Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

Questions about Christmas

It seems to me that Paul is very clear that although these festivals are a shadow of things to come we are not to be judged concerning them. Now all Christians are charged to watch, you even shared that if you don’t obey a direct command from the Lord that is sin, so surely if watching for the Lord meant that we needed to keep these festivals we could be judged. So although I find your teaching and Dr. Barry Awe’s teaching informative I think the NT is what we should be focused on.

Second, these festivals in the OT were part of the Covenant that God made with Israel. You have pointed out that the church is the Gentile bride (Leah) while Israel is (Rachel). My limited experience would tell me that you would never let a special day for one wife be the special day for the other wife. The idea that the rapture would be on one of these set feasts seems outrageous.

Third, you have recently focused on Noah and yes, that is NT. But to be “as the days of Noah” doesn’t mean we should look to be raptured on one of those days. I get the logic but the Lord said that you put new wine into new wine skins. You don’t put them into old wine skins. Now when you put the new wine into new wine skins it is just as the days when you put the old wine into the old wine skins. The process will be very similar and very instructive, but those days are old wineskins. We don’t want to share our special rapture day with Noah.

So then It seems to me that we should be focused on the New Testament holy days. The Lord only appointed one day for us, the Lord’s table and sure enough it is a rehearsal for the wedding day and the rapture. And yet if we look at Amos 5:21 God says “I hate, I despise your religious festivals”. Surely that cannot refer to the Lord’s table so what religious festival do the Christians have that God hates, that He despises? There are only two that stand out to me: Easter and Christmas. Now look at what Amos 8:9 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. 10 I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day. So then, we have a solar eclipse at the time of this religious festival that God hates and He will turn this festival into mourning (so that would indicate it is a joyous festival, not the passion of the Christ, that wouldn’t make sense). Also all your singing to weeping. What religious festival do Christians have that God hates, that God despises, where there is a lot of joyous singing? This sounds like Christmas to me.

Then you shared on Revelation 12 about how the man child being caught up to heaven can refer to both Jesus birth and the rapture of the first fruits. That got me thinking, if that can refer to both maybe the accounts of Jesus birth in the gospels can also refer to both. Which was stunning, because Matthew doesn’t really have an account of Jesus birth, only an account of the angel telling Joseph (Jews) that this is of God and to not be afraid to take Mary (the Christians). It also talks about Rachel weeping for her children, an atrocity that takes place a couple of years into the tribulation. Mark doesn’t have an account of the birth, and this gospel seems to be for Christians who are left behind. This gospel begins with John the Baptist who is Elijah who is to come telling them to repent. Sounds like the message to those left behind. It is only Luke that talks about Mary, and Elizabeth, and Zechariah, and Anna, and Simeon. These seem like those saints who are watching for the Lord’s return, they are faithful.

That in turn got me thinking, why do we celebrate the Lord’s birth at Christmas when all Christians know He wasn’t born then? I know the history of this holiday but my point is that Jesus is Lord, He is sovereign, this didn’t happen by mistake. What is the Lord telling us? If this was not His birthdate could it have been done as a rehearsal for the man child’s birth?

So then let’s consider this celebration which is very bizarre. On Christmas eve we celebrate the Mary and Joseph, we have a candlelight service, we have a manger scene, we talk about wise men seeing His star, we sing beautiful hymns like Hark the “Herald Angels Sing”. It is a worship and remembrance of the Lord.

The next day it is a pagan holiday with Santa (Satan) who came down in the middle of the night like a thief, pushing his lies as a mockery of Jesus and the rapture. How does he visit every house in one night? Sounds like the rapture in the twinkling of the eye. God is some guy you ask to give you gifts (you have to make that list and mail it to him), he has magical creatures called elves. This is designed so that when you realize it was all one big lie it will be harder to believe in Jesus, angels, and the rapture. The holiday is all about worship of material things. Now we know after the rapture the saints who are left behind will have been caught up in the things of the world and in the apostasy. What better way to rebuke them but to remind them for six weeks as they play Christmas carols and when the heat is turned off and there is no food. So then I suspect by Thanksgiving you will see famine, mourning, weeping, and bitterness.

