Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

There is an Anti Gospel

There is a common misconception among Christians and that is that the gospel is "the good news". It is the good news for creation which is groaning for the revelation of the sons of God, it is the good news to those who have received Jesus work of redemption, it is even the good news for people who obey the moral laws of God without actually receiving the work of Jesus done on the cross. But at the same time it is not good news for everyone.

Joseph was the "Master of the dreams". Now for the cup bearer that was good news, but what about for the Baker? Joseph was also given the name Zaph Naph Paaneah which means "Savior of the world" and for the Egyptians that was good news. But if Joseph was made prime minister what about the guy who got replaced?

Moses was a type of Christ leading the Jews out of slavery and into the good land. That was "good news" for them. But what about those people who lost their slaves? What about Pharaoh's armies that got buried in the Red Sea? What about all those families that lost their firstborn?

We read Esther and cheer for the underdog, we cheer when Esther and Mordecai win. But their winning meant that Haman and his sons lost.

Now many might think, this is obvious. Well if it is obvious then it should also be obvious that there are those who are fighting against the gospel. Not just when they get caught, tried and hung at the Nuremberg trials but even more before they get caught. In other words what you see as catastrophic, lets say the Oklahoma bombing, or the assassination of JFK or even 9/11, you see these that way because you are looking through the lens of the gospel. But what about the lens of those who are fighting against the gospel, how do they see it?

Hitler was an elected representative with a very small percentage of the vote of the German people. But he manufactured events that allowed him to get more power. For example he claimed the communists were destroying Germany, then they got some poor mentally challenged communist and framed him for the Reichstag fire. Instantly Hitler's ravings seemed to be "prescient". The formula is relatively simple, you argue about a problem that is insignificant or trivial, then you create a false flag event that makes it look like you are insightful and all the other politicians are clumsy oafs, then the people look to you for the solution, and the solution is to give you more power. Make Hitler the Chancellor, suspend certain laws, institute martial law, nationalize the police, etc.

There is an "anti gospel" which is the Machiavellian strategy to keep the 1% as the 1%. Think about it, if your gospel is to free the slaves that sounds great to everyone except the slave holders. If your gospel is to break the bonds that have us imprisoned, that sounds great to everyone except Pharaoh which uses prison labor to build his kingdom. The good news for the 99% is not the same as the good news for the 1%.

Democracy was a "good idea", an interesting "experiment". Why would they say that, Democracy is real isn't it? Well the 1% knew that if they control what you hear they can control what you think. If they control the school and the media you will do what they say. It is not hard to buy up 500 representatives, so even though they can't control 350 million people so what, cut you off from the business of governing, then buy out 500 key people and it won't matter.

We figured in a Democracy no one would want to fight a war unless it was to protect our country from attack. Is that why we fought the Vietnam war? Were we really afraid the North Vietnamese were going to attack the US? What about the Gulf wars, were we really afraid of WMD's? Did our government really believe Saddam Hussein, a secular ruler trying to hold together a variety of religious factions was behind an attack from a religious extremist? Were all of our police actions which for the most part damaged our international reputation, were they really about being a peacemaker or was it about power and influence?

Why is it that dictators are so paranoid they have to know what every person is saying and thinking? People who have nothing to hide are not paranoid. People who are not planning atrocities and genocide are not paranoid. Haman was paranoid, Pharaoh was paranoid, the Baker was paranoid.

Understanding the Shemitah and Jubilee

This confused me, how do you count from one jubilee to the next? God divides history up in Shemitah's, a 7 year period. After 7 complete Shemitah's the first year of the 8th Shemitah cycle is the Jubilee. On the Jubilee year you always announce that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews.

In 1917 the Balfour Declaration did that.

In 1967 the Jerusalem was returned to the Jews control.

In 2017 Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem.

Therefore we can conclude that these are definitely jubilee years. Also, there is a very famous prophecy from a Rabbi about 500 years before the Balfour declaration which prophesied concerning these three jubilees taking place prior to the 70th week in Daniel's prophecy.

It would be very difficult to believe that the 70th week does not refer to a Shemitah, a seven year period.

So then if the tribulation is going to start it would either be this year on Feast of Trumpets (September 25, 2022) or else September of 2029.

Can anyone really believe that this situation will continue to get worse and worse till 2029 without the tribulation starting till then?

