Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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Hebrews 7:5-28 The hope is that we would become men like Elijah, men who God hears their prayers
5 Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham.6 This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 7 And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the greater. 8 In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living. 9 One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, 10 because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.
This is talking about the church. We, for the most part, don’t trace our lineage to Levi. We are sons of Abraham because we believe. We are members of the household of faith because of our faith, not our flesh. On the one hand Jesus is a Jew and of the household of Judah. He is a son of Abraham, son of David. But on the other hand He is the Lord of glory, the eternal one without beginning or end.
11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also. 13 He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. 15 And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is declared: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”
“If perfection could have been attained”. This is what the book of James refers to, how to do a perfect work. When Hebrews tells us to move on from the elemental teachings it is telling us to move on from all the regulations found in the priesthood of the Levitical priests to the priesthood of Melchizedek. Keeping the regulations of the levitical priesthood can never make you perfect, only the resurrection life can do that.
18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
What is the hope in the book of James? The hope is that we would become men like Elijah, men that God hears their prayers and answers their prayers. Men who can overthrow the wicked Jezebel by their prayers. Think about Karl Marx and the communist manifesto. A basic theme in this theory is that you have an oppressive ruling class and a working class that is being oppressed. Let's assume he was right, what is he going to do about it? All of these ones who complain about being oppressed and the leaders being corrupt, what are they going to do about it? No one has a solution. Recently one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement bought a 1.4 million dollar home in an an all white neighborhood (99% white). The communist rulers in China and Russia are just as corrupt as the Czar or KMT were. Being poor is not proof that you are not corrupt and being rich is not proof that you are. Communism has not made anything perfect, neither has democracy. They are both weak and useless at dealing with the corruption on display in Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, 21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
This matter of the oath is an essential theme to the first rapture. Elizabeth, who gave birth to John, refers to our oath with God. Hanukkah is the feast of rededication, it refers to us renewing our vows to God. The story of Esther which is referenced in the book of Zechariah is also a reference to our oath with God. This story of Abraham refers to his living and walking according to his solemn oath with God. This is a two way street, those who are raptured in this first rapture have a solemn oath with God that they keep and in return He also keeps His oath with them. Joe Biden took an oath to protect and defend the constitution, two months later he is saying that the amendments in the constitution are not "absolute" and he is issuing executive orders that infringe on those rights. People who are corrupt will violate their oath.
22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant. 23 Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; 24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God Through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
What is a priest’s function? When people need help that only God can provide they can go to the priest who will intercede for them. Our election was stolen and the US has been taken over by thieves. We need help. We have appealed to the law courts and the legislators and they have shirked their responsibility. We need the Lord. He made an oath to save us completely.
26 Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
5 Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham.6 This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 7 And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the greater. 8 In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living. 9 One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, 10 because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.
This is talking about the church. We, for the most part, don’t trace our lineage to Levi. We are sons of Abraham because we believe. We are members of the household of faith because of our faith, not our flesh. On the one hand Jesus is a Jew and of the household of Judah. He is a son of Abraham, son of David. But on the other hand He is the Lord of glory, the eternal one without beginning or end.
11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also. 13 He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. 15 And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is declared: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”
“If perfection could have been attained”. This is what the book of James refers to, how to do a perfect work. When Hebrews tells us to move on from the elemental teachings it is telling us to move on from all the regulations found in the priesthood of the Levitical priests to the priesthood of Melchizedek. Keeping the regulations of the levitical priesthood can never make you perfect, only the resurrection life can do that.
18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
What is the hope in the book of James? The hope is that we would become men like Elijah, men that God hears their prayers and answers their prayers. Men who can overthrow the wicked Jezebel by their prayers. Think about Karl Marx and the communist manifesto. A basic theme in this theory is that you have an oppressive ruling class and a working class that is being oppressed. Let's assume he was right, what is he going to do about it? All of these ones who complain about being oppressed and the leaders being corrupt, what are they going to do about it? No one has a solution. Recently one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement bought a 1.4 million dollar home in an an all white neighborhood (99% white). The communist rulers in China and Russia are just as corrupt as the Czar or KMT were. Being poor is not proof that you are not corrupt and being rich is not proof that you are. Communism has not made anything perfect, neither has democracy. They are both weak and useless at dealing with the corruption on display in Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, 21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
This matter of the oath is an essential theme to the first rapture. Elizabeth, who gave birth to John, refers to our oath with God. Hanukkah is the feast of rededication, it refers to us renewing our vows to God. The story of Esther which is referenced in the book of Zechariah is also a reference to our oath with God. This story of Abraham refers to his living and walking according to his solemn oath with God. This is a two way street, those who are raptured in this first rapture have a solemn oath with God that they keep and in return He also keeps His oath with them. Joe Biden took an oath to protect and defend the constitution, two months later he is saying that the amendments in the constitution are not "absolute" and he is issuing executive orders that infringe on those rights. People who are corrupt will violate their oath.
22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant. 23 Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; 24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God Through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
What is a priest’s function? When people need help that only God can provide they can go to the priest who will intercede for them. Our election was stolen and the US has been taken over by thieves. We need help. We have appealed to the law courts and the legislators and they have shirked their responsibility. We need the Lord. He made an oath to save us completely.
26 Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
Psalm 120:2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
I realize that not everyone fully appreciates that they have been lying to us about the pandemic.
When the pandemic first hit it was reasonable to call for a shutdown for two weeks to "flatten the curve". Not nationwide but in places where the hospital was overwhelmed. But when they did that I felt I needed to really pay attention to what is going on because I am a science teacher and I wanted to be able to explain to the kids what is going on. Also I lived in NYC which was the first place to be shutting down.
They taught us to practice social distancing, that made sense, you can reduce the viral load that you get exposed to when you get exposed. However, 3 feet would have been sufficient. Sneeze guards made sense, masks didn't. Taking the temperature outside a business would have been the best thing, shutting down for everyone did not make sense.
But they kept the lockdown going and never did they talk about the cost of this, only the benefit. This was crushing business, crushing schools, hurting kids and I have always been taught to do a "cost benefit analysis". So I was looking for them to walk us through the cost benefit analysis but they never did. For example, unless you had comorbities which some older teachers had, there was no reason to shut the schools. Take everyone's temperature at the door, that would be sufficient.
Instead Cuomo was held up as the gold standard of how to deal with this and Desantis was vilified. I paid attention to that and was looking for the "superspreader" events to lead to catastrophe but they never did. Instead Florida which didn't shut down and had big rallies did much better than NY. I paid attention to that.
I was looking for the data to show the kids and realized that kids are not getting sick and outdoor events were not bad. It also showed that the lockdown in NYC was not beneficial in the full analysis.
So at this point I had a bunch of issues. They said 2 weeks and it was turning into a year. They said Cuomo was the gold standard and yet the data said he was the worst. They said Desantis was the worst and the data said he was the best.
Then they shut down churches but kept Las Vegas and Atlantic City open. That seemed idiotic to me, a transparent lie.
If masks work why aren't they working?
If shutdowns work why aren't they working?
If the vaccine works why isn't the vaccine working?
Then they compared the mandate of this vaccine with the mandates of other vaccines like Polio or Measles. But that was a total lie. Polio and Measles vaccines took 50 years before we had a safe and effective vaccine. For 50 years we were told the various attempts were safe and effective only for the data to prove they weren't. I felt this was just a way to lie to those who were uninformed. You need 12 years of data to know if a vaccine is safe and effective.
Fauci at this point was being peppered with questions and he responded that "to question him was to question science". That was when I became clear he was a liar. I teach science and the history of science has always been all kinds of questions and debates back and forth.
