Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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The Mark of the Beast

It occurred to me recently that there have been many antichrists. Yes, at the end of the Age there will be "The Antichrist" but prior to that we will have had many small letter a antichrists. I think all would agree that Hitler is an example of a small letter a antichrist and calling him "the beast" is a fair description.

So I thought, what about Hitler, what was "the mark of Hitler"? Of course there was the nazi symbol and all that that implied. On the other hand he required all the Jews to wear a star of David to mark them out to make it easier to place them into ghettos and from there into concentration camps. So in the same way those that did not embrace the mark of the beast at the time of Hitler were not able to buy or sell.

That, I think is in the spirit of the mark of the beast though I suspect it will be more. It could be a vaccine if it marks you out as belonging to the Antichrist, but the present vaccine does not do that. Now you can imagine that the world moves to a digital currency and they want the RFID chip injected into each person and if you refuse you will become a pariah just like the Jews in Nazi Germany. So the illogical emphasis and stress on the vaccine could certainly be justified as this could very quickly become the mark of the beast.

Still, at this moment getting the vaccine only means you are compliant and obedient without questioning. It doesn't mean you have allied yourself with the Nazis or with Hitler or with the Antichrist.

 

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Proverbs 8:6-9 How do you know who to listen to?

There are a whole lot of people screaming and trying to be heard, no one has time to listen to all them so how do you decide?

6 Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say;

The first reason we should listen to someone is because they have trustworthy things to say. The Washington Post, NY Times, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube have all had to retract their claim that the Pandemic came from nature and was not created in a lab. They are not trustworthy, don't listen to them.

I open my lips to speak what is right.

When people are vilified who “speak what is right” you now know that not only was it right but the truth they spoke was “over the target”. In contrast many of these "mainstream media" like CNN and MSNBC fill their shows with trivial garbage that is not news and when so many momentous things are happening it isn't right to be wasting people's time with it.

7 My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness.

You cannot possibly discern wisdom if you are clueless about wickedness. Why would WAPO, NY Times, Twitter, and Facebook all knowingly speak words that are not true? There is some form of wickedness at play here. They have sold themselves to do wickedness. Think of how they pushed the Russia collusion hoax for two years, dropped it as soon as we learned that the real culprits were Clinton and Obama, and then banned the story about Hunter Biden's laptop which was proof of Biden's collusion.

8 All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse.

All of them, not some of them. NY Times is called “the paper of record”. Not for me, not anymore. My dad used to be a vice president there, I don’t say this lightly. When you find a news source that is operating in a crooked or perverse way, you have to cross them off the list otherwise you will suffer loss.

9 To the discerning all of them are right; they are upright to those who have found knowledge.

“To the discerning”. Yes, it does take a certain amount of work. I get it, we are all doing our jobs, don’t have a lot of time to spend getting the news, so who has time to do this “discerning”? I was commuting back and forth to work and listened to the news. I wanted to know the outcome of the Mueller investigation, what did he find out, how come it seemed so certain they would something to convict with and yet they didn’t? However, every time I turned on CNN it was always the same thing “orange man bad”. There was no knowledge. I could listen for 30 minutes a day for a month and learn absolutely nothing. So I stopped wasting my time with them.

This will become exponentially worse after the rapture. You will be forbidden to say that it was the rapture, or that Jesus is Lord, or preach the gospel under pain of death. As far as they are concerned it will kill two birds with one stone. There are many who are in power who think the ideal population for the Earth is 500 million. To kill 7 billion is no big deal to them. Hence the Pandemic, the wars, and yes chopping off heads of Christians. Nero is a type of the Antichrist and Hitler was a type of the Antichrist and so was Stalin and Mao. They all had one thing in common, they had no qualms about killing millions of people, especially Jews and Christians.