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge." Adolf Hitler

The biggest threat to the Dictators is not guns, it is the gospel of Jesus Christ. If people live according to their conscience you can't buy them, you can't threaten them. The 1% is greatly outnumbered by the 99%. They need us, we don't need them. Do you think anyone missed the Baker, or how about the Israelites that left Egypt, did they miss the Pharaoh, or what about Esther, did she miss Haman? They need the slaves to do the work. They don't need all of them, they don't mind killing a few thousand in a OKC bombing or a NYC attack, or even a global pandemic. The bottom line is that when Israel left Egypt it was a far bigger loss for Egypt than it was for the Israelites.

Other than Israel who has ever had the nerve to stand up to tyrannical rule? Gandhi did, but that was based on the word of God. Martin Luther King Jr. did but that also was based on the word of God. Muhammad Ali did but that was based on a man listening to his conscience despite the cost.

This is what scares tyrants, the gospel, the Spirit, the word of God, people walking according to their conscience. This is why Hitler said that world history boiled down to a battle between Hitler's henchmen and the Jews and that everything else was facade.

“The struggle for world domination will be fought entirely between us, between Germans and Jews. All else is facade and illusion. Behind England stands Israel, and behind France, and behind the United States. Even when we have driven the Jew out of Germany, he remains our world enemy" Adolf Hitler

Is this one more piece to the puzzle?


This dream says the Lord is coming on a full moon, which is Biblical.

My dream indicated the Lord was coming on the Lord's day which would be Sept 11, 2022, which is a full moon.

We had another prophecy that compared the two witnesses starting their ministry to the Lord starting His, which would compare the dove descending on them.

If we compare that with the days of Noah it would indicate that the rapture would be two weeks before that date, and that date would be the start of the tribulation which would be the Feast of Trumpets, September 25th, 2022.

This lines up with Ken Peters dream which showed that after the rapture there were two weeks with the power out.

2Samuel 19:1-8 -- Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation

Paul writes, "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death" (2 Corinthians 7:10).

1 Joab was told, “The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.” 2 And for the whole army the victory that day was turned into mourning, because on that day the troops heard it said, “The king is grieving for his son.” 3 The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle. 4 The king covered his face and cried aloud, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!” 5 Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, “Today you have humiliated all your men, who have just saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines. 6 You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us were dead. 7 Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the calamities that have come on you from your youth till now.” 8 So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the men were told, “The king is sitting in the gateway,” they all came before him. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.

The only way we can understand this story is if we lived it. Let’s suppose that this story of King David returning to Jerusalem after an insurrection is our experience. Jesus Christ returns as the conquering King, only problem is that many of the believers, many even of his own family had betrayed Him. To those believers the Lord’s coming is as a thief in the night. It is easy for us to see how that for those who stuck with Him even when He was disgraced and fled Jerusalem would be rejoicing. But, when the Lord returns at the time of the first rapture there will be many believers who are not taken. It will be shameful, it will be something that brings sorrow. If it is a godly sorrow those who are left will repent and prepare to meet the Lord. If, on the other hand it is a worldly sorrow like that of Absalom fleeing from David’s army, then it will lead to death.

Jesus is the greater David. King David is a type of Jesus in His earthly ministry but not in His heavenly ministry. Not everything he did was a shadow of Jesus Christ. This story is a great example. Jesus will be truly sorrowful over the "believers" who betrayed Him and were part of the apostasy. When the Lord returns there will be those who denied His name and did not keep His word. Otherwise it would be pointless to commend those believers who didn't deny His name and did keep His word. This story shows us there will be three types of "believers" at the Lord's return. Those that were faithful to Him, those that were not faithful and went whichever way the wind blowed, and the traitors. The traitors will be routed, defeated, tried, imprisoned, or in some other way dealt with. The jellyfish believers will be ashamed, flee to their homes, and be humiliated, and the faithful ones will be there with the Lord in the gates of Jerusalem. King David here is a shadow of Christianity, there will be a lot of shame, a lot of humiliation, but very quickly they will need to snap out of it and realize that those who were raptured were over the target and become imitators of them as you have them for an example.

We wrestle against principalities and powers


What is Moloch and Baal worship?