That is when I learned that he had funded bioweapons research at the Wuhan lab with Coronavirus. Whether or not he had worked on Covid19 he should have immediately told the president this and contacted all his people in Wuhan to find out what they knew. Instead he deceitfully tried to steer all attention away from the Wuhan lab.
I then learned that the Democrats, the ones responsible for slavery, the Civil war and Jim Crow that they were saying because of all the terrible things done to blacks in the past they wanted blacks to go to the head of the line to get the shot. These are deceitful liars, there is no fruit of righteousness, no evidence of repentance, no way anyone should trust them.
I also learned that Africa had one of the lowest vaccination rates, around 2% and they had seen the pandemic virtually extinguished.
I also learned from an insurance company CEO that actuarial data shows a 40% increase in deaths among 18-64 year olds who are working. A 10% increase would be 3 standard deviations. A 40% increase is unprecedented and indicates the most horrific event imaginable and this could not be attributed to Covid because he was comparing the 3rd quarter of 2021 with all of 2020 when we had a pandemic.
I have also seen the documentary "Died Suddenly" with the video evidence of what they are pulling out of people who have been vaccinated.
All this begs the question why? Why would countries intentionally force their citizens to take a vaccine that is killing them? What I suspect is that most were simply "useful idiots". Still someone had to be behind this, why would they want to kill all these people. First of all I have seen that with robotics, AI and smart computers they can replace 80% of all jobs very rapidly. The machines can do the jobs with a much better return on investment. So what are you going to do with 80% of the world's population when they are unemployed? And, it gets worse than that. Once those 80% are dead, you can get rid of 80% who are left. Sure enough the vaccine has been shown to sterilize both men and women, and it is shown to damage your immune system giving you Immune deficiency which is why we are about to get hit with many more pandemics. The white horse of the apocalypse refers to these deceitful liars, the red horse of war has already begun to ride as well with the situation in Ukraine getting worse until it goes nuclear, and we are seeing food shortages that refers to the black horse of famine riding and the pale green horse of the plague is also riding. We are witnessing the beginning of the end with the four horsemen of the apocalypse off and running.
I realize that not everyone fully appreciates that they have been lying to us about the pandemic.
When the pandemic first hit it was reasonable to call for a shutdown for two weeks to "flatten the curve". Not nationwide but in places where the hospital was overwhelmed. But when they did that I felt I needed to really pay attention to what is going on because I am a science teacher and I wanted to be able to explain to the kids what is going on. Also I lived in NYC which was the first place to be shutting down.
They taught us to practice social distancing, that made sense, you can reduce the viral load that you get exposed to when you get exposed. However, 3 feet would have been sufficient. Sneeze guards made sense, masks didn't. Taking the temperature outside a business would have been the best thing, shutting down for everyone did not make sense.
But they kept the lockdown going and never did they talk about the cost of this, only the benefit. This was crushing business, crushing schools, hurting kids and I have always been taught to do a "cost benefit analysis". So I was looking for them to walk us through the cost benefit analysis but they never did. For example, unless you had comorbities which some older teachers had, there was no reason to shut the schools. Take everyone's temperature at the door, that would be sufficient.
Instead Cuomo was held up as the gold standard of how to deal with this and Desantis was vilified. I paid attention to that and was looking for the "superspreader" events to lead to catastrophe but they never did. Instead Florida which didn't shut down and had big rallies did much better than NY. I paid attention to that.
I was looking for the data to show the kids and realized that kids are not getting sick and outdoor events were not bad. It also showed that the lockdown in NYC was not beneficial in the full analysis.
So at this point I had a bunch of issues. They said 2 weeks and it was turning into a year. They said Cuomo was the gold standard and yet the data said he was the worst. They said Desantis was the worst and the data said he was the best.
Then they shut down churches but kept Las Vegas and Atlantic City open. That seemed idiotic to me, a transparent lie.
If masks work why aren't they working?
If shutdowns work why aren't they working?
If the vaccine works why isn't the vaccine working?
Then they compared the mandate of this vaccine with the mandates of other vaccines like Polio or Measles. But that was a total lie. Polio and Measles vaccines took 50 years before we had a safe and effective vaccine. For 50 years we were told the various attempts were safe and effective only for the data to prove they weren't. I felt this was just a way to lie to those who were uninformed. You need 12 years of data to know if a vaccine is safe and effective.
Fauci at this point was being peppered with questions and he responded that "to question him was to question science". That was when I became clear he was a liar. I teach science and the history of science has always been all kinds of questions and debates back and forth.
That is when I learned that he had funded bioweapons research at the Wuhan lab with Coronavirus. Whether or not he had worked on Covid19 he should have immediately told the president this and contacted all his people in Wuhan to find out what they knew. Instead he deceitfully tried to steer all attention away from the Wuhan lab.
I then learned that the Democrats, the ones responsible for slavery, the Civil war and Jim Crow that they were saying because of all the terrible things done to blacks in the past they wanted blacks to go to the head of the line to get the shot. These are deceitful liars, there is no fruit of righteousness, no evidence of repentance, no way anyone should trust them.
I also learned that Africa had one of the lowest vaccination rates, around 2% and they had seen the pandemic virtually extinguished.
I also learned from an insurance company CEO that actuarial data shows a 40% increase in deaths among 18-64 year olds who are working. A 10% increase would be 3 standard deviations. A 40% increase is unprecedented and indicates the most horrific event imaginable and this could not be attributed to Covid because he was comparing the 3rd quarter of 2021 with all of 2020 when we had a pandemic.
I have also seen the documentary "Died Suddenly" with the video evidence of what they are pulling out of people who have been vaccinated.
All this begs the question why? Why would countries intentionally force their citizens to take a vaccine that is killing them? What I suspect is that most were simply "useful idiots". Still someone had to be behind this, why would they want to kill all these people. First of all I have seen that with robotics, AI and smart computers they can replace 80% of all jobs very rapidly. The machines can do the jobs with a much better return on investment. So what are you going to do with 80% of the world's population when they are unemployed? And, it gets worse than that. Once those 80% are dead, you can get rid of 80% who are left. Sure enough the vaccine has been shown to sterilize both men and women, and it is shown to damage your immune system giving you Immune deficiency which is why we are about to get hit with many more pandemics. The white horse of the apocalypse refers to these deceitful liars, the red horse of war has already begun to ride as well with the situation in Ukraine getting worse until it goes nuclear, and we are seeing food shortages that refers to the black horse of famine riding and the pale green horse of the plague is also riding. We are witnessing the beginning of the end with the four horsemen of the apocalypse off and running.
Proverbs 29:20-23 Pride brings a person low
20 Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
Foot in mouth disease. Biden makes a campaign ad about Kyle Rittenhouse being a militia man. CNN accuses some kids of being insulting to a native American and wind up losing a massive lawsuit. Lebron James blames the police for shooting Jacob Blake. Before spouting off find out what actually happened. Paul Pelosi is attacked in his home and they blame it on MAGA, only the man's ex girlfriend and son both say it is more likely he was a sex slave than MAGA.
21 A servant pampered from youth will turn out to be insolent.
It is amazing how insolent the kids are that grow up in the public school system. Everyone is so pampered. You cannot imagine the arm twisting that goes on to make sure no kid gets a failing grade. There are kids who commit felonies and the pressure that is put on the administration and the victims to downgrade to a misdemeanor. Kids cursing out teachers is nothing these days. Meanwhile they are being taught that their failures are all due to systemic racism. It is a toxic mix of pampering and supporting self justification.
22 An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.
Antifa is an angry person that is stirring up conflict. They are hot tempered. I heard that 93% of the BLM protests were peaceful. However, when you did the numbers based on all the BLM protests 7% came to something like 500 violent protests in less than a year! Looting, fires, murder, all committed during these riots.