 

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Exodus 8 -- Frogs, lice and flies

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Sounds like something Calvin would do in the comics “Calvin and Hobbes”. So, what are these frogs that are everywhere? A plague of frogs. These are idolatrous spirits associated with the Nile river, the world’s economy. For example, I did a little search on Ebay, just typed in New York Giants to see what I would get. All of these things have the giants logo on them: Jersey, Shorts, hat, cup, tie, umbrella, jacket, helmets, gaiters, decals, picture frames, boxing gloves, flags, t-shirts, apron, beach towel, polo shirt, facemask, pacifiers, necklace, ring, flip flops, sunglasses, lanyard, pants, hoodies, caps, mug, watch, license plate, photos, footballs, jigsaw puzzle, wallet, steering wheel cover, cupcake baking cups, tape dispenser, toddlers cheerleading dress, gloves, blankets, slippers, ring, bumper sticker, duffel bag, glass, wristbands, salt and pepper shakers, teddy bear, rain coat, oven mitt, earrings, underwear, magnets, scarf, bowl, koozie cooler, floor mats, socks, long johns, bobblehead, halter top, pendant, pillow, halloween bucket, bracelet, toy truck, flask, lunch bag, key chain, poncho, billiard balls, coin set, bathrobe, shoe laces, gnome, pajamas, water bottle, sneakers, xmas ornament, night light, collectors series empty coke can, money clip, tire valve stem cap, pins, coasters, inflatable pumpkin, stapler, playing cards, car seat covers. The world’s economy has brought forth idolatrous junk abundantly. They are on the people, they are on the servants, in the kitchen, on the car, etc.

11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.

This pandemic is having a very big impact on sports, viewership is down 30% and of course attendance is down to 0. Take the screaming fans out of the picture and all of a sudden a bunch of middle aged men playing basketball in a gym doesn’t look that entertaining.

18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

The NBA tried to pretend that they were “woke” when it came to human rights. The problem was much of this junk that they sell is made in sweatshops. Hard to take a moral high road against human rights abuses when you are a modern day slave owner. You want to accuse others of human rights violations and yet you are covered in lice. Protests over human rights abuses are spreading across the globe. The problem is that everyone has lice. All that junk in their house was made in sweat shops by "slave labor". People are trying to complain about Breonna Taylor and yet prominent black athletes like Shaq and Charles Barkley point out that the police were serving a warrant and were shot at. Others point out how many kids and minorities are shot and killed every day without any protests. Everywhere you look you see the hypocrisy and unrighteousness. Everyone has lice. MLB tried to pretend they were "woke" by moving the All Star game from Atlanta (50% black) to Denver (10% black) because Georgia is going to require voter ID (which Colorado already requires). Everyone realized the hypocrisy.

Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

Right now we have a grievous swarm of protests, riots, looters and counter protests. Where did they all come from? Unemployment is sky high. Many colleges are shut down. With imports down 30% it is much easier for border security to stop the illegal traffic of drugs. As a result gangs have become unable to support themselves. These protests do not represent the saints in the church. There is a division between God’s people and these protestors.

25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. 26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

It is hilarious, Joe Biden used the protests to get elected and then thought what, they would disband? No, you made them feel powerful, now they realize they were a tool, they are now attacking people in the world like a swarm of flies. These cities are uninhabitable and people are fleeing. They even want to flee the state, not the people but the entire county wants to move from California to Idaho. The world has all these rules about not preaching, not proselytizing, no prayer in school, no reference to God. Apparently even a slight mention of God is “an abomination” to them. The things happening on earth are a judgement from God on this evil age. The only way to restore balance is for us to worship the true and living God. But the world has made it clear that is an abomination to them. That is why the Lord is going to rapture His faithful ones, and the world will be left to reap what they have sown.

The Lord prophesied that at the end of the age His angels would go forth and gather the wheat into the barns and gather the tares for the fire. That is what we are seeing right now, the gathering of these two different groups.

 

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Acts 1:1-10 -- I make known the End from the Beginning

There is a verse in which God says He makes known the end from the beginning. There is another verse that says that which was is that which shall be. So, we can look at the first ascension to see what the second ascension will be like and what the third, etc. Think about it, the Lord said we must take up our cross and follow Him. Suppose there is a believer and this one balked at taking the cross, they "backslid". But then they see the rapture, the saints are taken, and this one repents. What do they need to do? They need to take up their cross and follow the Lord. It doesn't matter if you are Peter, or Paul or James or saints living today or saints during the rapture, everyone of us has to take up our cross and follow Him. Seeing the Lord ascend to heaven was a major motivation to them and you see them spend 10 days in prayer and then they are on fire. I suspect we'll see the same thing repeated at the end of the age.