Moloch -- money changers. The symbol on the Moloch statue is the symbol they think will be on the mark of the beast. You can also see the all seeing eye on this statue and 666.

Baal -- means Lord and master. This is about human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and human sacrifice of children. it is a very cruel worship and yet these are the ones who own and control the world. They believe in lying, murder, blackmail, etc.

These are the gods of the people around Israel Judges 2:12. If you worship these gods then God will sell you into the hands of your enemies. This is what is happening right now in America.

Filling in this Shemitah theory

God divides history up in Shemitah's, a 7 year period. After 7 complete Shemitah's the first year of the 8th Shemitah cycle is the Jubilee. On the Jubilee year you always announce that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews.

In 1917 the Balfour Declaration did that.

In 1967 the Jerusalem was returned to the Jews control.

In 2017 Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem.

Therefore we can conclude that these are definitely jubilee years. Also, there is a very famous prophecy from a Rabbi about 500 years before the Balfour declaration which prophesied concerning these three jubilees taking place prior to the 70th week in Daniel's prophecy. He said the first one would be at the end of the Ottoman empire, the second one Israel would get Jerusalem back and the third one would be the last jubilee.

It would be very difficult to believe that the 70th week does not refer to a Shemitah, a seven year period. Since 2017 was the first year of this Shemitah cycle, 2022 is the last one. So then if the tribulation is going to start it would either be this year on Feast of Trumpets (September 25, 2022) or else September of 2029.

Can anyone really believe that this situation will continue to get worse and worse till 2029 without the tribulation starting till then? We are going into a very serious recession that they are already calling a depression, and we are seeing massive shortages that will result in famine for many countries. Russia is poised to become allied with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran to attack Israel. The Great dragon has surrounded Taiwan just like the Revelation 12 sign.

But there are other more compelling reasons. The fig tree prophecy says that Jesus will return in the clouds and great glory to rescue Israel before the generation that saw Israel reformed passes away. Psalms 90 tells us that a generation is 70-80 years. 80 years from 1948 is 2028. If Jesus returns on the clouds before May 2028 then the 70th week would have to begin this year in 2022.

Pastor Sandy has also shown many prophecies in the Old Testament and Psalms that point to 2022 as the year of the rapture. This is based on the Hebrew words and meanings.

The Revelation 12 sign happens once in a thousand years, and it happened in 2017. That is a major sign of the imminent rapture of the church.

The book of Joel says that a worldwide pandemic will shut down the worlds economy because God is declaring a Sabbath rest, and that this is a sign that the day of the Lord is at hand. The pandemic in 2022 is the first time in human history that the world's economy was shut down. Such a thing was unthinkable just a few years earlier.

So then if the Tribulation begins September 25, 2022 it will be "as the days of Noah". In that case it will be when the ministry of the Antichrist is unveiled as a counterfeit to the ministry of Jesus. It will also be when the ministry of the two witnesses is kicked off. Jesus ministry began with the Spirit as a dove descending on Him at His baptism. In the same way the third time that Noah released the dove it didn't return because it found a place to rest the soles of its feet.

One week before the dove was released and returned with a freshly plucked Olive leaf. The two witnesses are called the two olive trees and a leaf represents our works. So these two witnesses are working at this point. One week before this the dove is released, goes out over the water and then returns to the ark. I think this depicts the rapture with the Spirit, the Eleazar, going to gather Christ's bride and take them to the ark for safety.

Two weeks before September 25th is September 11th, 2022. Interestingly this is 21 years after 9/11 and in Daniel the angel says he was delayed in coming to Daniel for 21 days.

It is also interesting that Ken Peters had a dream in 1980 about the rapture and afterwards he said there were two weeks where the power was off. That also would correspond with this timeline.

One type of the rapture is Lazarus being raised from the dead. Afterwards Jesus eats with Mary, Martha and Lazarus, but not the same day he is raised because they are still unclean from having handled a dead body. Still He eats with them on the Lord's day and it prefigures the Lord's table celebration in the church. Likewise if the rapture takes place on the 11th, then on the 18th there can be this celebratory meal with the Lord, the same day the Spirit returns to the ark with the olive leaf. This then sets the stage for Jesus to enter Jerusalem triumphantly. In the same way many have wondered how these two witnesses could have a worldwide ministry. They assume they must be ministering for six months to three years. However, a worldwide rapture would be a powerful way to launch a ministry.

