Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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War will no longer be Contained to One Area 12/26/2022
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Mark 3 “His end has come”.
5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. 6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
This event exposed their plots to kill Jesus. The end of this age there will be judgement. You will have those who believe in Jesus receiving judgement and you will also have those who plot to kill Jesus receiving judgement. Before that can happen you have to separate them. Today we see these groups being separated. I saw on Youtube many people at these “stop the steal” protests saying they were Democrats, they weren’t there to support Trump rather they were there to support the US constitution and a free and fair election.
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed.
Right now you have to withdraw from the mainstream media and these big tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Instead there are smaller platforms like Rumble that you can use, and other sources of news like Next News, NTD, Sky news, Dailywire, etc. Withdraw from CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NY Times, and guess what, the people will follow you to Rumble and Bannon's War room, for the truth.
8 When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. 9 Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. 10 For he had healed many,so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. 11 Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” 12 But he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him. 13 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. 14 He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach 15 and to have authority to drive out demons. 16 These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter), 17 James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means “sons of thunder”), 18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
Likewise there are some very powerful “preachers” on these platforms. So although many of these are taking a stand for doing good and not for killing, there are also those who are preaching Jesus as well. This is what is exciting when you see the airwaves filling up with these ones who have just recently been sent out by the Lord.
20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
This is funny. Everyone talks about that crazy uncle at Thanksgiving that “is out of his mind”. When my family was celebrating Biden’s “win” I responded that “yes, this is a very exciting election and I have been paying close attention and am very interested to see how it turns out in the end”. That brought a vehement response, I pointed out that CNN and Fox don’t get to call elections, the GSA does. Again, the response was like hitting a hornets nest with a bat, but the kindest thing they might of said is that “he is out of his mind”.
22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.”
Now that is what the mainstream media is saying. The ugly, nasty accusations are off the charts. Their hypocrisy is on full display that they would all rally behind Clinton’s cry “do not concede under any circumstances” and then rail against Trump and portray him as Scarface holed up in the oval office.
23 So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan Drive out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.
Satan is opposing himself. He is opposing what Clinton said. His actions with Hunter Biden’s laptop oppose what he was saying just nine months earlier. His attitude towards large public campaign rallies is completely contradictory from Nov 2 to Nov 4. This is because his end has come. This is it for him, he is Scarface. FTX was not exposed by some plot of Satan, that is his kingdom being divided. Everything that has come out on Covid19 and on Election steal, this is all about his kingdom being divided.
27 In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s house.
During the end of this age the Lord is going to plunder the strong man’s house, that is a reference to the rapture and the Lord coming as a thief. For the lukewarm church the Lord comes as a thief. But first, before the rapture, you must tie up the strong man. Bind him, throw him in prison. That is what we are seeing right now. That is what the “stop the steal” protests are all about. That is what Giuliani and hundreds of affidavits, witness testimonies, and physical evidence are all about.
28 Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
You can say that your crazy uncle has lost his mind, that is fine, you can be forgiven of that. But if you say that everyone needs to ignore 234 signed affidavits, if you say that the rest of the country needs to ignore 71 million people, then there is no forgiveness for that. If you say that Kari Lake's election loss was legitimate despite all the evidence, there is no forgiveness in that.
30 He said this because they were saying, “He has an impure spirit.”
If you say that following the legal, constitutional process to contest the election in the courts is “impure” and a “coup” then there is no forgiveness for that.
31 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived.Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” 33 “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked. 34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
Every believer is concerned that they would be found worthy at the end of the age. Apart from a select few like the Mother Mary we know that all Christians are uneasy about whether or not they will be raptured. So this is a very encouraging word, “whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother”. I know it is very hard for many to hear me talk about Bannon's war room but Jesus said "whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother"
5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. 6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
This event exposed their plots to kill Jesus. The end of this age there will be judgement. You will have those who believe in Jesus receiving judgement and you will also have those who plot to kill Jesus receiving judgement. Before that can happen you have to separate them. Today we see these groups being separated. I saw on Youtube many people at these “stop the steal” protests saying they were Democrats, they weren’t there to support Trump rather they were there to support the US constitution and a free and fair election.
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed.
Right now you have to withdraw from the mainstream media and these big tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Instead there are smaller platforms like Rumble that you can use, and other sources of news like Next News, NTD, Sky news, Dailywire, etc. Withdraw from CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NY Times, and guess what, the people will follow you to Rumble and Bannon's War room, for the truth.
8 When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. 9 Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. 10 For he had healed many,so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. 11 Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” 12 But he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him. 13 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. 14 He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach 15 and to have authority to drive out demons. 16 These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter), 17 James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means “sons of thunder”), 18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
Likewise there are some very powerful “preachers” on these platforms. So although many of these are taking a stand for doing good and not for killing, there are also those who are preaching Jesus as well. This is what is exciting when you see the airwaves filling up with these ones who have just recently been sent out by the Lord.
20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
This is funny. Everyone talks about that crazy uncle at Thanksgiving that “is out of his mind”. When my family was celebrating Biden’s “win” I responded that “yes, this is a very exciting election and I have been paying close attention and am very interested to see how it turns out in the end”. That brought a vehement response, I pointed out that CNN and Fox don’t get to call elections, the GSA does. Again, the response was like hitting a hornets nest with a bat, but the kindest thing they might of said is that “he is out of his mind”.
22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.”
Now that is what the mainstream media is saying. The ugly, nasty accusations are off the charts. Their hypocrisy is on full display that they would all rally behind Clinton’s cry “do not concede under any circumstances” and then rail against Trump and portray him as Scarface holed up in the oval office.
23 So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan Drive out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.
Satan is opposing himself. He is opposing what Clinton said. His actions with Hunter Biden’s laptop oppose what he was saying just nine months earlier. His attitude towards large public campaign rallies is completely contradictory from Nov 2 to Nov 4. This is because his end has come. This is it for him, he is Scarface. FTX was not exposed by some plot of Satan, that is his kingdom being divided. Everything that has come out on Covid19 and on Election steal, this is all about his kingdom being divided.
27 In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s house.
During the end of this age the Lord is going to plunder the strong man’s house, that is a reference to the rapture and the Lord coming as a thief. For the lukewarm church the Lord comes as a thief. But first, before the rapture, you must tie up the strong man. Bind him, throw him in prison. That is what we are seeing right now. That is what the “stop the steal” protests are all about. That is what Giuliani and hundreds of affidavits, witness testimonies, and physical evidence are all about.
28 Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
You can say that your crazy uncle has lost his mind, that is fine, you can be forgiven of that. But if you say that everyone needs to ignore 234 signed affidavits, if you say that the rest of the country needs to ignore 71 million people, then there is no forgiveness for that. If you say that Kari Lake's election loss was legitimate despite all the evidence, there is no forgiveness in that.