If God is the same today and yesterday, and yesterday He was very precise in having festivals to rehearse for these major events like the crucifixion, why wouldn’t we have a festival to rehearse for the rapture and also one for the apostate church given to materialism to bring them to repentance.

The song of the raptured

Luke 1: 46 And Mary said,

My soul doth magnify the Lord,
47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
48 For he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaid:
For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things;
And holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is unto generations and generations
On them that fear him.
51 He hath showed strength with his arm;
He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
52 He hath put down princes from their thrones,
And hath exalted them of low degree.
53 The hungry he hath filled with good things;
And the rich he hath sent empty away.
54 He hath given help to Israel his servant,
That he might remember mercy
55 (As he spake unto our fathers)
Toward Abraham and his seed for ever.
56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned unto her house.

imagine any raptured person at the end of this age. This is the song, this is the testimony.

3 dreams that saw the rapture with a reference to this month of Elul

Luke 18:1-8 -- Becoming men of faith who don't faint

1 And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;

When you look at these historical figures like Paul, or Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela that is what stands out. They didn’t faint. Their faith and perseverance is a glorious testimony. It isn’t just the destination that is important but the journey. This journey is how God refines and purifies his people. This is how we become a people of faith.

2 saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, and regarded not man:

It doesn’t say the name of the city, I wonder if He was referring to Belarus? Maybe Hong Kong? Beirut? Portland? Kenosha? This is what people are protesting, judges who don’t fear God and don’t regard man. Perhaps He was talking about Washington DC.

3 and there was a widow in that city;

This should be the face of the protestors, not a teenager with a mask. A widow, a woman who has been bereaved. She isn’t going to terrify people in a restaurant, she isn’t going to torch some business. This is a powerful face that unrighteous judges fear. You can meet a group of teenagers with masks with cops in riot gear and tear gas. But do that to a widow coming to ask you to do your job and the optics are terrible. There is no way to win that battle. It is like two big old cops arresting Rosa Parks for sitting on a bus. The unrighteous judge can not win that fight. This woman might have lost her husband in a war over phony WMD’s, maybe she lost her house in the mortgage meltdown. Maybe her child was killed due to gang violence in the inner city. Who was the first woman that was convicted of a crime for Jan 6th, a grandmother who confessed to trespassing in the nation's capital.

and she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

That is his job! She isn’t calling for him to be fired. She isn’t calling to defund the judiciary. She is just asking him to “do your job”. Many are now mocking the NBA telling them to “just do your job”. Flip the script, go to these responsible to deliver justice and tell them “just do your job”. Also, come often. Why did Washington DC set up barbed wire and 25,000 troops. Was that to keep this widow from coming to them? We had a major case concerning abortion coming before the Supreme court. This was an unrighteous judgement. Sonya Sotameyer said she was concerned that overthrowing this case would cause the stench of the Supreme court to damage their credibility. She admitted she is an unrighteous judge. Justice is supposed to be blind. The Supreme court is given lifetime appointments so they don't need to be concerned with politics. Playing politics is how this abominable decision was made in the first place.

4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5 yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

This is a marathon, it isn’t a sprint. This battle has been going on for 2,000 years. We have gotten rid of Caesars whose idea of a fire sale was to burn down the city and keep the fire department from helping put out the fire. They fed their enemies to lions or simply impaled them on stakes and listened to their moans as they died. For centuries kings could throw people in jail without even admitting they were there. We got “habeas corpus” passed so that if you want to do that you must make it public. We got rid of slavery, got rid of apartheid, got rid of Jim Crow, and passed a whole list of laws. And we overthrew the unrighteous judgement concerning abortion. This was because of persistent prayer, faith, and perseverance.