This is also how the AntiChrist's ministry is launched. You will have a collapse of the world's economy, the Great Babylon cast into the sea and her judgement coming in a single hour. He will claim to be the coming Messiah that the Koran speaks of. He will claim that those who were raptured were bad people taken by benevolent aliens (the great delusion). The economy generally collapses on the 29th of Elul at the end of a Shemitah cycle. That would be Friday. People will look for a strong leader to save them after something like that.

https://rumble.com/v1g670p-hail-to-the-chief-08162022.html

Coverstone Dream -- Hail to the Chief

This is a call to prayer.

Get ready for more than war and speak the truth at risk of the sword.

A war on our soil will be more than a war. We have been warned repeatedly of war on our soil.

Tertiary -- third of three. Joe Biden is the third of three: Clinton, Obama, Biden.

What is Holy is now considered to be profane

Many historians view the Maccabean revolt as a civil war among the jews dealing with the apostasy.

The apostasy began first and it was the apostate Jews that led Antiochus into the temple.

The meaning of the lighting the light is that this apostasy and persecution could not have happened if the light of God had been shining.

The first thing that happens in the apostasy is the church is no longer salt and light. The compromise with the world is what opens the door for the antichrist.

It happens to a culture that once knew God. Post Christian results in Hitler, Stalin, and holocaust. Rejection of Jesus Christ is worse than it is for those who never knew Jesus.

Warring against its own foundation. Tearing down statues, claiming the history was racist genocide.

in Daniel the fourth beast is different from all the other beasts. Antiochus sought to change all the laws, all the customs -- changed or altered kingdom. Changing male and female, changing marriage, changing genders are examples of what this means.

The fourth beast is unnatural. AI, robotics, genetic engineering are all examples of changing nature.

Spirit of Antichrist is to change what is natural for what is unnatural.

In Maccabees they installed perverse people in power. People who would never be in power are lifted up. for example a transgender woman becomes a four star general in charge of the military while war heroes are pushed aside on the fringe. People who had been operating in the dark are now out in the open while those who walk according to God's will go into hiding.

Again, the spirit of Antichrist depicts Christians as having something wrong with them. Rarely depicts them reading the Bible or praying, rather they have caricatures of people preaching hellfire and brimstone while being exceedingly immoral.

A spirit of arrogance, a spirit of blasphemy. Things we would never have imagined are now on TV. Many years ago you would never have comedians talking about God and Jesus, now it is common.

Spirit of tolerance becomes spirit of intolerance. The only thing they tolerate is evil.

Evidence that the tribulation begins Sept 25, 2022 based on the interpretation that it will be 6,000 years to the the millenial reign and 7,000 years to the end of the millenial reign.

Antiochus declared we will all be one people.

Today the UN is doing the same thing, the only people who don't fit in are Orthodox Jews and Evangelical Christians.

Antiochus means "God Manifest" -- He calls himself God. It also means there is no rule above me, it is the mystery of lawlessness. Changing Gods, customs, time, and redefines whatever he wants is another way you declare yourself God.

Zeus seduces this woman as a bull, she rides the beast, the woman's name was Europa, she becomes Europe. She is a harlot, this could mean she once knew God and is unfaithful. They symbol that Europe now has is a woman riding a beast -- Antichrist.

Antiochus declares the word of God illegal. If you were found with the word of God you were condemned to death. They tore up the scrolls and burned them. He warred against the word of God and against prayer.

This began in 1962 when they took prayer out of the schools

Keys of the Maccabees

Hillbillies of Israel

1. No compromise with sin. They drew a line in the sand and said that is it, not going past that line.

2. They were the minority and didn't care

3. Fought with the word of God. It doesn't matter how many they are outnumbered by, the only thing that matters is if we are with God and He is with us.

4. Went against the spirit of the times. They didn't care if they were politically correct. They became more radical.

5. Learned how to become warriors. They took the things that they were attacked with and turned it around. The sword the enemy fought with they seized it and used it to fight with the enemy.

This is tough, you need to listen to this slowly and carefully to fully understand it, but he does explain how he gets to a very specific year for the discipline to end and he explains why 2520 is such a significant number, why 360 is used as a prophetic year, and how we get to 2022.