23 Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
That is the root of the problem. Lebron James is proud, thinks he can pass judgment on anyone, same with CNN and Biden. That pride will bring them low. Kids in the public school, failing all their exams, yet being pushed through the system, becoming insolent and untrainable. They are proud, full of self justification, but they will be brought low when they discover no employer wants them. My wife worked in the prison system, she refused to get the vaccine and so resigned. She was responsible to do all kinds of shift reports that her colleagues avoided doing. But once she and a few others left they had no choice and were soon fired for falsifying reports. We have since heard that those quality people who didn’t resign are now in the process of leaving because the whole situation is like a house of cards collapsing. I read that 30% of NYC cops are leaving and 50% of NYC teachers are considering leaving. The vaccine mandates were like a game of Jenga where they pulled out a few of the pegs holding up the entire structure. The same people who talked a big game and promised the moon have been discovered to be just as incompetent as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
20 Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
Foot in mouth disease. Biden makes a campaign ad about Kyle Rittenhouse being a militia man. CNN accuses some kids of being insulting to a native American and wind up losing a massive lawsuit. Lebron James blames the police for shooting Jacob Blake. Before spouting off find out what actually happened. Paul Pelosi is attacked in his home and they blame it on MAGA, only the man's ex girlfriend and son both say it is more likely he was a sex slave than MAGA.
21 A servant pampered from youth will turn out to be insolent.
It is amazing how insolent the kids are that grow up in the public school system. Everyone is so pampered. You cannot imagine the arm twisting that goes on to make sure no kid gets a failing grade. There are kids who commit felonies and the pressure that is put on the administration and the victims to downgrade to a misdemeanor. Kids cursing out teachers is nothing these days. Meanwhile they are being taught that their failures are all due to systemic racism. It is a toxic mix of pampering and supporting self justification.
22 An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.
Antifa is an angry person that is stirring up conflict. They are hot tempered. I heard that 93% of the BLM protests were peaceful. However, when you did the numbers based on all the BLM protests 7% came to something like 500 violent protests in less than a year! Looting, fires, murder, all committed during these riots.
23 Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
That is the root of the problem. Lebron James is proud, thinks he can pass judgment on anyone, same with CNN and Biden. That pride will bring them low. Kids in the public school, failing all their exams, yet being pushed through the system, becoming insolent and untrainable. They are proud, full of self justification, but they will be brought low when they discover no employer wants them. My wife worked in the prison system, she refused to get the vaccine and so resigned. She was responsible to do all kinds of shift reports that her colleagues avoided doing. But once she and a few others left they had no choice and were soon fired for falsifying reports. We have since heard that those quality people who didn’t resign are now in the process of leaving because the whole situation is like a house of cards collapsing. I read that 30% of NYC cops are leaving and 50% of NYC teachers are considering leaving. The vaccine mandates were like a game of Jenga where they pulled out a few of the pegs holding up the entire structure. The same people who talked a big game and promised the moon have been discovered to be just as incompetent as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Proverbs 29:24-27 Separating the wheat from the tares
24 The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies; they are put under oath and dare not testify.
This is where the real keystone cops are. After the 2020 election Time magazine ran a cover story trying to claim credit for stealing the election. Then there were Antifa that wanted to post on social media to claim credit for January 6th. Think about it, some punk kid could be involved in major historical events of epic consequences and he can’t say anything or else he will be confessing to treason, sedition, and other serious felonies. But if he says nothing everyone thinks he is a loser who can’t do anything. People’s ego is a major problem. Sure you got paid and they specifically paid you to keep your mouth shut and yet you learn what is the point if I am despised as a total loser?
25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
This is where the true leaders emerge because they aren’t afraid of man. Margorie Taylor Green is an excellent example of that, a junior member of congress, Pelosi stripped her of all committees, and yet she has emerged as a major leader in the Republican party simply because she, unlike most other Republicans, is not afraid of man.
26 Many seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one gets justice.
Yes, we have all learned that we need to pray. I appreciate those who are joining precincts or going to school board meetings, or speaking the truth, or battling election fraud in the courts. All of that is great, but praying for justice has become clearly the only way we will get justice.
27 The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright.
There you have it, this is why the country is polarized. The wicked detest the upright, this is why Hillary Clinton called them the “deplorables and irredeemable”. She is wicked and she detests the upright. On the other hand the righteous detest the dishonest. We see videos of them stuffing ballots, or pulling the ballots out of hiding, or read emails from Fauci that reveal how dishonest he is, or see the hypocrisy of people concerning January 6th, etc., etc. We detest these lies that Psaki tells us everyday or Fauci tells us everyday or Harris tells us everyday. This is the end of the age and we see the tares being tied up into bundles and the wheat being gathered into their bundles and their is a very clear separation between the two. The Lord is separating out the wicked from the righteous.
24 The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies; they are put under oath and dare not testify.
This is where the real keystone cops are. After the 2020 election Time magazine ran a cover story trying to claim credit for stealing the election. Then there were Antifa that wanted to post on social media to claim credit for January 6th. Think about it, some punk kid could be involved in major historical events of epic consequences and he can’t say anything or else he will be confessing to treason, sedition, and other serious felonies. But if he says nothing everyone thinks he is a loser who can’t do anything. People’s ego is a major problem. Sure you got paid and they specifically paid you to keep your mouth shut and yet you learn what is the point if I am despised as a total loser?
25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
This is where the true leaders emerge because they aren’t afraid of man. Margorie Taylor Green is an excellent example of that, a junior member of congress, Pelosi stripped her of all committees, and yet she has emerged as a major leader in the Republican party simply because she, unlike most other Republicans, is not afraid of man.
26 Many seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one gets justice.
Yes, we have all learned that we need to pray. I appreciate those who are joining precincts or going to school board meetings, or speaking the truth, or battling election fraud in the courts. All of that is great, but praying for justice has become clearly the only way we will get justice.
27 The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright.
There you have it, this is why the country is polarized. The wicked detest the upright, this is why Hillary Clinton called them the “deplorables and irredeemable”. She is wicked and she detests the upright. On the other hand the righteous detest the dishonest. We see videos of them stuffing ballots, or pulling the ballots out of hiding, or read emails from Fauci that reveal how dishonest he is, or see the hypocrisy of people concerning January 6th, etc., etc. We detest these lies that Psaki tells us everyday or Fauci tells us everyday or Harris tells us everyday. This is the end of the age and we see the tares being tied up into bundles and the wheat being gathered into their bundles and their is a very clear separation between the two. The Lord is separating out the wicked from the righteous.
2 Corinthians 6 -- The Story of Hanukkah
1 As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. 2 For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
This is the story of Hanukkah. They were greatly outnumbered, had no chance of winning, but God heard them and helped them. All of these things that you are seeing today, they are designed to send you to your knees to call on God. The proper response is to pray to the Lord for God's favor and for salvation.
3 We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
This is what started it all. Antiochus and his soldiers were requiring Jews to sacrifice pigs and eat them. That is a stumbling block to the Jews. What are we seeing today with various laws that require the church to perform weddings for the LGBTQ, or to have trans men use the women's bathroom, or to be in the girl's locker room, what they are doing is putting a stumbling block in your path so they can discredit the ministry.
4 Rather, as servants of God
Mattathias was a priest to God and his sons stood up against the soldiers. We are not to respond as a political party, or as protestors, but rather as servants of God.
we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; 5 in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; 6 in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; 7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
Whatever they throw our way, these trials and tribulations offer us an opportunity to commend ourselves to your conscience in every way.
8 through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;9 known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
This is what we have seen the last few years with fact checkers and accusations of disinformation, and likening the unvaccinated to drunk drivers, and firing those who refuse to be vaccinated. The reason many "christians" don't have a testimony is because they worship material things, they can't say "they have nothing", or their life is not "in purity". It is hard when being slandered to be patient, kind, and have sincere love.