6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unrighteous judge saith. 7 And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them? 8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

The unrighteous judge is the “universal weight machine” where you can build your faith. We know we need to go to the gym three times a week just to keep healthy, well spiritually we need the unrighteous judge to build a healthy life of faith. Also, please note, when the Lord comes this situation will be taking place and He is asking, will I find the Bride of Christ, who lost their husband due to injustice and a monkey trial, appealing for justice? Will she be coming oft? Will she be praying and not fainting?

What signs should we be watching for?

1. Cults -- Jim Jones, David Koresh, Manson, Mormons, 7th Day Adventists, Moonies, etc.

Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Mormonism -- 1830, Jehovah Witness -- 1870, Unification church May 1, 1954, Heaven's Gate -- 1974, Jim Jones -- 1976, Aum Shinrykyo -- 1984, David Koresh 1993


6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

We have had two world wars. WWI led to the Balfour Declaration that Israel belongs to the Jews, and WWII led to 1948 and Israel being given back to the Jews. WWII clearly prefigures the tribulation like a dress rehearsal. You had an antichrist figure, the mark of the beast, a holocaust, Nuremberg trials where Haman's ten sons are hanged. We have had quite a few genocides in last hundred years, and the Spanish Flu was a worldwide pandemic, again a dress rehearsal for Covid19. But at that time you knew the end was not yet because Israel had not been given back to the Jews. Read the major Christian teachings prior to 1948, almost everyone taught that the Jews returning to Israel was allegorical and not literal.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Those things that we have seen: Spanish Flu, WWI, WWII, they were the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

This is strange, it seems He is referring to the apostles all being martyred at the beginning of the age, and yet it seems it is also describing the tribulation. Many argue that "pattern is prophecy". What we saw with the apostles in the book of Acts will be repeated at the end of the age.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Again, this is what we saw in Acts but it will be completed during the tribulation. Right now with the internet we can really reach the ends of the Earth. The Gideon's have translated the New Testament into 1800 translations and distribute them in over 200 countries. In the last 100 years they have handed out over 2 billion New Testaments. Not only so but the Bible is available free online translated into over 1800 languages (Gideon website). However, after the rapture you will see an age of miracles and the greatest revival of the church in two thousand years. So then this is a major sign.

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand

The abomination of desolation is the dome of the rock, it was built the exact number of years that Daniel prophesied it would be. Daniel also said blessed are those that come to the 1335 year, and it is exactly 1335 years since the dome of the rock was built.

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

The Great tribulation refers to the last 3 1/2 years of the tribulation. At that time all of the Christians will have been removed and the enemies full focus will be on Israel and Jerusalem. Daniel told them the AntiChrist would confirm a covenant with them that he would then break in the middle of the tribulation. It is understood that the AntiChrist will allow the Jews to rebuild the temple because at this point he will be able to stand in the holy place just like Antiochus did at the time of Hanukah.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before.

We will see fallen angels, the Nephelim and they will do all kinds of signs and wonders during the tribulation.


So these are some of the signs we are to look for. Some have been fulfilled, some are yet to be fulfilled. The dome of the Rock was built, we have come to the year 1335 since that was built, we have had world wars, we have seen Israel given back to the Jews, we have seen Jerusalem given back to the Jews, and we have the Abraham accords. Daniel doesn't say that the Antichrist makes the covenant, he says the Antichrist confirms the covenant. The Abraham accords are a covenant for Israel to have full control of Jerusalem and to rebuild their temple. We are also seeing the fulfillment of the word for the gospel to be preached throughout the whole world. This is like a two stage rocked. At this point the first stage is all but completed, and when the rapture takes place we will see the second stage of this gospel going forth.

Jesus said it would be as the days of Noah.