30 He said this because they were saying, “He has an impure spirit.”
If you say that following the legal, constitutional process to contest the election in the courts is “impure” and a “coup” then there is no forgiveness for that.
31 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived.Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” 33 “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked. 34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
Every believer is concerned that they would be found worthy at the end of the age. Apart from a select few like the Mother Mary we know that all Christians are uneasy about whether or not they will be raptured. So this is a very encouraging word, “whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother”. I know it is very hard for many to hear me talk about Bannon's war room but Jesus said "whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother"
Prepare to meet your God
Amos 4:6 “I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
We saw that during the Great Depression however we are seeing hundreds of food processing plants sabotaged worldwide over the last 2 years as well as some attacks on power transmission stations.
7 “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up. 8 People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
We saw this during the dust bowl and yet this was a very bad year for droughts and floods worldwide.
9 “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
We saw this during the potato famine that brought the Irish to America. We also saw this happen this year with many locusts and other pests attacking the crops.
10 “I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
We saw this during the World Wars, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars and the Spanish Flu, etc. This 2020 Covid pandemic is not over. Watch this:
11 “I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
The AIDS epidemic and these recent fires in California and Australia come to mind. Watch the situation in China right now and you can see this latest plague is coming to the US.
12 “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.” 13 He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord God Almighty is his name.
You can roll all of that into one, from the Great Depression, to the natural calamities, the famines, the wars, the epidemics. We need to reflect not only on our sins but also on the experiences that we have had with the Lord. Have they caused us to appreciate that Jesus is Lord, or have they caused us to become proud and boastful. Did they cause you to turn to God or rather to become hardened towards God? Did we refer to the greatness of God after the war or the greatness of the generation? Therefore the scope and scale of this coming judgement is designed to put an end to our pride and cause us to return to God in humility. Prepare to meet your God. That is the point of this period between the festival of trumpets and the day of atonement, we are to prepare to meet our God. We are going to have this coming plague revealed to us, there will be no way to escape, do not waste time trying to escape our focus needs to be on preparing to meet our God.
Amos 4:6 “I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
We saw that during the Great Depression however we are seeing hundreds of food processing plants sabotaged worldwide over the last 2 years as well as some attacks on power transmission stations.
7 “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up. 8 People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
We saw this during the dust bowl and yet this was a very bad year for droughts and floods worldwide.
9 “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
We saw this during the potato famine that brought the Irish to America. We also saw this happen this year with many locusts and other pests attacking the crops.
10 “I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
We saw this during the World Wars, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars and the Spanish Flu, etc. This 2020 Covid pandemic is not over. Watch this:
11 “I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
The AIDS epidemic and these recent fires in California and Australia come to mind. Watch the situation in China right now and you can see this latest plague is coming to the US.
12 “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.” 13 He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord God Almighty is his name.
You can roll all of that into one, from the Great Depression, to the natural calamities, the famines, the wars, the epidemics. We need to reflect not only on our sins but also on the experiences that we have had with the Lord. Have they caused us to appreciate that Jesus is Lord, or have they caused us to become proud and boastful. Did they cause you to turn to God or rather to become hardened towards God? Did we refer to the greatness of God after the war or the greatness of the generation? Therefore the scope and scale of this coming judgement is designed to put an end to our pride and cause us to return to God in humility. Prepare to meet your God. That is the point of this period between the festival of trumpets and the day of atonement, we are to prepare to meet our God. We are going to have this coming plague revealed to us, there will be no way to escape, do not waste time trying to escape our focus needs to be on preparing to meet our God.
They are not decimated
Amos 5:1 Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you: 2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.” 3 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel: “Your city that marches out a thousand strong will have only a hundred left; your town that marches out a hundred strong will have only ten left.” 4 This is what the Lord says to Israel: “Seek me and live; 5 do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.” 6 Seek the Lord and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
We are preparing to meet the Lord. We began by going over our sins. We then considered some of the things that God has done just in the last 100 years to cause us to return to Him. Now we need to also consider how God treated Israel. We are the Israel above, so the things that happened to Israel are an example to us. They turned justice into bitterness when they demanded that Jesus be crucified. They cast righteousness to the ground. What did God do? Israel fell, never to rise again for 2,000 years as long as they persisted. It wasn’t until the holocaust that Israel returned to the Lord. The description here is not of Israel being decimated. To decimate means to kill one out of ten. No, the description here is that one in ten lives. It is a description of the holocaust. During the holocaust the judgement swept through like a fire. They were burned in a furnace. If we reflect on this history it should make it very clear that God is serious. Do you really need to face the holocaust before you will return to God, seek Him, seek good and live?
Amos 5:1 Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you: 2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.” 3 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel: “Your city that marches out a thousand strong will have only a hundred left; your town that marches out a hundred strong will have only ten left.” 4 This is what the Lord says to Israel: “Seek me and live; 5 do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.” 6 Seek the Lord and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
We are preparing to meet the Lord. We began by going over our sins. We then considered some of the things that God has done just in the last 100 years to cause us to return to Him. Now we need to also consider how God treated Israel. We are the Israel above, so the things that happened to Israel are an example to us. They turned justice into bitterness when they demanded that Jesus be crucified. They cast righteousness to the ground. What did God do? Israel fell, never to rise again for 2,000 years as long as they persisted. It wasn’t until the holocaust that Israel returned to the Lord. The description here is not of Israel being decimated. To decimate means to kill one out of ten. No, the description here is that one in ten lives. It is a description of the holocaust. During the holocaust the judgement swept through like a fire. They were burned in a furnace. If we reflect on this history it should make it very clear that God is serious. Do you really need to face the holocaust before you will return to God, seek Him, seek good and live?
Those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground
Amos 5:7 There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.
There are cases where the victim winds up being the one made to be the criminal. This happened all the time with Jim Crow and the KKK. As far as "casting righteousness to the ground" just look at the recent ruling in the Kari Lake election. They proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the election was fraudulent and yet the judge threw the case out.
8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the Lord is his name.