11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. 12 We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us.
The “rebellion” lasted for 3 years. Paul is comparing the hardships of the Maccabeans to the hardships in the New Testament ministry. You could also compare these to the tribulation which will have a 3 year period in there when the two witnesses (the two lampstands) testify. So the entire church age, the entire age of grace has been a 2,000 year tribulation, and all that we have seen over that time will be distilled down and repeated again during the three year tribulation.
13 As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also.
Fair exchange? This is the deal of the ages! Take a stand for the Lord in this age prior to the tribulation and you could be raptured before it and avoid it. You have a choice, three years of great tribulation, or a lifetime of the tribulation we see with those who take a stand for the Lord.
14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
This is what the entire festival of Hanukkah commemorates and why it is a festival of “rededication”. The Syrian Greeks were trying to force the Jews to be yoked together with unbelievers. This is what we see in the apostate church, they are yoked together with unbelievers and with wickedness.
15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
We see this same battle today. In our public schools the unbelievers and the wicked realized immediately there was no fellowship and so they worked to get rid of prayer and the Bible. They then attacked the pledge of allegiance for saying “one nation under God” and they attacked the celebration of religious holidays. They then pushed on attacking marriage and even sexual identity. Abortion became a major issue, handing out birth control to kids without the parents knowledge, and repudiating the Christian heritage of this country followed. Today they want to be able to castrate children without the parent's knowledge or consent. We cannot be in harmony with this.
16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Amen. This is our goal. This is the destination of our Christian journey.
17 Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” 18 And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
That was the call to those at the time of the Maccabeans. We are in a world of Greek culture. They worship “science”, that is their altar. Their temple is the sports arena. There are idols everywhere, singers, movie stars, sports stars. They teach people to commit fornication and in order to worship fornication they have to be able to kill unwanted babies. It has become clear that they can never win an election by winning a majority of votes. So their pride and arrogance has led them to lie, cheat and steal to get their way.
Come out from them and be separate.
1 As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. 2 For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
This is the story of Hanukkah. They were greatly outnumbered, had no chance of winning, but God heard them and helped them. All of these things that you are seeing today, they are designed to send you to your knees to call on God. The proper response is to pray to the Lord for God's favor and for salvation.
3 We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
This is what started it all. Antiochus and his soldiers were requiring Jews to sacrifice pigs and eat them. That is a stumbling block to the Jews. What are we seeing today with various laws that require the church to perform weddings for the LGBTQ, or to have trans men use the women's bathroom, or to be in the girl's locker room, what they are doing is putting a stumbling block in your path so they can discredit the ministry.
4 Rather, as servants of God
Mattathias was a priest to God and his sons stood up against the soldiers. We are not to respond as a political party, or as protestors, but rather as servants of God.
we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; 5 in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; 6 in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; 7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
Whatever they throw our way, these trials and tribulations offer us an opportunity to commend ourselves to your conscience in every way.
8 through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;9 known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
This is what we have seen the last few years with fact checkers and accusations of disinformation, and likening the unvaccinated to drunk drivers, and firing those who refuse to be vaccinated. The reason many "christians" don't have a testimony is because they worship material things, they can't say "they have nothing", or their life is not "in purity". It is hard when being slandered to be patient, kind, and have sincere love.
11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. 12 We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us.
The “rebellion” lasted for 3 years. Paul is comparing the hardships of the Maccabeans to the hardships in the New Testament ministry. You could also compare these to the tribulation which will have a 3 year period in there when the two witnesses (the two lampstands) testify. So the entire church age, the entire age of grace has been a 2,000 year tribulation, and all that we have seen over that time will be distilled down and repeated again during the three year tribulation.
13 As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also.
Fair exchange? This is the deal of the ages! Take a stand for the Lord in this age prior to the tribulation and you could be raptured before it and avoid it. You have a choice, three years of great tribulation, or a lifetime of the tribulation we see with those who take a stand for the Lord.
14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
This is what the entire festival of Hanukkah commemorates and why it is a festival of “rededication”. The Syrian Greeks were trying to force the Jews to be yoked together with unbelievers. This is what we see in the apostate church, they are yoked together with unbelievers and with wickedness.
15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
We see this same battle today. In our public schools the unbelievers and the wicked realized immediately there was no fellowship and so they worked to get rid of prayer and the Bible. They then attacked the pledge of allegiance for saying “one nation under God” and they attacked the celebration of religious holidays. They then pushed on attacking marriage and even sexual identity. Abortion became a major issue, handing out birth control to kids without the parents knowledge, and repudiating the Christian heritage of this country followed. Today they want to be able to castrate children without the parent's knowledge or consent. We cannot be in harmony with this.
16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Amen. This is our goal. This is the destination of our Christian journey.
17 Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” 18 And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
That was the call to those at the time of the Maccabeans. We are in a world of Greek culture. They worship “science”, that is their altar. Their temple is the sports arena. There are idols everywhere, singers, movie stars, sports stars. They teach people to commit fornication and in order to worship fornication they have to be able to kill unwanted babies. It has become clear that they can never win an election by winning a majority of votes. So their pride and arrogance has led them to lie, cheat and steal to get their way.
Come out from them and be separate.
2 Corinthians 7:1-9 -- Bringing down the entire house of cards in a huge radioactive cloud
1 Therefore, since we have these [great and wonderful] promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, completing holiness [living a consecrated life—a life set apart for God’s purpose] in the fear of God.
Hanukkah is a celebration of rededication. God has promised to hear and to help when we call. That is a great and wonderful promise to have a God that answers prayers. The Maccabees fought against all the things that contaminate body and spirit. The church is supposed to be set apart, consecrated to the Lord.
2 Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one.
A major issue is the mainstream media making accusations that are false. They accused General Flynn of colluding with Russia, they accused Trump of colluding with Russia, they created a bogus “pee pee tape”, they had a three year investigation of Mueller that could not find any evidence of collusion with Russia, the impeachment was also false. Just one accusation after another and all the investigations have shown that we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, and we cheated no one. Do not misunderstand, I use these examples because the Lord is using them to make this clear to everyone in the US. We are seeing that people who did cheat others, who did corrupt others, who did wrong others are protected. FTX is an example, Drag queen story hour for elementary school kids is another, Joe Biden and his son Hunter is a third.
3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I have said before that you are [nested] in our hearts [and you will remain there] to die together and to live together [with us].
This is what we are seeing with the Deplorables and Trump. They had a rally with the senate candidates where the crowd took over the rally with chants of “Fight for Trump”. It is clear that they have dedicated themselves to fight to the end. We see the same thing in Brazil with their protests. To me these are a shadow of what we saw with Hanukkah and those that stood against Antiochus Epiphanes. This is what the church was but at the end of the age you will see the world divided. You will have the Antichrist as a ruler of one world government with one world religion and one world economy battling with the Christians who refuse to take the mark of the beast, or align themselves with the Antichrist. So you can argue that those on one side of this divide are not Christians, but it is abundantly clear that those on the other side of the divide supporting Biden, the Globalists, Chrislam, and the WEF are definitely not Christians. The wheat and tares are still being separated, but it is getting clearer and clearer who the tares are.
4 Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride and boasting on your behalf. I am filled [to the brim] with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in spite of all our trouble. We have also seen this as well.
People watching the January 6th rally said it was not a “farewell tour”. This was not a rally of well wishers accepting defeat. Once again, so that no one is confused, for two thousand years it should have been clear that believers were ambassadors of the Kingdom of the heavens, their citizenship was in the heavens and the Lord's ministry was not involved in political parties. However, at this time Satan has been working to create one world economic system, one world government and one world religion. By doing this you are seeing the Christians left out of this, and so as the Christians become bundled together outside of Satan's kingdom they appear like a populist political party. But in reality they are simply standing for righteousness. Not all are Christians but one by one they are realizing the other side is lying to them, cheating them, and trying to defraud them.
