come to light? This is so those who are asleep can wake up. It is so the blind can see. What did He do first? He brought us out of the darkness of the prison house, we left the mainstream media and the tech giant platforms because of their censorship. We chose to not be prisoners any longer. Ever since Biden was inaugurated people have had their eyes opened. Maybe you were offended by the human rights violations at the border, you agreed with Kamala Harris who promised to put an end to it and so you voted for her. But since then the human rights violations have increased ten fold and she has completely ignored that. Maybe you voted for Biden because you felt that Trump had colluded with Russia even though numerous investigations had not been able to confirm that. But now Biden is president, we have a major cyber attack from Russia on our pipeline and within a week Biden says it isn’t Putin. Surely that has to give you pause, what is going on? Maybe the cancel culture bothers you and watching the military be purged of anyone not supporting Biden bothers you. Perhaps the incredible number of Executive orders by Biden bothers you, didn’t he say that is what a dictator does? Maybe you were a big supporter of the MeToo movement and now are bothered at the women who accused Biden of sexual abuse being ignored and the heinous attitude of Cuomo towards his accusers. The very same people who were outraged over one unsubstantiated accusation from over 20 years ago when Kavanaugh was in high school are simply ignoring ten women who have credible claims against Cuomo while he was governor. Every day people’s eyes are opened.
 

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Isaiah 42:9-20 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man

9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.


Share about the prophecies that have been fulfilled. Look at the Data Dream by Dana Coverstone, it declared these audits before they sprung forth. Think about the documentary "Watch the Water" revealing the evidence that the vaccine is actually snake venom and Covid19 was also manufactured from snake venom, this reminds me of the book of numbers where the Israelites were all complaining about eating the manna (eating the word of God) and they got bit by snakes and were going to die unless they looked to the bronze serpent on a pole. Hillary Clinton reminds me of Jezebel and Trump reminds me of Jehu. The January 6th "insurrection" reminds me of when Samson was caught and imprisoned. The Stop the Steal rallies remind me of Esther and the deplorables remind me of Mordecai.

10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.


Wouldn’t it be marvelous if the various social media platforms were filled with so many believers singing unto the Lord? Praising the Lord from one end of the earth to the other. We are in the midst of a change in the age, everytime the age changes we “sing a new song”. When Israel left Egypt they received the law at Mount Sinai and that was the beginning of a new age and from that we got many new songs. When the Lord died and rose and then poured out the Spirit at Pentecost it was the beginning of a new age and we got many new songs from that. We are now at the beginning of a new age, we are coming out of the prison houses, out of darkness, into the light of the kingdom and we will get many new songs from this as well. This is the new wine that must be put into new wine skins. Egypt couldn’t contain the new wine at the time of Moses and they burst, the Jewish religion couldn’t contain the new wine at the time of Jesus and they burst, now the world cannot contain the new wind at this time and they will burst.

11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.


The news is filled with stories of dread. Floods, famines, plague, pestilence, protests, disasters, drought, fire and gloom; out of this black background to hear this chorus of praise rising will be truly glorious. The fundamental reason for all of these horrors is corrupt shepherds. I was watching a channel that monitors the floods in China. He showed how just recently there have been terrible floods in China and then said “this happens every year”! What? I am a geologist, I study things like spring floods. Rivers are designed to flood in the spring when the snow melts. You aren’t supposed to put towns and villages in the flood plain, you should put your farms there. Only stupid, corrupt planners would do that. The politician doesn’t care because the developer is paying him cash to approve the plans. The developer doesn’t care, he isn’t going to live in the town. It is cheap and easy to build in the plains rather than on high ground. When you let crooks run the government you will pay the price for their corruption. When you get rid of them and give glory to the Lord you will then declare His praise.

13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

This is a new year. The Lord was a God who hides Himself, He was holding His peace. While the world was off doing its own thing, ignoring Him, He has been building His masterpiece. His church, His bride, the man child that will dispossess the enemy. Now it is time to go forth as a mighty man of war. Now it is time to cry aloud. Look at the news, we see people crying out at school board meetings like a woman in travail. People are crying out about the horrors taking place at the border, the horrors taking place in the schools, and the fraud that took place during the election.