1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

This is very specific. Everything Jesus began to do and to teach until the day He was taken up to heaven. He was taken up “after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles”. Once again, what are those who are raptured, the firstfruits, going to be doing prior to that? They will be writing about all that Jesus did and taught and will be giving instructions to all those who will be left behind.

3 After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

The timing is fascinating. Jesus is raised from the dead after His suffering, He is with the apostles and disciples for 40 days and then is taken up. They remain for ten more days until Pentecost when they are baptized with the Holy Spirit. Paul talks about "unto all the riches of the full assurance of faith". We all have faith, but with every "rich" we get from the word our faith grows and grows until we arrive at the full assurance.

6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

It is not for you to know times and dates. However, we are the Lord’s witnesses. No one would call a witness if they didn’t know anything, so what is given to us to know is Jesus Christ, the resurrected King. What are witnesses? They are the evidence in a trial. Today Mike Lindell released "Absolute 9-0". It is a movie where he presents the evidence that he says is undeniable and will result in the Supreme court ruling 9-0 concerning the election fraud. What he has is like having a video tape of the bank being robbed. As the data was flying back and forth between the US and China and votes were being switched someone was recording the entire thing. Surely they had this evidence the first week of November, so why wait seven months to release this? If they recorded all the evidence of election fraud and knew about it in November don't you think the NSA is also listening into phones, texts, emails, etc? They aren't simply going to say "the election was stolen" they also needed to know each and every person involved. Imagine the last seven months as lawsuit after lawsuit has been put forward. State legislators, Judges, people working with the Tech giants, the Biden administration, there must be many, many phone calls, texts, emails that will unravel the entire twisted web of deceit. This is why we could not know, because if we had we would have given it away and then they would have completely shut down all communication. Allow them to be overconfident, they let down the guard, and then you will hear and learn so much. Besides, the NSA has everything on tape, so the minute you identify someone like Dominion, or Kemp or Zuckerberg you can then go back in time to 2020 and 2019.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

“He will come back in the same way”. Does this mean that God is making known to us the end from the beginning as He said in Isaiah 46? Imagine the age of grace began with the Lord’s ascension and ends in the same way. Yes, the main harvest should be at the end of the year, but the first fruits should be reaped at the feast of the firstfruits. If there is roughly 3 ½ years between the first rapture and the second then there will be six months between them.

Here we see they need to see the ascension ten days before Pentecost, it is a great motivation to them. They dive into the word and prayer. "You will see him come back in the same way you have seen Him go", can't get any clearer than that.

 

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There are several women who prefigure the rapture: the Shulamite woman, Rahab, Ruth and Esther. These women are quite different but think about it, when the Lord returns there will be many that are raptured and they are all in different situations. Esther was the queen, in the palace while Mordecai was a deplorable on the street, locked out of the city center, and a protestor. Rahab is a prostitute in a Canaanite city. Canaan signifies commerce. We have key people working in some of these companies, with CNN, with Facebook, with Amazon.com that are critical at helping us spy out the situation. Where do you think we got all these affidavits of election fraud, or who blew the whistle on many of these expose's that have come out the last few months. Ruth has nothing to do with the government or with the corrupt Canaanites, but she is one who is willing to humble herself and become nothing to take care of her mother in law. The rapture is for all those walking in faith. Esther is a great example of someone who took up their cross and followed the Lord. Mordecai is a great example, Rahab is a great example and Ruth is a great example. So what about the Shulamite woman? Ultimately this a romance, a love story. Like Mary there are those who have chosen the better part. Loving the Lord, worshipping the Lord, in the end is the better part.

 

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Exodus 9 -- They lied and now they have boils on their face.