1. The first day of Noah in Genesis is not his birthday but rather the day he got the vision that a worldwide flood would hit the earth and he also got the plans for the ark. We don't know how old he was when he got this but we do know he had three sons at the time. If you assume the youngest was 13 (this way he could have a four man crew) then he might have been around 33. We know he was 600 when the flood hit so go back 567 years from this year and that was the year we had the Gutenberg Bible (We have a letter from the Pope saying he had seen some pages of it in 1455).

2. We also know that Noah preached the gospel for 120 years before the flood. Go back to 1899 and that is when the Gideon ministry was first founded to distribute bibles around the world.

3. Then one week before the flood Noah enters the ark with his family, seven others, indicating Christ and the Church. At that time God shuts the door. In 2020 we had a worldwide pandemic and for the first time in human history God shut the door on businesses and churches around the world. That is 120 years after the Gideons were distributing 2 billion bibles worldwide.

Joel tells us we will see a worldwide pandemic that will eat up the entire economy in that year and that it will be a global sabbath rest proclaimed by God for people to fast and pray and that it will be a major sign that the Day of the Lord is at hand.

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9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

There is a counterfeit gospel which has also spread across the globe and the technological revolution with the radio, TV, and internet.

First the gospel is materialism. This swept the world after WWII led by the US as the chief consumer nation. But then they bring in the fact that consumerism is bad (this is simply phase two from the same people who brought you the gospel of materialism). This is their version of sinners. Everyone is guilted for consuming. These dual concepts of climate change and overpopulation both originated around 1900 with Malthus and Arrhenius.

So then you appeal to "good hearted people" who will set up recycling and push for "sustainable development" and yet they undermine this. After everyone has sorted all their trash into separate little bags each week and put them out according to all the rules they still just dump them in the dump and only a small portion are recycled. Notice how the biggest evangelists of this "green revolution" are all flying around on private jets and are the biggest polluters by a very far margin. They don't want to solve any problems, instead the goal is to guilt people and have them become frustrated with each other as though someone else failing to put their recyclables in the trash properly is the reason we are all going to die. That was the point of the masks. Who should you persecute and hate? Those people who won't wear the masks.

This now leads to stage three of the plan, divide and conquer. Preach hate, polarize everyone. Blacks, whites, Chinese, Native American, etc. Bizarrely this is part of their gospel of one world religion of peace and love. You see if you don't buy into this phony narrative then you are trying to kill people and therefore it is OK to hate, persecute and ultimately kill you. And who will not buy into this? Of course, it will be the Evangelical Christians and the Orthodox Jews.

The next step in this gospel is a version of communism like we saw in Acts. You will own nothing and be happy. Think of the elites as Feudal Lords and they are all running their little fiefdom, whether it be google campus, or Facebook campus, or whatever else campus they have. You live on the company campus and you work for the company and they provide you with all your basic necessities. The Lord's of these fiefdoms are rich, powerful and fly the world. The worker bees in this fiefdom will be taken care of as long as they are "essential workers". However, once you become "an extra person" or "an unnecessary person" or a "useless eater" they will get rid of you. They envision dropping world population down to 500 million from 8 billion. So 7.5 billion will have to go. First you create a basic annual income for people without a job, everyone on that list is a useless eater that you can get rid of. Think of it as their version of Schindler's list.

Do not be deceived, Do not be led astray

There are very distinct differences between those who are watching for the Lord's return and those that lead astray.

2Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

False teachers have secret teachings that only those in the inner circle know. Peter says they "privately bring in damnable heresies". So they are like FreeMasons or secret societies. Publicly their teachings are not "damnable heresies", but once you learn the secret teachings they are damnable heresies. Any teaching can be classified as a "heresy" or school of thought. What makes a teaching damnable is if it causes the Body of Christ to be divided or if it in some way contradicts the items of the faith. Obviously any teaching on the internet that is available to all will not be "private" or "secret". But don't think this only applies to some horrible cult. Many of these large mega churches have "secret teachings". For example, once the FreeMasons or Jesuits infect a church with their cash they will require that they not speak about the rapture. That is a private teaching and it is damnable because the Lord commanded us to watch for His return.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Pernicious means to have a harmful effect in a gradual or subtle way. The greek definition is much stronger than "harmful" it means destruction which consists of eternal misery in hell. It can also mean perishing and ruin. So when you see the gradual decline of main stream Christianity what you are seeing is the result of following "their pernicious ways". Jim Jones was not gradual destruction. Some woman on the internet claiming to be the Messiah is not a secret teaching. These are so blatantly obvious as to only apply to the lost.

3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Feigned words means fabricated stories. The best example of this that I know of is Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. Witness Lee would claim that he was the closest coworker of Watchman Nee (a credible claim). He then explains that Watchman Nee was excommunicated by the elders in the church because they saw him in a house with a woman but that the woman was his mother. That is a fabricated story. Everyone who sat under Witness Lee's ministry heard that story many times and yet when you search his written work you can't find it. This was the "secret" story because it was patently false, and actually absurd. It was a fabricated story that was essential to Witness Lee to claim that Watchman Nee was the "apostle of the age" (again a story that all heard him say but was not so easy to find in print) and that the vision and ministry that Nee had was passed to Witness Lee. If he told the truth that Watchman Nee was excommunicated because he was involved in fornication and adultery it would ruin his entire fabricated story. But there was a point to this story, he had "the vision of the age" hence you should not listen to anyone else but him. Every church they raised up became a franchise for his ministry where they sold his books exclusively. Every church had a standing order whether they sold them or not, in this way they "made merchandise of them".

The watchmen we are seeing concerning the Lord's coming are nothing like this.

1. Everything they are speaking is in the open and public. No secret teachings for the inner circle or those who pay.

2. We are not seeing the gradual destruction of them on the contrary the voices speaking and warning of the soon return of the Lord are growing exponentially.

3. There is no fabricated story for why this speaker or that speaker "has the vision of the ages".

4. They are not making merchandise of you. There are quite a few out there that have not monetized their ministry at all. There are others who do sell books but there is nothing that suggests exclusivity. The Bible says you shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn, so this one point is not sufficient to be labeled a "false prophet". They aren't selling flowers at the airport, etc.

5. No one is leading anyone astray. They aren't setting up "watchmen churches", they aren't heading to Guyana.

why are so many churches seeing a gradual decline with all the young people leaving?

We need to realize that the Jesuits and the FreeMasons have strategically tried to infiltrate Protestant and Evangelical churches. They have money, they get on the board, and they don't tell the pastor what to teach, instead they tell them what not to preach on. The rapture is like the third rail, can't talk about that at all. Why? Because a few looney tunes are out there? So Satan can get some looney to say something and then as a result no Christians can teach on a topic that is everywhere in the Bible? That is absurd. We can teach on any verse in the Bible and Satan is not going to tell me what I can and cannot speak on. As a result as people see all kinds of things happening in the world around them they discover that the church is useless at giving any light on the situation. These churches have this phony baloney spirituality as though talking about the events taking place is not "spiritual". So of course, people leave, there is no point in staying.

Second, they don't want pastors to speak about sin. They view sin as a topic that turns members away. The pastor's job in these churches is to focus on appealing to the masses. So then, you quickly replace the real believers with people who are interested in a show. A big musical production with a little Bible sprinkled in so that I can say I go to church and am saved. Meanwhile everyone is spectator.

The "antichrist" does not mean a person who is outwardly "against Christ" but rather a counterfeit Christ. Cult leaders would count, anyone claiming to be the "Messiah" would count, anyone claiming to be a mediator between God and Man would count, anyone claiming to be "the apostle" would count. All of these count as denying that Jesus is the Christ and denying the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the trinity.