16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.


Even now there are Christians who can’t see what is about to happen or how it will happen. To them the Red Sea is impenetrable. The Lord is not going to forsake any one of us, He will be the one leading us by the hand with a pillar of fire in the night. He will take us on a path that we have not known even though He has told us of this before they spring forth. We have seen new platforms like FrankSpeech, Gab, and Rumble open up. We have seen people become active in school boards, precincts, and journalism.

17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

Really? Some of these people seem incapable of shame, much less to be “greatly ashamed”. I think this is referring to religious leaders who have trusted in money. Those that preach the prosperity gospel. I think it is also referring to the mainstream media that has completely abandoned any semblance of being impartial. I think it is also referring to Big Tech, just watch the Project Veritas videos. They thought they could simply pay $400 million to swing the election. They will be “greatly ashamed”. They will be caught, they will be exposed, they will be prosecuted. The Lord desires all men to be saved, so then some will have to be greatly ashamed before truly repenting and receiving Him. I do believe when we get to the judgement seat of Christ we will see that He was exceedingly merciful and was able to not only save to the uttermost but also save the uttermost people.

19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant? 20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.


So this explains how and why they are greatly ashamed. They have been arrogant saying that the gentiles are blind and they see. The gentiles are deaf but they hear. So think how greatly ashamed they will be when it becomes clear that they were the ones who were blind and deaf. This is the point of the GameStop scandal. The elites treated the “unwashed masses” as being blind and stupid. But then they got caught, trapped, and the corruption and fraud was apparent for all to see. We saw this at the beginning of the age when the Religious leaders rejected Jesus: “the stone which the builders have rejected has become the head of the corner”. We’ll see this at the end of the age as well with many religious leaders.
 

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Isaiah 42:21-25 We need a government that can restore

21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

There has been a concerted campaign by atheists to dishonor the law. They reject it, they slander it, they mock and ridicule it. The defund the police movement was an attack on the law, but now people are seeing how horrible is a society without police.

22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

This is the way of the world. They are looking for that one person “who has got talent” to then promote. Someone from CNN tweeted “we need another Hitler” just yesterday. They want a dictator who will trample the opposition to get things done. It is the complete opposite of the church where we want everyone in the choir. We want everyone to sing praises to the Lord, to share their testimony of how He has saved and restored them. Everyone is snared watching a bunch of millionaires play a game with a ball rather than playing themselves. You got snared, they took you for prey. This is what the GameStop scandal is all about. “Who are you, serfs, to think you can handle your own investments without paying us 2-3% for the benefit of our expertise.

23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

This is why the Lord hid Himself, why He held his peace and refrained Himself. Now at the end of the age you can compare. The worldly system brought you to ruin. It was based on everyone being snared in a hole, hid in prison houses, spoiled and robbed. Meanwhile the church that was despised and ridiculed has grown, it has prospered, it has restored all those who were discarded by the world. All those bruised reeds are now singing a new song, all those smoking flaxes are now burning bright. What is a true shepherd but one that can restore. You want a shepherd that can restore a bruised reed or that can restore smoking flax.

25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.


This verse sounds like a very clear description of wildfires in California, New Mexico, Colorado and Oregon. Hollywood has replaced the Lord’s word with their own stories. They are the exact opposite of the Lord. They lift up their voice in the street and cry out to promote their movies and music. Their land is littered with all the bruised reeds they have discarded and all the smoking torches they have quenched. They trust in graven images. They are confused, they have no solution, and the fire round about them has been poured out like fury. Yet you do not hear one word of repentance. No one is saying we are reaping what we sowed. But that is what happened to California. They were the richest state in the US and have become the poorest, they are reaping what they sowed.
 