1 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 3 Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

Cattle are the engine, the power of the agricultural economy. They are the “big business”. They are both the transportation and the power of the economy. The frogs might be the small retail outlets you see shopping malls with all the trinkets and junk they sell. This type of junk is closely associated with the junk associated with various sports teams. Their ratings have plummeted and no doubt the sales of that junk has also crashed. They were the first to get wiped out. But these cattle would represent the S&P 500, the main engine of the US economy. Cars represent the single biggest item in the US economy. However we are in a crisis, there are a shortage of chips and these chips are essential for building these cars. Since people can't buy a new car they aren't trading in the old cars and so not only do we not have new cars we also don't have used cars. Prices have risen about 30% in a single year. The world’s economy operates on credit, it gives them “leverage”. However, since March they have been put into a terrible bind, they can’t continue to operate without borrowing money and no one would lend them money. As a result the US government has been buying up corporate debt at an unprecedented rate, even by 2010 standards the numbers are completely off the charts. It doesn’t show up as increasing US debt because on the books they have exchanged dollars which they print with corporate debt. It looks like an investment until the day you have to admit that paper is worthless. On that day your money will collapse in value. This is happening in the US, Japan, and Europe but it is even worse in China and Russia. So what is happening is that people have lots of cash but nothing to buy. As a result many people are not returning to the work force, we are short of the labor that makes our economy work.

7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

What we have seen with the cancel culture and the censorship of conservative Christians is an exodus from companies like Google, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, etc. Mike Lindell was attacked and instead of going to the stores where his products are sold people are going on line in droves to buy from him. He has been adding new products on a weekly basis. The companies that are independent of these giants associated with Egypt are not just losing customers in the US, they are losing their standing worldwide. Australia, Poland, Mexico, Germany, France, Israel, Taiwan, etc. These countries see the insidious side of these companies and they are moving to protect themselves. But not only so we are seeing a distinction between the people of God and the people of the world. Those in the world are looking for the handouts and figuring out how not to return to work. Those who belong to the Lord realize they need to work and are not looking for a handout.

8 And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. 10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.

When you deal with something, investigate it, judge it, and carry out that sentence it is as though you burned it to ashes. Why are we having all these protests? Suppose the police make a mistake, they kill an innocent person. Well they write up the report to indicate the person was a suspect (recently a police chief was fired for instructing his officers to do that). They might plant evidence on them like drugs or a gun (police have admitted this happens frequently). They might in the case of the mortgage crisis determine that the crooks are “too big to fail”. Basically an admission that the country is run by crooks and the government is incapable of dealing with them. Every time the government does not thoroughly and completely judge sin those “ashes” carry something that will cause boils. The protests are boiling over because of this. The “criminals” know that being set up by the police or the government is commonplace, they also know that once they have a felony on their record they are a second class citizen. This hypocrisy, this failure to deal with sin affects the magicians. All these regulators and government officials and pundits and talking heads. They have boils on their face because they have failed to deal with sin. Governor Cuomo, Governor Newsom, Governor Whitmer, they all have boils on their face and can no longer stand before us. Hunter Biden and the FBI which had his laptop and even Joe Biden also are covered in boils. These magicians told us a year ago the pandemic came from a bat cave, today they have boils on their face. They told us that HCQ could not be used to treat Covid and at least 20 to 30,000 died because of that, now they have boils on their face. They told us Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, now they have boils on their face. They told us what was happening at the border was a human rights violation and as soon as they were in power they would put an end to it. Now they have boils on their face.

 

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Song of Songs 2 The Season of singing has come


10

My beloved spoke and said to me,

“Arise, my darling,

my beautiful one, come with me.

11

See! The winter is past;

the rains are over and gone.

12

Flowers appear on the earth;

the season of singing has come,

the cooing of doves

is heard in our land.

13

The fig tree forms its early fruit;

the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.

Arise, come, my darling;

my beautiful one, come with me.”


Arise and come with me certainly sounds like a reference to the rapture. What I found interesting is the reference to the grapes and figs. The rapture is a harvest. We generally think of the harvest of the wheat and there is both a spring and summer harvest. However, here are two other crops. The fig tree is clearly not ripe yet, that certainly refers to the nation of Israel. But the grapes are what struck me. Is this a reference to the 5th seal, those who are beheaded as well as all those who are martyred during the tribulation. That also points to the rapture in Chapter 4 of Revelation as taking place in the Spring time (the winter is over, the early spring rains have passed and the flowers appear). The other thing that I found interesting is the sound of doves (the holy spirit) is heard in our land. This is like all the various testimonies, dreams, visions, and various posts Christians are making. The Pandemic was a like a long hard winter and now that it seems this might be past you get the excitement that we associate with Spring time.