And now we are reviewing some of the past judgements that God did on the Earth. This is referring to Noah’s flood. We now have geologic evidence that a meteorite struck the Indian ocean (we can see the crater on the ocean floor). This created a huge tsunami which created giant chevrons on the island of Madagascar with fossils from the ocean floor. We can use these to date the event. It would have vaporized a tremendous amount of water that would have gone into the stratosphere, circling the globe, before returning as rain. This rain caused giant floods to sweep down out of the glaciated highlands of the highest mountains. We have evidence of the biggest flood ever coming out of the Himalayas and sweeping across the continent of India. We can tell the water was 30-40 feet deep in this flood. We see the same thing coming out of the Rockies and sweeping across Washington State. This flood also caused sea level to rise, flooding the bosphorus so that the Black Sea which had been cut off from the ocean was flooded. This is a very likely place where Noah built his ark. We also know at this time large ungulates on all the continents went extinct. As a result we have 18 animals suitable for domestication at present, all but 2 of them come from mesopotamia. Because this area had horses, cows, oxen, etc their civilizations became dominant. There are over 100 ancient civilizations that have an account of this event and which also talk about this boat with the animals. God took the waters from the sea and poured them on the land. So then do not be proud, humble yourself before the mighty hand of God.
9 With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin.
There is also the case of God’s judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the future we may see God's judgement come from meteors or with nuclear missiles.
Amos 5:7 There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.
There are cases where the victim winds up being the one made to be the criminal. This happened all the time with Jim Crow and the KKK. As far as "casting righteousness to the ground" just look at the recent ruling in the Kari Lake election. They proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the election was fraudulent and yet the judge threw the case out.
8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the Lord is his name.
And now we are reviewing some of the past judgements that God did on the Earth. This is referring to Noah’s flood. We now have geologic evidence that a meteorite struck the Indian ocean (we can see the crater on the ocean floor). This created a huge tsunami which created giant chevrons on the island of Madagascar with fossils from the ocean floor. We can use these to date the event. It would have vaporized a tremendous amount of water that would have gone into the stratosphere, circling the globe, before returning as rain. This rain caused giant floods to sweep down out of the glaciated highlands of the highest mountains. We have evidence of the biggest flood ever coming out of the Himalayas and sweeping across the continent of India. We can tell the water was 30-40 feet deep in this flood. We see the same thing coming out of the Rockies and sweeping across Washington State. This flood also caused sea level to rise, flooding the bosphorus so that the Black Sea which had been cut off from the ocean was flooded. This is a very likely place where Noah built his ark. We also know at this time large ungulates on all the continents went extinct. As a result we have 18 animals suitable for domestication at present, all but 2 of them come from mesopotamia. Because this area had horses, cows, oxen, etc their civilizations became dominant. There are over 100 ancient civilizations that have an account of this event and which also talk about this boat with the animals. God took the waters from the sea and poured them on the land. So then do not be proud, humble yourself before the mighty hand of God.
9 With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin.
There is also the case of God’s judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the future we may see God's judgement come from meteors or with nuclear missiles.
Proverbs 20:6-13 I wonder what Putin is going to do?
6 Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find?
A lot of people were disheartened by the recent events in the US. But they are missing this key point. At the end of the age the Lord is looking to see if He can find faith. These people like Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani who are being slandered and sued yet are still pursuing the truth, those are faithful people. I believe that those who are raptured will be faithful people whom the Lord has found.
7 The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.
You can’t look at your life simply by what you have been able to amass. If like organized crime you have left a legacy to your children which is a curse you have to consider that. Bernie Madoff was very rich, his kids grew up privileged right until they discovered he was a crook. It was so crushing for his kids to go from privileged elite to despised by one and all that one even committed suicide.
8 When a king sits on his throne to judge, he winnows out all evil with his eyes.
Let’s flip this around, the ones who are winnowing out evil with their eyes are kings. Pelosi, the squad and their ilk did not winnow any evil. They are not kings, they are usurpers. These people doing the investigation whether journalists or lawyers or citizens, they are kings. They have a position, a seat, and they sit on that throne and rule. The way you winnow grain is you take a shovel full and toss it into the air when there is a good breeze and the wind will blow away the chaff. Every day there are journalists like Project Veritas or Revolver or Bannon that are taking a shovel full of grain and tossing it into the air and then with the breath of their reporting they are blowing away the chaff. This is hard work, but let's be real, two years ago very few people in this country saw the election fraud, today it is closer to 70% or more see it. A lot of chaff has been blown away. Two years ago no one saw Fauci and the vaccine they were developing as a lie, again since that time a lot of chaff has been blown away. In the last two years a lot of evil has been winnowed out.
9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin”?
You had better be covered with the blood of Jesus. This is not trivial, if you want to be covered with the Lord’s blood you have to obey the Lord and that includes confessing sins and repenting.
10 Differing weights and differing measures— the Lord detests them both.
The impeachment of Trump is a great example. They want to try Trump for “inciting the riot” because he called for a peaceful protest when in fact you can get quotes from Pelosi, Schumer and Maxine Waters that clearly incite rioting. They impeached Trump for “colluding with Russia” and found that he didn’t yet they ignore the fact that Biden clearly colluded with the Ukraine. Be assured, the Lord detests this.
11 Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?
Again, this is a key principle in forensics, every contact leaves a trace. “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks”. We can see into your heart by the words you speak. Actions speak louder than words. We can also know your heart by your actions. Right now people are wondering what Putin is going to do. Well, what are his actions? He warned Ukraine, massed troops at the border and then invaded. Following this the US blew up his pipeline, helped Ukraine with weapons and intelligence and is sending them over $100 billion in weapons. Russia has warned us, massed troops, tanks and nuclear missiles at the border. I wonder what he is going to do?
12 Ears that hear and eyes that see— the Lord has made them both.
We have the power of observation. You can see a lot if you look.
13 Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.
This is the warning with the Stop the Steal rallies. Wake up or you will grow poor. We have had over 120 attacks on food processing plants in the US and we have been attacked with a bioweapon and we are being threatened with nuclear war from Putin who just today said we were at war with him. If you are awake you will be stockpiling food.
6 Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find?
A lot of people were disheartened by the recent events in the US. But they are missing this key point. At the end of the age the Lord is looking to see if He can find faith. These people like Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani who are being slandered and sued yet are still pursuing the truth, those are faithful people. I believe that those who are raptured will be faithful people whom the Lord has found.
7 The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.
You can’t look at your life simply by what you have been able to amass. If like organized crime you have left a legacy to your children which is a curse you have to consider that. Bernie Madoff was very rich, his kids grew up privileged right until they discovered he was a crook. It was so crushing for his kids to go from privileged elite to despised by one and all that one even committed suicide.
8 When a king sits on his throne to judge, he winnows out all evil with his eyes.
Let’s flip this around, the ones who are winnowing out evil with their eyes are kings. Pelosi, the squad and their ilk did not winnow any evil. They are not kings, they are usurpers. These people doing the investigation whether journalists or lawyers or citizens, they are kings. They have a position, a seat, and they sit on that throne and rule. The way you winnow grain is you take a shovel full and toss it into the air when there is a good breeze and the wind will blow away the chaff. Every day there are journalists like Project Veritas or Revolver or Bannon that are taking a shovel full of grain and tossing it into the air and then with the breath of their reporting they are blowing away the chaff. This is hard work, but let's be real, two years ago very few people in this country saw the election fraud, today it is closer to 70% or more see it. A lot of chaff has been blown away. Two years ago no one saw Fauci and the vaccine they were developing as a lie, again since that time a lot of chaff has been blown away. In the last two years a lot of evil has been winnowed out.