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Psalm 83 Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever

1 O God, keep not thou silence:
Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult;
And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They take crafty counsel against thy people,
And consult together against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;
That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent;
Against thee do they make a covenant:
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:
8 Assyria also is joined with them;
They have helped the children of Lot. Selah


Lord the January 6th riot was an intelligence operation from the FBI to put a stop to the populist movement. We now know they stuffed the ballot with at least 50,000 votes in Arizona. Soros, Zuckerberg, the CCP and the democrats conspired to steal the election. The military and deep state are arming the Taliban and Iran to fight Israel. The pandemic was planned assault on the middle class and democracy. The vaccine mandate is a crafty plan. Even organized religion is cooperating with their plan.

9 Do thou unto them as unto Midian,
As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
10 Who perished at Endor,
Who became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;
Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession

The habitations of God.

May this election audit put a stake through their brain. May the movies Rigged and 2,000 mules wake up the entire country to the deceit. Can the revelations concerning the Wuhan bioweapon released on the earth, the election steal, and the aid and comfort to our enemies all expose them and condemn them.

13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust;
As stubble before the wind.


Just like these dust storms we are seeing in the Middle East.

14 As the fire that burneth the forest,
And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,


Just like these fires we are seeing around the world and in Siberia.

15 So pursue them with thy tempest,
And terrify them with thy storm.


Just like these hurricanes we are witnessing.

16 Fill their faces with confusion,
That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.


Just like Joe Biden being asked a question. May all these things wake up people to seek You.

17 Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever;
Yea, let them be confounded and perish;
18 That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah,

Art the Most High over all the earth.
 

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God's Opinion

Job 32:
6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said,

I am young, and ye are very old;
Wherefore I held back, and durst not show you mine opinion.
7 I said, Days should speak,
And multitude of years should teach wisdom.
8 But there is a spirit in man,
And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
9 It is not the great that are wise,
Nor the aged that understand justice.
10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me;
I also will show mine opinion.

11 Behold, I waited for your words,
I listened for your reasonings,
Whilst ye searched out what to say.
12 Yea, I attended unto you,
And, behold, there was none that convinced Job,
Or that answered his words, among you.
13 Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom;
God may vanquish him, not man:
14 For he hath not directed his words against me;
Neither will I answer him with your speeches.

15 They are amazed, they answer no more:
They have not a word to say.
16 And shall I wait, because they speak not,
Because they stand still, and answer no more?
17 I also will answer my part,
I also will show mine opinion.
18 For I am full of words;
The spirit within me constraineth me.
19 Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent;
Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.
20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed;
I will open my lips and answer.
21 Let me not, I pray you, respect any man’s person;
Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man.
22 For I know not to give flattering titles;
Else would my Maker soon take me away.


This was my thought in starting this blog. There have been many great Bible teachers over the last two thousand years, great sermons, great preachers, and yet it seemed that had all dried up. I had a very simple question, what does the Bible say? It seems everyone has an opinion and is so focused on their opinion they can't listen to what God has to say.
 

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We limit not the word of God


Personally I have shied away from this but it has become quite popular with a number of people doing it, using numbers and looking at the Strong's concordance to find meaning. I putting this up as an example of what they are doing. Strong's numbers words based on first occurrence, so if the word was the first word in Genesis it would be 1, if it showed up as the 1,000th word it would be 1,000. If God has put meaning into that then all the more glory to Him. It is not as far fetched as it might seem, surely God knows the Strong's concordance and so now can put meaning into various numbers.

The thing to realize is that there will be no "new" teaching or doctrine that comes from this, however, God can speak in a multitude of ways and if this is one of them then so be it.
 

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In Ephesus we see that they wanted Christ magnified and they were consecrated, given to the Lord.

Ephesians 1-3 = how they magnified Christ.

Ephesian 4-6 = how they were consecrated Put off, be renewed, put on

It is like getting undressed, taking a shower and then putting on new clothes.
 

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The day of Redemption

There is still a lot of disagreement about the "rapture" and the primary dispute is that the term itself is vague and the often interpreted from allegorical or typological teaching. That is a valid complaint. No teaching should be based solely on allegory or typology. Noah is a type, Ruth is a type, the harvest is an allegory, what we need is the black and white teaching concerning the rapture.