The antichrist is a liar so just because someone says all the right things about Jesus does not mean they don't deny the Lord who bought them. Our standing in the church and before Jesus and before God the Father is based solely on the work Jesus did on the cross. If you need that plus something then they are denying the Lord who bought them. So requiring someone to be subject to the Pope or any other leader to be considered a "member" of the church is to deny the Lord who bought them. Instead you should require that they be subject to the Lord, the incarnated word of God.

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

Interesting event took place on 2nd Month 17th day of the month in 1908.

Jesus said that the end of the age would be as the days of Noah. This was the day the flood began, 2 month, 17th day of the month.

November 9th, 1908 could be either the 16th or 17th day of the month. However, the rule is that you have to see the New Moon in Jerusalem and then report it to the Sandhedrin. Since no one did that in 1908 the first day of the month is the next day. Therefore Nov. 9th, 1908 was the 17th day of the second month.

The Bible also says that Noah was a preacher or righteousness and we know he preached for 120 years. So 120 years after this date would be the 17th day of the 2nd month in 2028. Will that be the day the flood comes?

Jeremiah 17:5-8 Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

The American Secular and Free thought Federation dedicated themselves to the separation of church and state (they wanted to end the tax exempt status of churches, prohibit bibles in schools, and prohibit all public prayer). They complained about Gideon Bibles in hotels in 1910 saying that Bibles "disgrace the rooms of the hotels" and were placed there by "a band of men calling themselves Gideons and basing their name on a ridiculous and unnatural story found in this book of Hebrew mythology." (page 46, Witness to History). At the time there were less than 3,000 Gideon's worldwide and they had placed about 5,000 Bibles in total at this point in history. 112 years later they have distributed over 2 billion Bibles in 200 countries. As for the American Secular and Free thought Federation they withered up 9 years later in 2019 (9 is the number for judgement in the Bible).

More on the birth of Jesus, part 6

57 When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.
59 On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, 60 but his mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.”
61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.”
62 Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.” 64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God. 65 All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things. 66 Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s hand was with him.

Yes, there is an apostasy going on and yes there is compromise with sin, there is false doctrine, there is an ecumenical movement that denies the Lord's redemption and that Jesus is the only way, but at the same time there are these believers who in the midst of this are experiencing the Lord's move in their midst.

Zechariah’s Song
67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:
68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
because he has come to his people and redeemed them.
69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David
70 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),
71 salvation from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us—
72 to show mercy to our ancestors
and to remember his holy covenant,
73 the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
and to enable us to serve him without fear
75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

This word is in direct contrast to the apostasy. Go to these council meetings involved in the Ecumenical movement and read this to them.

76 And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
77 to give his people the knowledge of salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins,
78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
79 to shine on those living in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.

John the Baptist had this mission from birth, to give God's people the knowledge of salvation. What happened? They had been led astray. The religious leaders and the political leaders were all together working to run the country, they had completely been compromised by the Romans and it was not in their interest to see that the Messiah had come. We call that the deep state. The problem with the deep state is that it only takes one John the Baptist to overcome 1,000 in the deep state.

The Preamble to the Gideon Bible in 1924

The Bible contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you. It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword, and the Christian's charter. Here, too, Heaven is opened, and the gates of Hell disclosed. Christ is its grand subject, out good its design, and the glory of God its end. It should fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet. Read it slowly, frequently, and prayerfully. It is a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory, and a river of pleasure. It is given to you in life, will be opened at the judgement, and be remembered forever. It involves the highest responsibility, rewards the greatest labor, and will condemn all who trifle with its sacred contents.

Very Logical

1. We know we are going to get a new digital currency in December.

However,

2. You can't get a new global currency without a new global government

And

3. If you have a new global government you will have a new global leader which the Bible refers to as the Antichrist.

And

4. The Antichrist comes into power when he confirms the Abraham accords and the tribulation begins.

Now most would agree that this will take place on Feast of Trumpets and begin the 70th week from Daniel.