5 For even when we arrived in Macedonia our bodies had no rest, but we were oppressed at every turn—conflicts and disputes without, fears and dread within. 6 But God, who comforts and encourages the depressed and the disquieted, comforted us by the arrival of Titus. 7 And not only by his arrival, but also by [his account of] the encouragement which he received in regard to you. He told us about your longing [for us], your mourning [over sin], and how eagerly you took my part and supported me, so that I rejoiced even more.
The Stop the Steal rallies were not organized by the Trump campaign. They are involved in legal battles, but the rallies are organized by individuals. They rose up almost immediately on November 4th, they have supported the legal efforts with donations, many are concerned about the evidence of sin regardless of their political affiliation. You don't have to be for either party to support free and fair elections. Most Democrats did not see a problem with the 2020 election, but in 2022 they did see that a large number of people in Arizona were denied their right to vote and that woke them up. This is not about a party or politics, this is about righteousness and truth.
8 For even though I did grieve you with my letter, I do not regret it [now]; though I did regret it —for I see that the letter hurt you, though only for a little while— 9 yet I am glad now, not because you were hurt and made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance [and you turned back to God]; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that you might not suffer loss in anything on our account.
Look what has happened because of this election fraud. People have felt grief for the the US, for their liberty, for their constitution, for their covenant with God. We have parents who have woken up to what is going on in the public schools, others have become aware of the corruption and pedophilia at companies like CNN and Disney. Others have woken up to the border crisis, others to the economic crisis of inflation and layoffs, and still others see us moving to a nuclear war with Russia.
1 Therefore, since we have these [great and wonderful] promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, completing holiness [living a consecrated life—a life set apart for God’s purpose] in the fear of God.
Hanukkah is a celebration of rededication. God has promised to hear and to help when we call. That is a great and wonderful promise to have a God that answers prayers. The Maccabees fought against all the things that contaminate body and spirit. The church is supposed to be set apart, consecrated to the Lord.
2 Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one.
A major issue is the mainstream media making accusations that are false. They accused General Flynn of colluding with Russia, they accused Trump of colluding with Russia, they created a bogus “pee pee tape”, they had a three year investigation of Mueller that could not find any evidence of collusion with Russia, the impeachment was also false. Just one accusation after another and all the investigations have shown that we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, and we cheated no one. Do not misunderstand, I use these examples because the Lord is using them to make this clear to everyone in the US. We are seeing that people who did cheat others, who did corrupt others, who did wrong others are protected. FTX is an example, Drag queen story hour for elementary school kids is another, Joe Biden and his son Hunter is a third.
3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I have said before that you are [nested] in our hearts [and you will remain there] to die together and to live together [with us].
This is what we are seeing with the Deplorables and Trump. They had a rally with the senate candidates where the crowd took over the rally with chants of “Fight for Trump”. It is clear that they have dedicated themselves to fight to the end. We see the same thing in Brazil with their protests. To me these are a shadow of what we saw with Hanukkah and those that stood against Antiochus Epiphanes. This is what the church was but at the end of the age you will see the world divided. You will have the Antichrist as a ruler of one world government with one world religion and one world economy battling with the Christians who refuse to take the mark of the beast, or align themselves with the Antichrist. So you can argue that those on one side of this divide are not Christians, but it is abundantly clear that those on the other side of the divide supporting Biden, the Globalists, Chrislam, and the WEF are definitely not Christians. The wheat and tares are still being separated, but it is getting clearer and clearer who the tares are.
4 Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride and boasting on your behalf. I am filled [to the brim] with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in spite of all our trouble. We have also seen this as well.
People watching the January 6th rally said it was not a “farewell tour”. This was not a rally of well wishers accepting defeat. Once again, so that no one is confused, for two thousand years it should have been clear that believers were ambassadors of the Kingdom of the heavens, their citizenship was in the heavens and the Lord's ministry was not involved in political parties. However, at this time Satan has been working to create one world economic system, one world government and one world religion. By doing this you are seeing the Christians left out of this, and so as the Christians become bundled together outside of Satan's kingdom they appear like a populist political party. But in reality they are simply standing for righteousness. Not all are Christians but one by one they are realizing the other side is lying to them, cheating them, and trying to defraud them.
5 For even when we arrived in Macedonia our bodies had no rest, but we were oppressed at every turn—conflicts and disputes without, fears and dread within. 6 But God, who comforts and encourages the depressed and the disquieted, comforted us by the arrival of Titus. 7 And not only by his arrival, but also by [his account of] the encouragement which he received in regard to you. He told us about your longing [for us], your mourning [over sin], and how eagerly you took my part and supported me, so that I rejoiced even more.
The Stop the Steal rallies were not organized by the Trump campaign. They are involved in legal battles, but the rallies are organized by individuals. They rose up almost immediately on November 4th, they have supported the legal efforts with donations, many are concerned about the evidence of sin regardless of their political affiliation. You don't have to be for either party to support free and fair elections. Most Democrats did not see a problem with the 2020 election, but in 2022 they did see that a large number of people in Arizona were denied their right to vote and that woke them up. This is not about a party or politics, this is about righteousness and truth.
8 For even though I did grieve you with my letter, I do not regret it [now]; though I did regret it —for I see that the letter hurt you, though only for a little while— 9 yet I am glad now, not because you were hurt and made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance [and you turned back to God]; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that you might not suffer loss in anything on our account.
Look what has happened because of this election fraud. People have felt grief for the the US, for their liberty, for their constitution, for their covenant with God. We have parents who have woken up to what is going on in the public schools, others have become aware of the corruption and pedophilia at companies like CNN and Disney. Others have woken up to the border crisis, others to the economic crisis of inflation and layoffs, and still others see us moving to a nuclear war with Russia.
2Corinthians 7:10-16 Godly sorrow spurred us to action
10 For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe] produces death.
People are angry, they are sad, but it was a sorrow that led to action. Political leaders have come to realize that if 50 million Americans think the election was stolen they will not be able to govern. It is a sadness that is leading to salvation. For the first time in US history people are seeing that the power truly is with the people.
11 For [you can look back and] see what an earnestness and authentic concern this godly sorrow has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves [against charges that you tolerate sin], what indignation [at sin], what fear [of offending God], what longing [for righteousness and justice], what passion [to do what is right], what readiness to punish [those who sin and those who tolerate sin]! At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in the matter.
This is certainly true of those on the legal team, those in the rallies, and of a few individual politicians who have been particularly courageous. But it is quite clear that there are many in positions of authority that are willing to tolerate sin, there are many that are the “unrighteous judge” referred to in Luke. It is clear that many parents are not willing to tolerate the sin going on in the schools, but they are not simply complaining, they are taking action. This is what the ministry is, you take action, take a stand, speak for the Lord Jesus and that proves you are innocent in these crimes and sins.
12 So even though I wrote to you [as I did], it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but in order to make evident to you before God how earnestly you do care for us [and your willingness to accept our authority]. 13 It is for this reason that we are comforted and encouraged. This is evidence of our salvation, it is evidence that we are becoming the Lord’s letter of commendation. And in addition to our comfort, we were especially delighted at the joy of Titus, because you have refreshed his spirit.
Even Trump’s enemies marvelled that he was able to do 5 “rock star rallies” in a single day. He is relatively old, clearly he gets refreshed by these events not drained, gets filled with joy and encouragement. What is happening to day gives us an opportunity to make it evident that we stand for the Lord Jesus. When you stand against all for the Lord it is evidence that you have been saved. The rapture is composed of those who "are the Lord's letter of commendation".