9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin”?
You had better be covered with the blood of Jesus. This is not trivial, if you want to be covered with the Lord’s blood you have to obey the Lord and that includes confessing sins and repenting.
10 Differing weights and differing measures— the Lord detests them both.
The impeachment of Trump is a great example. They want to try Trump for “inciting the riot” because he called for a peaceful protest when in fact you can get quotes from Pelosi, Schumer and Maxine Waters that clearly incite rioting. They impeached Trump for “colluding with Russia” and found that he didn’t yet they ignore the fact that Biden clearly colluded with the Ukraine. Be assured, the Lord detests this.
11 Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?
Again, this is a key principle in forensics, every contact leaves a trace. “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks”. We can see into your heart by the words you speak. Actions speak louder than words. We can also know your heart by your actions. Right now people are wondering what Putin is going to do. Well, what are his actions? He warned Ukraine, massed troops at the border and then invaded. Following this the US blew up his pipeline, helped Ukraine with weapons and intelligence and is sending them over $100 billion in weapons. Russia has warned us, massed troops, tanks and nuclear missiles at the border. I wonder what he is going to do?
12 Ears that hear and eyes that see— the Lord has made them both.
We have the power of observation. You can see a lot if you look.
13 Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.
This is the warning with the Stop the Steal rallies. Wake up or you will grow poor. We have had over 120 attacks on food processing plants in the US and we have been attacked with a bioweapon and we are being threatened with nuclear war from Putin who just today said we were at war with him. If you are awake you will be stockpiling food.
Those who detest the ones who tell the truth
Amos 5:10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.
It is important to understand this. Not everyone is "asleep". Some people actually are "in on it". They do some small task, perhaps they were paid to harvest ballots and stuff them in the box, or maybe it was a judge who was bribed, or someone who was elected fraudulently. They detest it when people tell the truth because that can bring down the entire house of cards.
11 You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
Often the poor are not that well educated. They may not understand why there is inflation, but that inflation is an incredible tax on the poor. But wait you say, inflation would be a tax on everyone, right? Wrong. The rich have assets, they have houses, stocks, real estate, things that will rise with inflation. You buy a house for 20k 60 years ago and now it is worth 400k. You weren't hurt by inflation. So what causes inflation? The government prints money they don't have. If money is created by GDP then you won't get inflation. For example, let's say I have a job and I want to buy a car. I get a loan for 25k for this car. Poof, the government just created 25k that wasn't there, however, it is based on the work that I will be doing over the next few years. So that wasn't created out of nothing, it was created out of the GDP. The problem is the government can make money that is not tied to the GDP, just print it. When they do that everyone's money decreases in value. Now most of our money is in US Treasury bills and these for the most part are held by foreign countries. Consider "our grain" to be our GDP, our gross domestic product. When they print money they just imposed a tax on your grain and the whole world is bearing this burden. The US has 7% inflation and Sri Lanka has 70% inflation. Now not all Americans are stupid, some realize the reason we live at such a higher standard of living compared to the rest of the world is because of this and they detest anyone who tells the truth about this scam.
12 For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
You and I do not know how many are the offenses. We may know of some of them and we may suspect others, but we don't know the full extent. Only the Lord Jesus knows that. We look at the January 6th defendants and it is obvious that they are being deprived of justice in the courts. We see the FTX president put up $4 million as collateral to cover $250 million bail and we wonder what is going on, the double standard seems very blatant and brazen.
13 Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil.
It is stunning to me how naive so many Christians are. If you were a prosecutor or an investigator or a journalist, by all means report on these crimes. But there are people who don't know anything, cannot in any way contribute to the guilty parties being charged or convicted, and they talk non stop. If you were in a war you would keep your head down in the fox hole, but these ones are jumping up and down and saying "shoot me".
14 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
We have been commissioned to preach the gospel. We have been commissioned to be a witness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do that and the Lord will be with you, just as you say He is.
15 Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
In the US you get the justice you can afford. If you can afford the best lawyers, teams of lawyers, like large corporations, then you can abuse the poor. Dupont did this with the Teflon scandal. The cigarette companies did this. The NFL did this with CTE. There are many, many examples of corporations using their team of lawyers in a hateful and detestable way. The Lord knows every one. Think about Schindler’s list. Schindler gave a very big bribe to get his factory up and running and to use slave labor (those who were destined to go to the death camps). He was buying them to save them alive, but it revealed how corrupt and how evil the German “justice” system was. He was an example of someone who did repent, he did return to the Lord, he did seek good and not evil, and he did live.
Amos 5:10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.
It is important to understand this. Not everyone is "asleep". Some people actually are "in on it". They do some small task, perhaps they were paid to harvest ballots and stuff them in the box, or maybe it was a judge who was bribed, or someone who was elected fraudulently. They detest it when people tell the truth because that can bring down the entire house of cards.
11 You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
Often the poor are not that well educated. They may not understand why there is inflation, but that inflation is an incredible tax on the poor. But wait you say, inflation would be a tax on everyone, right? Wrong. The rich have assets, they have houses, stocks, real estate, things that will rise with inflation. You buy a house for 20k 60 years ago and now it is worth 400k. You weren't hurt by inflation. So what causes inflation? The government prints money they don't have. If money is created by GDP then you won't get inflation. For example, let's say I have a job and I want to buy a car. I get a loan for 25k for this car. Poof, the government just created 25k that wasn't there, however, it is based on the work that I will be doing over the next few years. So that wasn't created out of nothing, it was created out of the GDP. The problem is the government can make money that is not tied to the GDP, just print it. When they do that everyone's money decreases in value. Now most of our money is in US Treasury bills and these for the most part are held by foreign countries. Consider "our grain" to be our GDP, our gross domestic product. When they print money they just imposed a tax on your grain and the whole world is bearing this burden. The US has 7% inflation and Sri Lanka has 70% inflation. Now not all Americans are stupid, some realize the reason we live at such a higher standard of living compared to the rest of the world is because of this and they detest anyone who tells the truth about this scam.
12 For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
You and I do not know how many are the offenses. We may know of some of them and we may suspect others, but we don't know the full extent. Only the Lord Jesus knows that. We look at the January 6th defendants and it is obvious that they are being deprived of justice in the courts. We see the FTX president put up $4 million as collateral to cover $250 million bail and we wonder what is going on, the double standard seems very blatant and brazen.