The rapture = the day of redemption.

Consider the following verses:

Romans 8:23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God’s sons).

Ephesians 1:14 That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it—to the praise of His glory.

Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [do not offend or vex or sadden Him], by Whom you were sealed (marked, branded as God’s own, secured) for the day of redemption (of final deliverance through Christ from evil and the consequences of sin).

In a Jewish wedding the betrothal is considered a redemption. The groom exchanges a ring or something of value with the Bride, he then goes and prepares a place for them to live and then will come and bring her to where he is. That is the full redemption, the redemption of our body (Rom 8:23). We received the Spirit on Pentecost as a guarantee of our inheritance in anticipation that at the rapture we would have the full redemption (Ephesians 1:14). When we received the Spirit we were sealed, marked out, just like a woman who is betrothed is marked out for the day of redemption, the wedding day, our rapture.
 

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Studying the word of God

DTBM is a big proponent of memorizing the Bible and circling, underlining and otherwise marking up the Bible. Dr. Barry Awe is also a big proponent of marking up the Bible. This is obviously a tried and true approach to studying the word of God that many have used.

However, I do not do either. When I first got saved I read something from Watchman Nee where he talked about washing rice how the water drains out but the rice gets cleaned. He was teaching on the verse about being washed in the water in the word and his point was even if you don't feel like you have retained anything from the word of God then you are still being washed. Then Bill Freeman once shared with several young brothers that he reads a book 100 times before he studies it. After than talk one brother joked that he would start with studying Philemon. However, whenever I thought about which book to study I couldn't decide. I wanted to study all of them.

So then, instead of focusing on one book I wanted to read through the Bible 100x's. After about 7 years I was in a training where they asked us to tabulate how many times we had read the Bible. I calculated that I had read the entire Bible 25-26 times while many of the books in the New Testament I had read 100x and a few others that we had gone over in our church meetings I had read 50xs. A sister had made songs out of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians. I had those and had probably listened to each of them close to 50x and Ephesians and Colossians probably 100x (they were the better songs). A few years later I got the Bible on DVD and was able to listen to it while commuting to work. I think I was easily able to up my total time through the Bible to over 50x and again many of those books I had read more often were now over 100x and probably the entire New Testament.

I still don't actively try to memorize scripture so what I would say is key is reading the word, however you do it. Also I don't mark up my Bible, I find that confusing and just makes it hard to read. That said if you look at this blog you will see I do make comments on the word and I keep a journal of that.
 

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A further word on Memorizing

The brother who has the Prophecy Club ministry said that he memorized the book of Revelation and that had a major impact on his ministry.

Prior to going to a 10 day training on the book of Philippians I read the entire book daily for more than a month and then prior to the training I realized I had memorized the book without trying. I also feel that the time spent in this book has had a profound impact on my Christian life.

Philippians is a book that focuses very much on the experiential aspect of the word of God and of the Christian life. That has really been my focus. I want to experience the word and I want the Lord Jesus to be my experience.

Pastor Sandy learned the Bible by learning Hebrew, DTBM is focused on the history, Chuck Missler came at the Bible from a mathematical and engineering point of view and Stan from Prophecy club is focused on prophecies and visions. There are so many different aspects for the saints to focus on, no one can do it all.
 

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Yet more on Memorizing

Dr. Barry Awe likes to recite his favorite Psalm from memory. That Psalm speaks to him repeatedly and has become a controlling vision. I would encourage this, like Stan, or Dr. Barry Awe or my own experience I would recommend that instead of memorizing individual verses memorize chapters, or Psalms or entire books. It will become a touchstone that you can go to again and again.

DTBM, Watchman Nee and others have encouraged memorizing the "golden verses", the key verses in Christian doctrine. Whatever works for you because the Lord has created us with a variety of gifts, talents, and burdens.
 

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Through the Looking Glass

If we put together all the things we know to be true it tells a very incredible story. I am going to begin with Climate change but will end up with the Pandemic and the vaccine mandate.