14 For if I have boasted to him at all concerning you, I was not disappointed. But just as everything we ever said to you was true, so our boasting [about you] to Titus has proved true also. 15 His affection is greater than ever as he remembers the obedience [to his guidance] that all of you exhibited, and how you received him with the greatest respect. 16 I rejoice that in everything I have [perfect] confidence in you.
In summary, what we are seeing play out in the US today is Hanukkah 2.0. We are rededicating ourselves to the Mayflower compact, we are cleansing ourselves from everything that contaminates the body and spirit. People are learning to reject the “idols”, the “TV stars”, “Movie stars”, and other “beautiful people”. They are learning to their dismay that no one listens to them anymore. Sports stars thought that they could tweet some foolish comment and the whole world would act at their command. They did act, their ratings plummeted. The mainstream media’s ratings plummeted. We have become aware of the “leaven of the scribes and Pharisees”. As we learned that all of these accusations were false. They were perpetrated by liars with an agenda to smear it has flipped the script. There was a video entered as evidence of election fraud showing workers hiding tens of thousands of ballots, pretending they were done counting and sending everyone home, turning out the lights for thirty minutes then pulling out these ballots and counting them in secret. The Facebook fact checkers censored the video because the person describing the scene described the wheeled containers with a handle were called “suitcases” when apparently the fact checkers claimed they were “boxes”. So a story about election fraud because tens of thousands of ballots that were almost all for Biden and were the difference between victory and defeat were counted in secret was “fake news” because these ballots were not stored in “suitcases” but rather some very nice boxes. What everyone has learned is that the story you want to see is the one that Facebook labels as “fake news”. Whenever they do that it highlights how important that story is to bringing down their entire house of cards. The Twitter files is digging deep into the collusion between the Federal government and these platforms in censoring Americans in violation of the US constitution.
10 For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe] produces death.
People are angry, they are sad, but it was a sorrow that led to action. Political leaders have come to realize that if 50 million Americans think the election was stolen they will not be able to govern. It is a sadness that is leading to salvation. For the first time in US history people are seeing that the power truly is with the people.
11 For [you can look back and] see what an earnestness and authentic concern this godly sorrow has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves [against charges that you tolerate sin], what indignation [at sin], what fear [of offending God], what longing [for righteousness and justice], what passion [to do what is right], what readiness to punish [those who sin and those who tolerate sin]! At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in the matter.
This is certainly true of those on the legal team, those in the rallies, and of a few individual politicians who have been particularly courageous. But it is quite clear that there are many in positions of authority that are willing to tolerate sin, there are many that are the “unrighteous judge” referred to in Luke. It is clear that many parents are not willing to tolerate the sin going on in the schools, but they are not simply complaining, they are taking action. This is what the ministry is, you take action, take a stand, speak for the Lord Jesus and that proves you are innocent in these crimes and sins.
12 So even though I wrote to you [as I did], it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but in order to make evident to you before God how earnestly you do care for us [and your willingness to accept our authority]. 13 It is for this reason that we are comforted and encouraged. This is evidence of our salvation, it is evidence that we are becoming the Lord’s letter of commendation. And in addition to our comfort, we were especially delighted at the joy of Titus, because you have refreshed his spirit.
Even Trump’s enemies marvelled that he was able to do 5 “rock star rallies” in a single day. He is relatively old, clearly he gets refreshed by these events not drained, gets filled with joy and encouragement. What is happening to day gives us an opportunity to make it evident that we stand for the Lord Jesus. When you stand against all for the Lord it is evidence that you have been saved. The rapture is composed of those who "are the Lord's letter of commendation".
14 For if I have boasted to him at all concerning you, I was not disappointed. But just as everything we ever said to you was true, so our boasting [about you] to Titus has proved true also. 15 His affection is greater than ever as he remembers the obedience [to his guidance] that all of you exhibited, and how you received him with the greatest respect. 16 I rejoice that in everything I have [perfect] confidence in you.
In summary, what we are seeing play out in the US today is Hanukkah 2.0. We are rededicating ourselves to the Mayflower compact, we are cleansing ourselves from everything that contaminates the body and spirit. People are learning to reject the “idols”, the “TV stars”, “Movie stars”, and other “beautiful people”. They are learning to their dismay that no one listens to them anymore. Sports stars thought that they could tweet some foolish comment and the whole world would act at their command. They did act, their ratings plummeted. The mainstream media’s ratings plummeted. We have become aware of the “leaven of the scribes and Pharisees”. As we learned that all of these accusations were false. They were perpetrated by liars with an agenda to smear it has flipped the script. There was a video entered as evidence of election fraud showing workers hiding tens of thousands of ballots, pretending they were done counting and sending everyone home, turning out the lights for thirty minutes then pulling out these ballots and counting them in secret. The Facebook fact checkers censored the video because the person describing the scene described the wheeled containers with a handle were called “suitcases” when apparently the fact checkers claimed they were “boxes”. So a story about election fraud because tens of thousands of ballots that were almost all for Biden and were the difference between victory and defeat were counted in secret was “fake news” because these ballots were not stored in “suitcases” but rather some very nice boxes. What everyone has learned is that the story you want to see is the one that Facebook labels as “fake news”. Whenever they do that it highlights how important that story is to bringing down their entire house of cards. The Twitter files is digging deep into the collusion between the Federal government and these platforms in censoring Americans in violation of the US constitution.
2 Corinthians 5:1-11 -- We know what it is to fear the Lord
The New Testament ministry is the ministry of reconciliation. This is what the festival of Hanukkah is all about, the reconciliation of God’s people to God.
1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
This is the ace in the hole. This is an essential part of the ministry, of the gospel message in the New Testament. This is the attitude you need to be a martyr (witness) and to take up your cross and follow the Lord.
2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
So yes, you can be reduced to a situation where you don’t have clothes, or food or a place to live. You might be found naked in this age. But that is because you have given everything to follow the Lord and that is the “letter of commendation” we see in chapter 3.
4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
There are a lot of things we “don’t wish” to happen, doesn’t mean they won’t. So yes, the Lord realizes we might go through all kinds of experiences we “don’t wish” to go through. This is the narrow way that leads to life. If you want to go through the eye of the needle you will have to leave behind the camel loaded down with all those goods from this world.
5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
We have been fashioned for this purpose. Often you are forced to go through things you never thought you could. As the Lord leads us through it strengthens our faith, guaranteeing that He will lead us through whatever we are to face. Everything we have gone through in our life fashions us for the very purpose of God. When I first began speaking for the Lord I was surprised by the attack, but later I expected and anticipated it. However, then I would be surprised by surprise attacks. You don't realize that the enemy knows who you are and lays traps, snares and blatantly dirty attacks. But the lesson was that you are on a battlefield, it is always war, there is no "pause" button you get to push. This pushes you more and more to hide in the Lord as your strong tower. Continue speaking for the Lord like a lighthouse, but like a lighthouse you are safely in a strong tower protecting you from the storm.
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
The ministry is like walking on a high wire. You have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. People are not going to like that, they will take action and they may even kill you. But there is a net below us that if we do die we will be with the Lord. I have seen many people posting their dreams and visions and interpretations and then suddenly surprised by the ferocity of the attack. We are in a war, keep your head down, but continue to send a ferocious barrage of the word and revelation out that will overwhelm the enemy.
7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Paul is not saying that everyone feels this way, he is saying that as an apostle of the Lord sent to speak some very tough words to this evil generation this is the mindset you have to have. Then the threat of death is no threat at all.
9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
Oops, don’t forget that little point. If you are living and walking with this mindset that it is no threat to me that they might kill me because I would rather be with the Lord, well then you better make sure that your goal is to please Him. So as long as you are pleasing the Lord, being obedient to His word, what can the enemy do? Where O death is your sting?