1. In 606 BC, the 9th of Av, Nebuchadnezzar takes the Children of Israel into captivity.

2,520 years later WW1 begins on the 9th of Av.

2,520 = 3x7x10x12. 3 = Divine perfection. 7 = Divine completion. 10 = ordinal perfection. 12 = governmental perfection. The number of the divine super cycle. This is the only number that can be divided by all the numbers 1 through 9 without leaving a remainder. 7 x 360 (the number of days in one prophetic year) = 2520. Divine completion times a prophetic year equals this super cycle of God’s clock.

2. 19 years after Nebuchadnezzar Jerusalem is taken in 587 BC on the 9th of Av. 2,520 years later in 1933 Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany on the 9th of Av.

3. 13 years later God speaks to Nebuchadnezzar that he would be a beast for seven years. 2,520 years later we have the Nuremberg trials in 1946.

From this same time 1,260 years later in 686 AD the Dome of the rock is built (the abomination of desolation spoken of in Daniel). The dome of the rock took seven years to build just as Nebuchadnezzar spent seven years as a beast.

1,260 years from the dome of the rock being built in 686 AD is 1946 AD and the Nuremberg trials.

1,335 years from the dome fo the rock being built is this year beginning at feast of trumpets in 2021 and ending September 25th, 2022. Daniel 12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

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Take a look -- The Lord is showing you the seven Thunders -- "Release the giants upon the earth!"

Luke 13:1-9 -- Unless you repent, you too will all perish

13 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

A terrible human atrocity, the holocaust in Germany is an example of this. Some look at this event and say that the Jews who were in the camps were treated this way for the sin they committed. But the Lord makes it clear, instead this happened to warn all Jews that unless they repent and return to the Land and to God they too will perish. One third of all Jews on earth died during the Holocaust and during the tribulation we are told that one third of all people on earth will die. It is a warning.

1Kings 8:46 “When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to their own lands, far away or near; 47 and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’; 48 and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name; 49 then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.

The Lord’s goal with the holocaust was to cause the Jews to repent. As a result God brought them back to their dwelling place. This is what this “mean time” is all about, reflect on your sins and repent, return to God. This is very specific, they pray toward the land, the city and the temple. God has not answered this prayer until they are given Jerusalem back and are able to rebuild the temple. The obvious question here is what was their sin that Pilate did this to them? But the Lord doesn’t tell us, and I think that is because Pilate is not Lord, we don’t need Pilate telling us what to repent of. Jesus is Lord and He just told us:

12:47 And that servant, who knew his lord’s will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

The Lord has told us His will. We are praying that His will would be done, and we are required to make ready. If we don’t make ready we will be beaten.

4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

Jesus is still teaching about prayer. “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive others that trespass against us”. The Jews trespassed against the Lord when they crucified Him. They suffered greatly because of this, the temple was destroyed and they were dispersed among the nations for 2,000 years ending in the holocaust. Hitler turned 6 million Jews into a peace offering. That suffering caused them to repent, God heard, and God forgave them. God forgives us as we forgive others. The US sinned when the twin towers fell killing thousands on 9/11. We attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 destroying it. The people who orchestrated 9/11 played you. Many were not buying the idea that Saddam Hussein was behind an attack carried out by Al Qaeda. Saddam was a secular ruler, Al Qaeda was a fundamentalist jihadist group. So they lied about weapons of mass destruction. On CNN, Condi Rice said that "there will always be some uncertainty" in determining if Iraq is obtaining a nuclear weapon but said, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." They knew they were lying, which is why they sent Colin Powell to the UN. So how stupid do we have to be? The very day of the 9/11 attack Dick Cheney is already telling Richard Clark, the chair of the counter terrorism group, to blame Iraq. When it becomes clear that Iraq was not behind this do they then focus on who was? No they fabricate a lie about WMD’s so that we would attack Iraq. We were played. That is why more than 3,000 architects and engineers in the US have signed a petition disputing the official report. Those that were responsible for writing up the report have refused to respond to the criticism. Unless we wake up and repent of this sin, fabricating reasons to go attack innocent bystanders to promote the agenda of an evil age we will all likewise perish. We need to repent for the kingdom of God. Prepare to meet thy God.