13 Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil.
It is stunning to me how naive so many Christians are. If you were a prosecutor or an investigator or a journalist, by all means report on these crimes. But there are people who don't know anything, cannot in any way contribute to the guilty parties being charged or convicted, and they talk non stop. If you were in a war you would keep your head down in the fox hole, but these ones are jumping up and down and saying "shoot me".
14 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
We have been commissioned to preach the gospel. We have been commissioned to be a witness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do that and the Lord will be with you, just as you say He is.
15 Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
In the US you get the justice you can afford. If you can afford the best lawyers, teams of lawyers, like large corporations, then you can abuse the poor. Dupont did this with the Teflon scandal. The cigarette companies did this. The NFL did this with CTE. There are many, many examples of corporations using their team of lawyers in a hateful and detestable way. The Lord knows every one. Think about Schindler’s list. Schindler gave a very big bribe to get his factory up and running and to use slave labor (those who were destined to go to the death camps). He was buying them to save them alive, but it revealed how corrupt and how evil the German “justice” system was. He was an example of someone who did repent, he did return to the Lord, he did seek good and not evil, and he did live.
Proverbs 20:14-17 Lord fill their mouth with gravel
14 “It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer— then goes off and boasts about the purchase.
I love to do return on investment analysis. I recently bought a bicycle and the cost was $3600 when you added in all the accessories. The people checking me out were worried, but I was quite happy. Why? I had done the Return on Investment analysis and calculated that riding this bicycle instead of driving my car to work would give me a 48% return on investment at the least, and perhaps many times greater than that at the most (if it allowed me to work an extra year). I used to work as a stock broker and it is very difficult if not impossible to find any investment that gives you a 48% return on investment. But, wouldn’t a cheaper bicycle do even better? It has been my experience that at 6:30 am I need motivation to drive off to work on my bicycle, remembering that I paid so much is one motivation, the other is having a really good bicycle that is a pleasure to ride. If you buy a cheap bicycle that you hate and never ride you don’t get any return on your investment.
15 Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.
I shared my spreadsheet with the bike shop. I told them they should use this to sell better bikes and more expensive bikes. Why? I don’t want them to go out of business.
16 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.
What is going on with our border? What is going on with NY which is going to give $15,000 to illegal aliens who lost their jobs during the pandemic. I suspect this is a hoax, how does an illegal alien provide proof of a lost job and a loss of $15,000 if they are undocumented? My guess is NY is trying to get all the illegal aliens coming across the border to come to NY. Why? Because all the residents are fleeing to states like Florida.
17 Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.
Let’s hope so. Biden, Pelosi and Schumer are all rejoicing and feasting writing trillion dollar bills. They are clearly acting like the food gained by fraud is sweet, but let’s pray that the Lord honors His word that in the end their mouth is full of gravel.
14 “It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer— then goes off and boasts about the purchase.
I love to do return on investment analysis. I recently bought a bicycle and the cost was $3600 when you added in all the accessories. The people checking me out were worried, but I was quite happy. Why? I had done the Return on Investment analysis and calculated that riding this bicycle instead of driving my car to work would give me a 48% return on investment at the least, and perhaps many times greater than that at the most (if it allowed me to work an extra year). I used to work as a stock broker and it is very difficult if not impossible to find any investment that gives you a 48% return on investment. But, wouldn’t a cheaper bicycle do even better? It has been my experience that at 6:30 am I need motivation to drive off to work on my bicycle, remembering that I paid so much is one motivation, the other is having a really good bicycle that is a pleasure to ride. If you buy a cheap bicycle that you hate and never ride you don’t get any return on your investment.
15 Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.
I shared my spreadsheet with the bike shop. I told them they should use this to sell better bikes and more expensive bikes. Why? I don’t want them to go out of business.
16 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.
What is going on with our border? What is going on with NY which is going to give $15,000 to illegal aliens who lost their jobs during the pandemic. I suspect this is a hoax, how does an illegal alien provide proof of a lost job and a loss of $15,000 if they are undocumented? My guess is NY is trying to get all the illegal aliens coming across the border to come to NY. Why? Because all the residents are fleeing to states like Florida.
17 Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.
Let’s hope so. Biden, Pelosi and Schumer are all rejoicing and feasting writing trillion dollar bills. They are clearly acting like the food gained by fraud is sweet, but let’s pray that the Lord honors His word that in the end their mouth is full of gravel.
His interpretation is wildly different from others. He says that this is based on revelation that he received after memorizing the book of Revelation.
I post this here not because I subscribe to this interpretation nor should this be viewed as my "seal of approval" to this interpretation. No I post this here to demonstrate how wildly different various interpretations are.
What I think is most valuable is to get the various principles. For example, it is a harvest, and firstfruits will be the first fruit that is harvested.
The obvious question that I never hear him address is what about the people who were raised from the dead at the time Jesus was resurrected. Standard Bible teaching is that the feast of firstfruits has already been fulfilled.
A second issue is that you have first fruits from every harvest, barley is different from wheat which is different from olives or figs.
His definition of rapture is to be taken before being tested. That seems to me to be a very childish view of the rapture. Christians have been tried and tested throughout the entire age of grace. If being tried and tested only took place during the tribulation then what about "the dead in Christ", they were never tried or tested?
After all, what is the age of grace? It is the church age. One recent definition of the age of grace is that it is a grace period on the debt we owe due to sin. You have this period of time to receive the payment Jesus made on the cross to redeem you from sin. But when the age of grace ends, then you have the 70th week where the Lord is dealing with Israel. In typology I would liken that to Leah gets married to Jacob and gets her week before Rachel gets married. Leah represents the Gentile bride and so it would not make sense if the church is here for the 70th week.
If he has some special revelation that is fine, but why doesn't he address all these issues that standard eschatology has?
To me the key principle here is to
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
We should recognize that there have been many wonderful brothers and sisters who have gone before us and studied these things.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
I have no issue with him saying he got a revelation or vision or the Lord spoke to him.
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
But all the more reason why you should be in the form of a servant, read what others have concluded and if you have this special revelation then address what they have written and explain the error. This is why so few people listen to him. The whole time you have these questions and he never addresses them.
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
No one likes criticism, no one likes to be critiqued. But no one likes to eat raw steak either. If this teaching were critiqued it would be cooked. Until he addresses the key issues that so many other very good bible teachers have with this doctrine no one will take him seriously.
I post this here not because I subscribe to this interpretation nor should this be viewed as my "seal of approval" to this interpretation. No I post this here to demonstrate how wildly different various interpretations are.
What I think is most valuable is to get the various principles. For example, it is a harvest, and firstfruits will be the first fruit that is harvested.