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
This is the other side of this. Maybe you don’t have the mindset of Paul the apostle of the Lord Jesus, but at least as a believer you do know that we all must appear before the judgement seat of Christ. Whether you live 20 or 40 or 80 years it is all trivial when viewed from eternity.
11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others.
This is what it is to fear the Lord. Some people are afraid to lose their job, or to lose their savings, or to lose their home, or even their life. When you are no longer afraid of that but rather afraid of not pleasing the Lord, that is the fear of the Lord.
The New Testament ministry is the ministry of reconciliation. This is what the festival of Hanukkah is all about, the reconciliation of God’s people to God.
1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
This is the ace in the hole. This is an essential part of the ministry, of the gospel message in the New Testament. This is the attitude you need to be a martyr (witness) and to take up your cross and follow the Lord.
2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
So yes, you can be reduced to a situation where you don’t have clothes, or food or a place to live. You might be found naked in this age. But that is because you have given everything to follow the Lord and that is the “letter of commendation” we see in chapter 3.
4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
There are a lot of things we “don’t wish” to happen, doesn’t mean they won’t. So yes, the Lord realizes we might go through all kinds of experiences we “don’t wish” to go through. This is the narrow way that leads to life. If you want to go through the eye of the needle you will have to leave behind the camel loaded down with all those goods from this world.
5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
We have been fashioned for this purpose. Often you are forced to go through things you never thought you could. As the Lord leads us through it strengthens our faith, guaranteeing that He will lead us through whatever we are to face. Everything we have gone through in our life fashions us for the very purpose of God. When I first began speaking for the Lord I was surprised by the attack, but later I expected and anticipated it. However, then I would be surprised by surprise attacks. You don't realize that the enemy knows who you are and lays traps, snares and blatantly dirty attacks. But the lesson was that you are on a battlefield, it is always war, there is no "pause" button you get to push. This pushes you more and more to hide in the Lord as your strong tower. Continue speaking for the Lord like a lighthouse, but like a lighthouse you are safely in a strong tower protecting you from the storm.
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
The ministry is like walking on a high wire. You have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. People are not going to like that, they will take action and they may even kill you. But there is a net below us that if we do die we will be with the Lord. I have seen many people posting their dreams and visions and interpretations and then suddenly surprised by the ferocity of the attack. We are in a war, keep your head down, but continue to send a ferocious barrage of the word and revelation out that will overwhelm the enemy.
7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Paul is not saying that everyone feels this way, he is saying that as an apostle of the Lord sent to speak some very tough words to this evil generation this is the mindset you have to have. Then the threat of death is no threat at all.
9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
Oops, don’t forget that little point. If you are living and walking with this mindset that it is no threat to me that they might kill me because I would rather be with the Lord, well then you better make sure that your goal is to please Him. So as long as you are pleasing the Lord, being obedient to His word, what can the enemy do? Where O death is your sting?
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
This is the other side of this. Maybe you don’t have the mindset of Paul the apostle of the Lord Jesus, but at least as a believer you do know that we all must appear before the judgement seat of Christ. Whether you live 20 or 40 or 80 years it is all trivial when viewed from eternity.
11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others.
This is what it is to fear the Lord. Some people are afraid to lose their job, or to lose their savings, or to lose their home, or even their life. When you are no longer afraid of that but rather afraid of not pleasing the Lord, that is the fear of the Lord.
2Cor 5:11b-21 Be Reconciled to God
What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
What do people boast about? How big their ministry is? How many people have received the Lord? Suppose there was another preacher at the time of Paul, big ministry with thousands coming every Lord’s day. Where is he now? Besides Paul how many other Christian ministries are you familiar with from 2,000 years ago? Whose words are you praying over and are now guiding your path in this current age? There are a lot of people in turmoil as “2020 is a year like no other” and then in 2021 "Normal is not coming back, Jesus is" and then in 2022 it is "last call to be reconciled to God".
13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
Typical response of atheists, as far as they are concerned what you can see and feel is everything. There is no eternal life. So Paul’s speaking here is “out of his mind”. But Paul is compelled by love for us, that is the right mindset. He is convinced that Jesus died for us and therefore we all suffered a death that day. If Jesus died for me then His death belongs to me.
15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
This also seems very logical and reasonable. We were condemned to death under sin. Jesus died in our stead to pay the price for us. It seems very reasonable to me that given that is the case that we should no longer live for ourselves but for Jesus who died for us. Not only so, don’t forget our ace in the hole, Jesus was also raised again. This is the right mind. Jesus showed us that death is not the end of the game, after death comes the judgement.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
“O snap!” All these ministers at Paul’s time that were boasting, that was a worldly point of view. Paul’s view was not on what was seen, but rather on the word of God that is eternal. Hence, 2,000 years later we are here reading Paul and have no idea who all these boastful Christian ministers were.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
We are in the new creation. Yes, our heritage is the Old Testament, but they were in the Old creation and that has gone. This is an important principle when reading God’s word concerning the rapture, the day of the Lord, and God’s dispensation with the church. The watchmen have all been looking at the seven holy convocations in the Old Testament for a prophecy concerning the things to come and the rapture. But we are told specifically that we are in the New Testament, all things are become new. This is the feast of Hanukkah. It is an 8 day celebration signifying a new beginning and it is not a feast of the Old Testament but of the new.
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.
Paul told us that the comfort that God comforts us when we are in affliction is the comfort that we can share with others that will become the basis for a ministry. We all have a ministry of reconciliation because we all were reconciled. We may have a great variety of experiences of being reconciled, but that way we can also reach a great variety of believers.
And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
The Lord is trusting you with this message. This is what we have that the angels don't have. Satan has no clue about reconciliation.
20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.
We are ambassadors of the kingdom of the heavens, strangers in a strange land.
We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
This is the message of any true ministry. We are going to meet the Lord and will have to give account of ourselves. Now is the best time to be reconciled.
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Your sins are not able to prevent you from being reconciled and your righteousness is of no use. God is not interested in your righteousness, He wants you to become “the righteousness of God”, He wants you to become His letter of commendation.
What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
What do people boast about? How big their ministry is? How many people have received the Lord? Suppose there was another preacher at the time of Paul, big ministry with thousands coming every Lord’s day. Where is he now? Besides Paul how many other Christian ministries are you familiar with from 2,000 years ago? Whose words are you praying over and are now guiding your path in this current age? There are a lot of people in turmoil as “2020 is a year like no other” and then in 2021 "Normal is not coming back, Jesus is" and then in 2022 it is "last call to be reconciled to God".
13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
Typical response of atheists, as far as they are concerned what you can see and feel is everything. There is no eternal life. So Paul’s speaking here is “out of his mind”. But Paul is compelled by love for us, that is the right mindset. He is convinced that Jesus died for us and therefore we all suffered a death that day. If Jesus died for me then His death belongs to me.
15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
This also seems very logical and reasonable. We were condemned to death under sin. Jesus died in our stead to pay the price for us. It seems very reasonable to me that given that is the case that we should no longer live for ourselves but for Jesus who died for us. Not only so, don’t forget our ace in the hole, Jesus was also raised again. This is the right mind. Jesus showed us that death is not the end of the game, after death comes the judgement.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
“O snap!” All these ministers at Paul’s time that were boasting, that was a worldly point of view. Paul’s view was not on what was seen, but rather on the word of God that is eternal. Hence, 2,000 years later we are here reading Paul and have no idea who all these boastful Christian ministers were.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
We are in the new creation. Yes, our heritage is the Old Testament, but they were in the Old creation and that has gone. This is an important principle when reading God’s word concerning the rapture, the day of the Lord, and God’s dispensation with the church. The watchmen have all been looking at the seven holy convocations in the Old Testament for a prophecy concerning the things to come and the rapture. But we are told specifically that we are in the New Testament, all things are become new. This is the feast of Hanukkah. It is an 8 day celebration signifying a new beginning and it is not a feast of the Old Testament but of the new.