6 Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. 7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ 8 “‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.’”

What about me? I had nothing to do with Jesus crucifixion, I was against going to war with Iraq. There are many who have not hurt anyone, what about them? Are they bearing fruit? If you aren’t bearing fruit why should you use up the soil? You would be more valuable as fertilizer and wood for a fire. Once again, reflect and repent, prepare to meet your God. “I didn’t do anything” is not a persuasive argument when you appear before the Lord.

Proverbs 25: 11 A word fitly spoken Is like apples of gold in network of silver.

The reason many believers don't share their testimony is because it isn't perfect. They want their speaking to be like apples of gold in network of silver and it doesn't sound like that. They hear someone else's testimony and think it is "better". You are looking at this wrong. Your testimony is like one dish at a great feast. Perhaps it is an Hors d'oeuvre. This french word literally means "outside the work". It seems like your testimony doesn't even fit into the context of what is being shared.

But it is like cooking, you learn by doing. Wherever you start at you can only go up from there.

One suggestion -- keep it short.

Speak evil of no man

As people see things happening in our country, in our schools, in our cities that they don't like it is natural to want to lash out.

Titus 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

I would point out that calling sin, sin is what the Bible does. We are a light to the world, shining a light in this dark age. Our words are salt, killing the germs. For all these reasons we are not to speak evil of any man. Our agenda is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Yes, the topic at hand may be corruption in our government, election fraud, or the weaponization of the FBI. These are sins, we can call them out. But just like the expression, hate the sin, love the sinner. We are not here with a mission to condemn sinners, we are here to condemn sin and show the way of salvation.

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

If we are standing for the Lord we will be reviled, persecuted and they will say all manner of evil against us. That is an indication that we are blessed.

Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

They are treating us this way for "the Son of Man's sake". It is a great blessing, a badge of honor, like the crown that was laid up for the apostle Paul.

Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

But we should not be overcome by this. It is altogether a defeat if you imitate this evil speaking that they are doing.

1corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Don't be deceived, some think that evil communication is their "spiritual warfare". On the contrary it is like rust on the sword of the Spirit.

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Paul is clear, get rid of evil speakings.

1Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

No tit for tat. Just because someone else spoke evil of you does not give you the right to speak evil of them.

Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Your speaking reveals what is in your heart. Fill your heart with good treasure and your speech will bring forth fruit that is good.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

Testifying that the works are evil is not the same thing as speaking evil of a man. Hunter Biden's laptop is evil, the FBI hiding it was evil, but that is not the same thing as saying that a person is evil or "irredeemable" as Hillary said of people who support Trump.

1Timothy 6:3-4 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

These are wholesome words. Why would anyone not consent to them? Interesting that Paul combines proud with knowing nothing. Often those who know nothing are the most proud. Evil surmisings refers to those who speak in a way to make someone suspicious. Use innuendo without actually saying anything that could be considered libel or slander.

1Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Lay aside "all evil speakings". There are many ways you can have an evil speaking. Just as there are many different ways to lie, there are also many different ways to speak evil of someone.

1Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

The golden rule is not to treat others the way they treat you, but rather to treat others the way you want them to treat you.

1Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

This happens a lot on forums and social media. We are supposed to be those who are blessing others, not responding insult for insult and railing for railing. I have seen some news reports about what is happening at schools and it is outrageous and makes me angry. However, I was a teacher and know that it wasn't happening in my class or any classes that I observed. I also know that few kids actually read the books in the library. My point is not that there are not sinful, evil things that are happening that we need to deal with, my point is it isn't a broad brush. Over the last year they have scoured the internet and tik tok for these things and how many cases have they found? 20? Maybe more, but think how many teachers there are nationwide. Pray, bless, and don't render evil for evil.

1Peter 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

These are the people who speak evil of others, don't be like them.

1Peter 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

So now let's talk about Nancy Pelosi.

2Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

It is not spiritual, holy saints who are speaking evil of dignities, but rather those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness.

Jude 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

By the mouth of two or three witnesses let a thing be established.

Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

The people who are stirring up the believers and making their minds evil affected are not believers, they are unbelievers.

Titus 2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

If you are in the spiritual warfare they will try to condemn you. That is the point. They will take you out of context. If your speech is evil they will latch onto that. This is why we are to have sound speech which cannot be condemned.