The obvious question that I never hear him address is what about the people who were raised from the dead at the time Jesus was resurrected. Standard Bible teaching is that the feast of firstfruits has already been fulfilled.
A second issue is that you have first fruits from every harvest, barley is different from wheat which is different from olives or figs.
His definition of rapture is to be taken before being tested. That seems to me to be a very childish view of the rapture. Christians have been tried and tested throughout the entire age of grace. If being tried and tested only took place during the tribulation then what about "the dead in Christ", they were never tried or tested?
After all, what is the age of grace? It is the church age. One recent definition of the age of grace is that it is a grace period on the debt we owe due to sin. You have this period of time to receive the payment Jesus made on the cross to redeem you from sin. But when the age of grace ends, then you have the 70th week where the Lord is dealing with Israel. In typology I would liken that to Leah gets married to Jacob and gets her week before Rachel gets married. Leah represents the Gentile bride and so it would not make sense if the church is here for the 70th week.
If he has some special revelation that is fine, but why doesn't he address all these issues that standard eschatology has?
To me the key principle here is to
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
We should recognize that there have been many wonderful brothers and sisters who have gone before us and studied these things.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
I have no issue with him saying he got a revelation or vision or the Lord spoke to him.
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
But all the more reason why you should be in the form of a servant, read what others have concluded and if you have this special revelation then address what they have written and explain the error. This is why so few people listen to him. The whole time you have these questions and he never addresses them.
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
No one likes criticism, no one likes to be critiqued. But no one likes to eat raw steak either. If this teaching were critiqued it would be cooked. Until he addresses the key issues that so many other very good bible teachers have with this doctrine no one will take him seriously.
Look around, the day of the Lord is here
16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says: “There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail. 17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the Lord.
Remember the Passover. Imagine how terrible the wailing will be when you realize you were warned, you saw this happen in the past, you were told it was coming, you were told what to do, and yet you did not put the blood of the lamb of God on your doorpost? You did not take Jesus as your Passover feast. You were outside the house when the avenging angel passed through your midst. The town square today is Twitter, GETTR, Rumble, Youtube, Facebook, TruthSocial, etc. Who will summon these farmers and professional mourners? This sounds like a Senate hearing or Congressional hearing. What are the vineyards? That would be where people go to drink the wine of this world and get drunk. Bars, restaurants, movie theaters, and all other theaters. We are seeing all this happen today. For the last two years the internet and social media has been filled with wailing about crime rising, an open border, and the vaccine being a kill shot. We are also seeing that 40% of these small businesses like bars and restaurants are on the verge of bankruptcy and the producers of films like Disney and Netflix have seen a huge decline in their stock price.
The Day of the Lord
18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light. 19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
I watched the news this morning about widespread looting in Buffalo. It was amazing, only a day after the storm and before the roads were really clear the stores were cleaned out. I saw them pick clean something that looked like a 7/11, and I saw them streaming out of a Dollar store with garbage bags full of stuff, and then there was a Walmart that had been cleaned out. This is what it will be immediately after this Day of the Lord begins. Now what happens to the people living in these neighborhoods, the stores will not restock, they have no where to go, and already there were gun fights in the street.
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
We have seen multiple attacks on our power transmission stations. My feeling is this is simply "rattling the cage", getting an idea of what they need to do to knock them out. We have had multiple dreams, visions and prophecies concerning a total blackout across the entire US. We have also heard of three days of darkness due to a demonic invasion of the earth. Without power there is no water, there is no gasoline. Even if you wanted to flee how far can you get on half a tank of gas? Are you really going to be safer in the middle of nowhere?
21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
He does not say "my" festivals which is how God refers to them in Leviticus, He says "your" festivals. Christmas and Easter are not His festivals, they belong to organized Christianity and they are a stench to Him.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. 23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
This is what the Lord said. If you come before the altar and realize someone has something against you go and be reconciled first, then make your offering. This is justice, this is righteousness. Without that God will not accept your offerings and He can't stand the noise of your songs. First be reconciled with those you have wronged.
25 “Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel? 26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god— which you made for yourselves. 27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.
True religion is to visit widows and orphans in their affliction and to keep yourself unspotted from the world. If your religious festivals are all show and entertainment without this reality, then God hates it. This is what Jesus condemned when He said these religious leaders were making long prayers for a pretense, while at the same time stealing widows houses. That is precisely what happened in the Mortgage crisis. Right now the poor feel like they are running from lions and bears, only to get bitten by snakes in their house. As you have done it will be done to you. So then when you behave like that you are not worshipping God, you are lifting up a shrine to an idolatrous king. For 2,000 years the Jews were exiles. Christians have been warned that they too could spend a thousand years in outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. When do Christians lift up the star of their idols? Surely that is reference to the star on the top of Christmas trees.
16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says: “There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail. 17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the Lord.
Remember the Passover. Imagine how terrible the wailing will be when you realize you were warned, you saw this happen in the past, you were told it was coming, you were told what to do, and yet you did not put the blood of the lamb of God on your doorpost? You did not take Jesus as your Passover feast. You were outside the house when the avenging angel passed through your midst. The town square today is Twitter, GETTR, Rumble, Youtube, Facebook, TruthSocial, etc. Who will summon these farmers and professional mourners? This sounds like a Senate hearing or Congressional hearing. What are the vineyards? That would be where people go to drink the wine of this world and get drunk. Bars, restaurants, movie theaters, and all other theaters. We are seeing all this happen today. For the last two years the internet and social media has been filled with wailing about crime rising, an open border, and the vaccine being a kill shot. We are also seeing that 40% of these small businesses like bars and restaurants are on the verge of bankruptcy and the producers of films like Disney and Netflix have seen a huge decline in their stock price.
The Day of the Lord
18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light. 19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
I watched the news this morning about widespread looting in Buffalo. It was amazing, only a day after the storm and before the roads were really clear the stores were cleaned out. I saw them pick clean something that looked like a 7/11, and I saw them streaming out of a Dollar store with garbage bags full of stuff, and then there was a Walmart that had been cleaned out. This is what it will be immediately after this Day of the Lord begins. Now what happens to the people living in these neighborhoods, the stores will not restock, they have no where to go, and already there were gun fights in the street.
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
We have seen multiple attacks on our power transmission stations. My feeling is this is simply "rattling the cage", getting an idea of what they need to do to knock them out. We have had multiple dreams, visions and prophecies concerning a total blackout across the entire US. We have also heard of three days of darkness due to a demonic invasion of the earth. Without power there is no water, there is no gasoline. Even if you wanted to flee how far can you get on half a tank of gas? Are you really going to be safer in the middle of nowhere?