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.
Paul told us that the comfort that God comforts us when we are in affliction is the comfort that we can share with others that will become the basis for a ministry. We all have a ministry of reconciliation because we all were reconciled. We may have a great variety of experiences of being reconciled, but that way we can also reach a great variety of believers.
And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
The Lord is trusting you with this message. This is what we have that the angels don't have. Satan has no clue about reconciliation.
20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.
We are ambassadors of the kingdom of the heavens, strangers in a strange land.
We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
This is the message of any true ministry. We are going to meet the Lord and will have to give account of ourselves. Now is the best time to be reconciled.
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Your sins are not able to prevent you from being reconciled and your righteousness is of no use. God is not interested in your righteousness, He wants you to become “the righteousness of God”, He wants you to become His letter of commendation.
3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
The question is about the sign of the Lord's coming and specifically "when" and also the "end of the age".
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
The first warning is about deception. Satan is the father of lies, he is very deceitful, and what we have seen this age is about a master class in deceit. The printing press released the Bible, it also released propaganda. Same thing with the radio, TV and internet. The CIA and many other intelligence agencies exploded onto the scene after WWII. But even more than that the Lord points to a very specific form of deceit "many will come in My name". Can you imagine, he has around 100-500 disciples around this time in a small country. That is an incredible prophecy to say that at the end of the age you will see all kinds of false prophets coming in the name of Jesus, claiming to be men of God but deceiving and defrauding many. It has been relatively recently that we have been besieged by so many false prophets preaching the prosperity gospel, using TV and the internet to spread their word and deceive many. No doubt it happened in the past but nothing on this scale.
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.
This is another incredible prophesy. At the time of Jesus there were no newspapers, no radio, no TV, and so you could have a war going on in Britain and the people of Israel wouldn't know anything about it. Radio didn't become common until after WWI, TV after WWII and satellite TV after the first Gulf War. Only now can we watch in real time things that are happening around the globe. In the 1800s no one in the US felt threatened by a war in Russia or Indonesia or the Middle East or Africa. It wasn't until WWI that we actually felt world events might affect us. But it wasn't until after WWII and the nuclear bombs that we felt threatened.
See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
This is following the four horses of the apocalypse. The white horse is a deceitful counterfeit Christ, the red horse is war, the black horse is famine and the pale green horse is pestilence. So although there have been several major pandemics prior to 2020, the Covid19 pandemic is the first time we had a worldwide shutdown and worldwide response to a pandemic. Yes we have had wars for 2,000 years but it wasn't until WWII that the entire world felt threatened by a potential nuclear holocaust. Likewise with famines. There have been quite a few regional famines over the last 2,000 years but what we are about to witness is the first ever global famine. Also, consider this point about earthquakes in various places. Prior to the 20th century you really had no idea about earthquakes in various places. After WWII we had seismographs in most countries around the world. If an earthquake took place anywhere we could figure out where and how big it is relatively quickly. So that one prophecy indicates modern technology and a worldwide communication network with telephones and telegraphs and radio, TV, etc.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
This is the fifth seal. True they killed Christians at the beginning of the church age, but the scale and frequency is far greater now than it has ever been in history and we are on the cusp of Christians becoming scapegoats and killed on a scale never before seen.
10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
This is a new level of deceit, coming in the name of Jesus was one level, this is turbocharged. This is what we have seen take place with social media. The number of false prophets have increased exponentially. Think of all the bots on Twitter. These intelligence agencies like CIA and CCP are using platforms like Twitter and Tik Tok to manipulate people with fake news.
12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
Lawlessness does not abound in a tyrannical regime. China and Russia do not have a drug problem, they do not have a problem of gangs on the streets. There has always been crime and criminals, but "abounding"? We have discovered that the CIA makes money off of crime. They can easily bring in drugs, they can easily make "kings" of different criminal bosses. They use crime around the world. Importing drugs from Afghanistan to the US requires a sophisticated network that most high school dropout thugs could never put together.
13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Only recently with cell phones, internet, and Youtube can you say that the gospel is truly being preached in all the world. When a Youtube video is posted preaching the gospel you can say that it is "preached in all the world".
So yes, on one hand we have had all of these things take place during the church age, but never in history have all these things taken place on this scale and with this frequency like they are taking place today.
The question is about the sign of the Lord's coming and specifically "when" and also the "end of the age".
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
The first warning is about deception. Satan is the father of lies, he is very deceitful, and what we have seen this age is about a master class in deceit. The printing press released the Bible, it also released propaganda. Same thing with the radio, TV and internet. The CIA and many other intelligence agencies exploded onto the scene after WWII. But even more than that the Lord points to a very specific form of deceit "many will come in My name". Can you imagine, he has around 100-500 disciples around this time in a small country. That is an incredible prophecy to say that at the end of the age you will see all kinds of false prophets coming in the name of Jesus, claiming to be men of God but deceiving and defrauding many. It has been relatively recently that we have been besieged by so many false prophets preaching the prosperity gospel, using TV and the internet to spread their word and deceive many. No doubt it happened in the past but nothing on this scale.
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.
This is another incredible prophesy. At the time of Jesus there were no newspapers, no radio, no TV, and so you could have a war going on in Britain and the people of Israel wouldn't know anything about it. Radio didn't become common until after WWI, TV after WWII and satellite TV after the first Gulf War. Only now can we watch in real time things that are happening around the globe. In the 1800s no one in the US felt threatened by a war in Russia or Indonesia or the Middle East or Africa. It wasn't until WWI that we actually felt world events might affect us. But it wasn't until after WWII and the nuclear bombs that we felt threatened.
See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
This is following the four horses of the apocalypse. The white horse is a deceitful counterfeit Christ, the red horse is war, the black horse is famine and the pale green horse is pestilence. So although there have been several major pandemics prior to 2020, the Covid19 pandemic is the first time we had a worldwide shutdown and worldwide response to a pandemic. Yes we have had wars for 2,000 years but it wasn't until WWII that the entire world felt threatened by a potential nuclear holocaust. Likewise with famines. There have been quite a few regional famines over the last 2,000 years but what we are about to witness is the first ever global famine. Also, consider this point about earthquakes in various places. Prior to the 20th century you really had no idea about earthquakes in various places. After WWII we had seismographs in most countries around the world. If an earthquake took place anywhere we could figure out where and how big it is relatively quickly. So that one prophecy indicates modern technology and a worldwide communication network with telephones and telegraphs and radio, TV, etc.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
This is the fifth seal. True they killed Christians at the beginning of the church age, but the scale and frequency is far greater now than it has ever been in history and we are on the cusp of Christians becoming scapegoats and killed on a scale never before seen.
10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
This is a new level of deceit, coming in the name of Jesus was one level, this is turbocharged. This is what we have seen take place with social media. The number of false prophets have increased exponentially. Think of all the bots on Twitter. These intelligence agencies like CIA and CCP are using platforms like Twitter and Tik Tok to manipulate people with fake news.
12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
Lawlessness does not abound in a tyrannical regime. China and Russia do not have a drug problem, they do not have a problem of gangs on the streets. There has always been crime and criminals, but "abounding"? We have discovered that the CIA makes money off of crime. They can easily bring in drugs, they can easily make "kings" of different criminal bosses. They use crime around the world. Importing drugs from Afghanistan to the US requires a sophisticated network that most high school dropout thugs could never put together.
13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Only recently with cell phones, internet, and Youtube can you say that the gospel is truly being preached in all the world. When a Youtube video is posted preaching the gospel you can say that it is "preached in all the world".
So yes, on one hand we have had all of these things take place during the church age, but never in history have all these things taken place on this scale and with this frequency like they are taking place today.