1. Look at the wild weather today and no doubt many are going to say that this is due to Climate change, a theory that began to go viral in the 80s, had a big debate over it in the 90s and became generally accepted (at least in principal) in the last 20 years. This year we are having incredible floods all over the world, huge dust storms, very active hurricane season, lot of tornadoes, epic droughts and even hail during the summer. But there are a couple of issues that should be noted, considered and explained. First, as a result of the pandemic the amount of greenhouse gases put into the air in the last 18 months has decreased dramatically. So while we are seeing what appears to be "climate change" accelerating at a phenomenal rate it is happening at the same time that the exhaust of greenhouse gases is decreasing at an equally phenomenal rate. The second issue is that all of our dire predictions concerning climate change like Florida being underwater by the year 2000 have not come true, have not even come close to coming true. Yet no one was predicting this wild weather we are seeing this year so that is exceeding all expectations and predictions. We'll come back to this point.

2. The Earth's axis has begun to wobble dramatically this year. That is a very big deal and could explain hail in the summer and people wearing shorts in Alaska in the Springtime. The explanation we have been given is that as the ice melts it is causing this. This seems to be absurd for several reasons. First, we have had GPS for 20 years and the ice has been melting for that time as well. Surely as the ice melted we would have noticed this and scientists would have predicted this. Neither are true.

3. Meanwhile the Earth's magnetic field is also weakening and shifting rapidly. This has happened in the past, that is true, but there is no explanation given why. It would be an incredible coincidence if something that happens every 100,000 years just happened to take place the same year our axis of rotation began to wobble and our weather went berserk.

4. Earthquakes have become much more frequent and more powerful. There are two ways to look at earthquakes, you can simply count the number, say all those worldwide that are 2.5 or greater on the Richter scale. On average the world had about 10 per day. This year we are averaging about 50 per day, in the last 24 hours we had 54. The other way you can look at it is by power. A 3.5 is ten times more powerful than 2.5, 4.5 is 100xs more powerful, a 5.5 is 1000x more powerful, and a 6.5 is 10,000 times more powerful. In the last 24 hours we have had 12 Earthquakes that are 4.5 to 6.5 in power. So we are having a 500% increase in the frequency of earthquakes and at least 500% increase in the power if not more. You can't explain that with climate change.

5. We are also seeing an increase in volcanic activity with 48 active volcanoes including Krakatoa at this moment (almost double what it was a few months ago). You can't explain that with climate change.

6. Schumann resonance is a very interesting phenomenon similar to playing a guitar. When you strum the strings the vibrations will cause the guitar to vibrate and that is why there is that hole cut in the guitar. That will limit the size of the sound waves and create a resonant frequency. In the same way when the Earth's atmosphere is bombarded with radiation from the sun it causes the atoms and molecules to vibrate and because of the size of the Earth and the atmosphere you get a resonant frequency for the Earth. We call that the Schumann resonance and we thought it was a constant at 7.83 Hz, but recently it has spiked up to 15 or even 25 Hz. Also the power is off the charts, our standard graphs anticipated spikes in amplitude, yet these spikes on a daily basis are off the chart. You cannot explain this with climate change.

7. There is something else very strange about the energy coming into the Earth. The NOAA (National oceanic and atmospheric association) monitors the Sun with special satellites. What is very weird is that this gauges the amount of energy coming to Earth from the Sun and it has been recording total solar eclipses that they don't explain. If the moon steps in front of the sun (during an new moon) it will cause a very small area of the earth to experience a total solar eclipse and receive 0 energy for a few minutes. We know that whatever this object is it cannot be the moon and we also know that is very likely that this object is much, much larger than the moon or else is much, much closer than the moon. You cannot explain that with climate change.

8. Now this raises a whole new problem, why is the Mainstream media so silent about something that is obviously so huge? A large object bigger than the moon or closer than the moon, either way it can explain all 7 items on this list. In fact this object that we have so much evidence of is a much better explanation of the first item and the second item than climate change is, and since climate change doesn't explain the other five it is much better at explaining those as well. Also instead of having 6 huge coincidences and 1 point without any explanation, we have one object without any coincidences. Occam's razor, keep it simple.