21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
He does not say "my" festivals which is how God refers to them in Leviticus, He says "your" festivals. Christmas and Easter are not His festivals, they belong to organized Christianity and they are a stench to Him.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. 23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
This is what the Lord said. If you come before the altar and realize someone has something against you go and be reconciled first, then make your offering. This is justice, this is righteousness. Without that God will not accept your offerings and He can't stand the noise of your songs. First be reconciled with those you have wronged.
25 “Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel? 26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god— which you made for yourselves. 27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.
True religion is to visit widows and orphans in their affliction and to keep yourself unspotted from the world. If your religious festivals are all show and entertainment without this reality, then God hates it. This is what Jesus condemned when He said these religious leaders were making long prayers for a pretense, while at the same time stealing widows houses. That is precisely what happened in the Mortgage crisis. Right now the poor feel like they are running from lions and bears, only to get bitten by snakes in their house. As you have done it will be done to you. So then when you behave like that you are not worshipping God, you are lifting up a shrine to an idolatrous king. For 2,000 years the Jews were exiles. Christians have been warned that they too could spend a thousand years in outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. When do Christians lift up the star of their idols? Surely that is reference to the star on the top of Christmas trees.
To those who are complacent in Zion
Amos 6:1 Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
The issue here is complacent and feeling secure. Many times I have considered what would I do if I were a Jew in Germany as Hitler took power. I have thought that the only thing to do would be to flee to the US while there was still time. But Amos here includes “to whom the people of Israel come”. You have a responsibility to take care of others, fleeing is equivalent to shirking your responsibility. Imagine a rabbi flees to the US and later learns everyone under his care was executed in a concentration camp. That would be a terrible burden of guilt.
Another common refrain you hear from many is there is nothing we can do, similar to "no one knows the day or hour" as an excuse for not watching. This does not say that there is woe to those who are not complacent. There is not woe to those who are on their knees praying, or in the streets evangelizing, or on the internet testifying. The woe is to those who feel secure, but what about those who don't feel secure and are preparing for the worst? If you heed the Lord's warnings that famine is coming and an economic collapse is coming, doesn't say there is woe to you. I watched all social order collapse in Buffalo in 24 hours of this blizzard. This is what will happen in all the big cities. I used to live in NYC, if you tried to evacuate three days after a disaster you would never get out. You would come to come stop light or get stuck in traffic and then gangs would attack the car and rob you. The streets would be so dangerous you can forget about getting food or water after the disaster. At that point the streets will be controlled by armed gangs. After one day the inner city becomes a horrible jungle. But what happens after a week? They aren't going to remain somewhere that has already been picked clean. They will move on to the wealthier neighborhoods. The police and private security do a very good job of keeping these neighborhoods safe under normal circumstances, but after a week none of them will be working. There won't be any gas in their cars, their families will be starving and in great danger if they aren't there guarding their family, and the police will become the best trained and best equipped gang that will start roving and looting. Now those cops and private security aren't going to loot the inner city, that place is poor, it will be a jungle, and it will have already been picked clean. No, they will go to these wealthy mansions in gated communities.
Now cops are not going to leave witnesses that know who they are. They will disconnect the security cameras and eliminate all witnesses.
Amos 6:1 Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
The issue here is complacent and feeling secure. Many times I have considered what would I do if I were a Jew in Germany as Hitler took power. I have thought that the only thing to do would be to flee to the US while there was still time. But Amos here includes “to whom the people of Israel come”. You have a responsibility to take care of others, fleeing is equivalent to shirking your responsibility. Imagine a rabbi flees to the US and later learns everyone under his care was executed in a concentration camp. That would be a terrible burden of guilt.
Another common refrain you hear from many is there is nothing we can do, similar to "no one knows the day or hour" as an excuse for not watching. This does not say that there is woe to those who are not complacent. There is not woe to those who are on their knees praying, or in the streets evangelizing, or on the internet testifying. The woe is to those who feel secure, but what about those who don't feel secure and are preparing for the worst? If you heed the Lord's warnings that famine is coming and an economic collapse is coming, doesn't say there is woe to you. I watched all social order collapse in Buffalo in 24 hours of this blizzard. This is what will happen in all the big cities. I used to live in NYC, if you tried to evacuate three days after a disaster you would never get out. You would come to come stop light or get stuck in traffic and then gangs would attack the car and rob you. The streets would be so dangerous you can forget about getting food or water after the disaster. At that point the streets will be controlled by armed gangs. After one day the inner city becomes a horrible jungle. But what happens after a week? They aren't going to remain somewhere that has already been picked clean. They will move on to the wealthier neighborhoods. The police and private security do a very good job of keeping these neighborhoods safe under normal circumstances, but after a week none of them will be working. There won't be any gas in their cars, their families will be starving and in great danger if they aren't there guarding their family, and the police will become the best trained and best equipped gang that will start roving and looting. Now those cops and private security aren't going to loot the inner city, that place is poor, it will be a jungle, and it will have already been picked clean. No, they will go to these wealthy mansions in gated communities.
Now cops are not going to leave witnesses that know who they are. They will disconnect the security cameras and eliminate all witnesses.
Mark 4 Seeing but never perceiving
1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.
What an amazing scene! At the time of Jesus they had amphitheaters where the acoustics were excellent. This is not how the rich and elites would hold a town meeting. This is what the tribulation is all about, strip everyone of all the extraneous garbage till they are reduced to going out in the wilderness by a lake and listening the word of God from someone in a row boat.
2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
Do not get discouraged if some of the seeds get eaten by the birds. However, I have to wonder about this farmer, maybe if he helped pull a few weeds some of these seeds would have done better. I can understand that some of these rocky places don’t have much soil, not the best place to grow, but couldn’t the farmer bring some mulch, use a little irrigation? My point is that as Christians we have seen all of this, we see the censors and other attempts to snatch the seed from you, but I feel that is on you. If you know that they lied to you about the Hunter Biden laptop why are you still listening to them? If you know that NY Times lied about having a top level cabinet official as a “deep throat” why do you still listen to them? Adam Schiff lied during the first impeachment, why do you still listen to him? Fauci lied, why do you still listen to him? At some point you need to take responsibility for whether or not these seeds grew in you.
9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.” 10 When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. 11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables 12 so that, “‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”
This seems unfair. How is this righteous judgement? Well, suppose a person does do their research, but not to perceive but rather so that they could not perceive. All of their arguments and questions are not so they could see, hear, or understand but rather so that they could not understand. I have seen this many times. For example a person recently asked me why I wasn’t vaccinated. That could be an honest question, maybe they are questioning whether they should get the vaccine. So I told them. They responded with all kinds of nonsense. But again, my thought was they are probably just regurgitating what they have been told, they could still be legitimately seeking the truth. So I gave them a list of ten logical questions I had concerning the virus and the vaccine that I wanted answered first. They responded in an ugly, accusatory way that I was trying to avoid their questions. I pointed out that I have been open with them, answered their questions so far but they are the one who has blown off my ten questions. They responded, “sorry, I didn’t see them”. It was an email with a big bold underlined headline that said “Ten logical and reasonable questions” followed by the ten questions listed 1-10. To say they didn’t see it meant they don’t read my responses. That is when it became very clear there was nothing legitimate about their questions. The Lord doesn’t get Himself tangled up in all this mess, rather he gives them a parable and they will be more than happy to use that to make sure they never perceive and never understand. We know why this is, it is because their heart is far from the Lord. We know that God desires all men to be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth but some people come to the Lord and that is not their intention at all.
13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?
Please pray over this! This is a crucial revelation, as a young Christians I prayed a lot over this and the fellowship I was in shared a lot on this. We realized that the word of God is living and operative and every word applies to us. Yes, I can read the Bible like a historian, that is OK. Yes, I can look at it scientifically, that is OK. I can break it into dispensations and look at like one dispensation to these people and another dispensation to those. That is all fine and dandy. But if you want to understand this parable or any parable you have to apply this word to your own life and your own experience.
14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
There are people who are like those along a path. They are like people who sit and watch mainstream television and are not interested in getting any word in too deeply, just skate along the surface. Don't be a person where everyone tramples and if you had a little word from God sprout up you know it will be trampled by the first ten or twenty people to walk by. Some are like rocky places, we call them manic depressants, they get all excited about something one day and the next they are all withered up. On the surface you seem to have good soil, but right below the surface you have a stony heart and hidden sins. Others are like those who live in the thorns, we call them ADHD, they have so many things going on they can’t stay focused for more than a few minutes. There are a lot of distractions, we need to learn to turn them off and get into the word. Yes, you can hear testimonies and messages on the internet and yes it can be very helpful. But at some point every day you need to get into the word yourself, no distractions. When I was a new Christian I would listen to messages from people I trusted, every week the same amount of time, I would also read one spiritual book at a time until I finished it. But the majority of my time was spent reading the Bible. I read the Bible cover to cover in a few months. By the time I had been in the church for 8 years I was asked to calculate how many times. I calculated that I had read the Bible cover to cover 25 times while I had read the books in the bible that we had gone over in trainings (about 20 books at that time) at least 100 times. I get it that not everyone will do that, but to not have read through the Bible at least 8 times in 8 years, that does not make sense to me.
1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.
What an amazing scene! At the time of Jesus they had amphitheaters where the acoustics were excellent. This is not how the rich and elites would hold a town meeting. This is what the tribulation is all about, strip everyone of all the extraneous garbage till they are reduced to going out in the wilderness by a lake and listening the word of God from someone in a row boat.
2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
Do not get discouraged if some of the seeds get eaten by the birds. However, I have to wonder about this farmer, maybe if he helped pull a few weeds some of these seeds would have done better. I can understand that some of these rocky places don’t have much soil, not the best place to grow, but couldn’t the farmer bring some mulch, use a little irrigation? My point is that as Christians we have seen all of this, we see the censors and other attempts to snatch the seed from you, but I feel that is on you. If you know that they lied to you about the Hunter Biden laptop why are you still listening to them? If you know that NY Times lied about having a top level cabinet official as a “deep throat” why do you still listen to them? Adam Schiff lied during the first impeachment, why do you still listen to him? Fauci lied, why do you still listen to him? At some point you need to take responsibility for whether or not these seeds grew in you.
9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.” 10 When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. 11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables 12 so that, “‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”
This seems unfair. How is this righteous judgement? Well, suppose a person does do their research, but not to perceive but rather so that they could not perceive. All of their arguments and questions are not so they could see, hear, or understand but rather so that they could not understand. I have seen this many times. For example a person recently asked me why I wasn’t vaccinated. That could be an honest question, maybe they are questioning whether they should get the vaccine. So I told them. They responded with all kinds of nonsense. But again, my thought was they are probably just regurgitating what they have been told, they could still be legitimately seeking the truth. So I gave them a list of ten logical questions I had concerning the virus and the vaccine that I wanted answered first. They responded in an ugly, accusatory way that I was trying to avoid their questions. I pointed out that I have been open with them, answered their questions so far but they are the one who has blown off my ten questions. They responded, “sorry, I didn’t see them”. It was an email with a big bold underlined headline that said “Ten logical and reasonable questions” followed by the ten questions listed 1-10. To say they didn’t see it meant they don’t read my responses. That is when it became very clear there was nothing legitimate about their questions. The Lord doesn’t get Himself tangled up in all this mess, rather he gives them a parable and they will be more than happy to use that to make sure they never perceive and never understand. We know why this is, it is because their heart is far from the Lord. We know that God desires all men to be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth but some people come to the Lord and that is not their intention at all.
13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?
Please pray over this! This is a crucial revelation, as a young Christians I prayed a lot over this and the fellowship I was in shared a lot on this. We realized that the word of God is living and operative and every word applies to us. Yes, I can read the Bible like a historian, that is OK. Yes, I can look at it scientifically, that is OK. I can break it into dispensations and look at like one dispensation to these people and another dispensation to those. That is all fine and dandy. But if you want to understand this parable or any parable you have to apply this word to your own life and your own experience.
14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
There are people who are like those along a path. They are like people who sit and watch mainstream television and are not interested in getting any word in too deeply, just skate along the surface. Don't be a person where everyone tramples and if you had a little word from God sprout up you know it will be trampled by the first ten or twenty people to walk by. Some are like rocky places, we call them manic depressants, they get all excited about something one day and the next they are all withered up. On the surface you seem to have good soil, but right below the surface you have a stony heart and hidden sins. Others are like those who live in the thorns, we call them ADHD, they have so many things going on they can’t stay focused for more than a few minutes. There are a lot of distractions, we need to learn to turn them off and get into the word. Yes, you can hear testimonies and messages on the internet and yes it can be very helpful. But at some point every day you need to get into the word yourself, no distractions. When I was a new Christian I would listen to messages from people I trusted, every week the same amount of time, I would also read one spiritual book at a time until I finished it. But the majority of my time was spent reading the Bible. I read the Bible cover to cover in a few months. By the time I had been in the church for 8 years I was asked to calculate how many times. I calculated that I had read the Bible cover to cover 25 times while I had read the books in the bible that we had gone over in trainings (about 20 books at that time) at least 100 times. I get it that not everyone will do that, but to not have read through the Bible at least 8 times in 8 years, that does not make sense to me.