9. But now we have more "coincidences". The US sent out a special deep solar system probe in 1972 to find an object that appeared to be disturbing the orbits of Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto. In 1979 the US moved Plum Island a secure bioweapons lab located on an island more than a hundred miles from the shore in order to protect us in the event of a leak, they moved that to Kansas? There is no valid explanation given for that move. Russia began work in the 1980s on a 400 square mile underground city in the Ural mountains, and the US also built 130 underground military bases, like cities, connected by Mag-lev trains. The only reason to build cities underground is to prepare for some cataclysmic event.

10. But guess what, if Warren Buffet buys $100 million worth of stock it is front page news, people see that as investment advice. We assume these billionaires know what they are doing and pay attention to them when they do something like that. Well, Forbes published an article saying that "Billionaire bunkers" have increased in sales by 2,000%. Billionaires can choose to live wherever they want. Why would they want to live underground? Why is this not considered "investment advice" and front page news?

11. So why exactly has the news been so silent on all this? They are focused on "climate change" a theory that really took off a decade after the US discovered this approaching planet that would cause apocalyptic events on Earth.
 

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Through the Looking Glass, part 2

12. However, if the US has known about this for the last 40+ years what is the plan? They have built underground bunkers for the government and for billionaires, but what about the rest of us? Well first of all in 2003 Bush met with the leaders of all the nations and advised them of this, so one part of the plan is for all countries to build their own bunkers. But this is where the Pandemic comes in, I think this is part of the plan.

13. We know that the pandemic was made in a bioweapons lab, and that this lab was partially funded by the US. We also know that Fauci was fully involved with this lab but never said a word about it to Trump. When Trump wanted to shut down flights to and from China Fauci was against it. When scientists said this could become a pandemic they were mocked and ridiculed. When Trump said we could use HCQ to treat it Fauci said you couldn't and claimed studies proved this (there were no studies and he was lying). We also know that Cuomo and Whitmer both put sick people back into nursing homes and that increased the numbers who died significantly even though there were plenty of hospital beds in field hospitals set up in NYC and the Mercy ship sent to NYC. We know that Fauci claimed Cuomo was the gold standard of how to deal with this and accused Desantis of being anti science. We also know the death totals were greatly inflated and that was the basis for shutting down the economy and the schools. We also know they are using the goal of reopening the economy and the schools as a reason to mandate an experimental vaccine for everyone. These are the facts.

14. Based on what we know about the Pandemic it is not a stretch to conclude that the goal was the vaccine. Most people think we get a disease and that motivates people to make a cure. In this case it looks like they made a vaccine and then created the pandemic to motivate people to take the vaccine. And so now we must enter the bizarro world on the other side of the looking glass.

15. This catastrophic event is tied to a planet that has an elliptical orbit that brings it by the Earth every 3,600 years. It may have been the reason for Noah's flood and it may have been the reason for all those strange events in Exodus including the Red Sea parting. But interestingly, what also happened those two times is the existing power was overthrown. It caused a "great reset". Noah was given a new covenant for government, and Moses was given a new covenant for human government. This catastrophic event does not wipe out all people, rather it wipes out human government. If you destroy human government then what do you have left? Farmers and mechanics will be king. There are a number of jobs that would be very valuable but politician and lawyer don't make the list. We also don't need CEO's, CFO's, accountants, or the IRS. The people in power stand to lose everything. The mark of the beast is a desperate attempt by a satanic system to hold onto power.

16. People get very confused by money and that is by design. So let's make this real simple, which is better to have a million dollars or to have the printing press that prints money? If you want to be powerful you need to have the printing press, one world government will be the most powerful and having the one world government's printing press would be the greatest power.

17. Second, what is the "all seeing eye"? Knowledge is power. If I can track every person on earth, I control whether or not they can get a job, whether or not they get paid, whether or not they can buy lunch, then that is real power. Having a printing press is great, but being able to control every single person's bank account, that is awesome power. That is the mark of the Beast, awesome power.