 

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Acts 2 -- On your marks, get set, Go!

1 And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place.

2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. 6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, 10 in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.

12 And they were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, What meaneth this? 13 But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine. 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spake forth unto them, saying, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and give ear unto my words. 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is but the third hour of the day; 16 but this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:
17 And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams: 18 Yea and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days Will I pour forth of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

There are those who claim that Pentecost would be a good day for the rapture. When I look at this it doesn't seem like the end of the race but the beginning of the race. Yes, it is possible that you end where you started, many races are like that. But what seems more reasonable to me is that Ascension day is the rapture and then ten days later the second heat begins. It seems to me the end of the age is in three heats, maybe four. You have the firstfruits run and finish their race, then the general harvest of Christians, then the nation of Israel. In there you can also have those who are martyred for the Lord. But the tongues of fire, everyone hearing the great things of God, this seems like people going out to witness, not completing their course whereas Ascension day seems to me to be the Lord completing His earthly ministry. In the same way Pentecost seems to be the start of the ministry of the apostles, when they were "baptized".

I say this because June 10th has some very interesting signs and it occurs on Ascension day (if our calculation of Passover was off by a month which some calendars say).

 

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Acts 3:17 “Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.

We have seen a lot of heinous things done in the last year but they were done in ignorance. For example a number of very prominent scientists, researchers, the head of the CDC and even the President warned us about the Pandemic and that is came from the Chinese Bioweapons lab and their warnings were mocked, ridiculed and reviled. Some people were behaving deceitfully, their heart was full of deceit because they had designed wickedness. But many of us simply acted in ignorance, trusting that those who had sworn to protect the US were in fact doing that.

18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. 19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,20 and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus.

2,000 years ago it was Jesus who had warned them and who they rejected. They may have thought that Jesus was causing trouble and if they would silence this one man then the whole nation could have peace. That was a lie and after crucifying Jesus Titus came and destroyed the entire nation and scattered them to the four corners of the earth. At the end of the age it will be God's people who are warning you, they will be the ones you reject, ignore and opt to silence. Some will realize they acted in ignorance and repent, others will harden their hearth like Pharaoh and be destroyed.

 

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James 3:3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.

When Facebook or Twitter censors and fact checks posts they are "putting a bit" into your mouth to make you obey them. You can go this way and not that. You can promote the use of masks but you cannot ask about the origin of the pandemic.

4 Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go.

Individually we are like horses, collectively the US is like a great ship. Fauci was at the helm steering the ship and ran it onto the rocks. Fauci was a "very small rudder" but be assured there was a pilot pulling the strings. How do we know? Fauci had no control over all the press fawning over him.

5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

This pandemic is like a great forest fire. It is itself set no fire by hell. Still we should understand that it was the tongue of people like Fauci and the WHO that set the world on fire.

 

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Romans 2:1-16 -- God will repay each person according to what they have done

1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

This is the age of grace, the age in which we are witnesses of the Lord’s grace. The gospel we preach is very much focused on sin and righteousness, however, we are not the judge nor are we to judge. We are witnesses. Please note, “passing judgement on someone else” is not the same thing as witnessing concerning sin and righteousness. It is very important to stay balanced. Some Christians will become self righteous judges of others, the “holier than thou” crowd. Others will go to the other extreme refusing to condemn sin and will join the “everything goes” crowd.

2 Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.

The New Testament is very clear that God judges sin. The crucifixion is evidence of God’s judgement on sin. The gospel is that although the crucifixion represents the price that must be paid for sin the Lord has already paid that price for anyone willing to receive it. For those of us who have received the Lord’s redeeming work we are crucified with Christ and it is no longer us that lives but Christ lives in us. This is the good news of grace.

3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?

This is even worse. When you judge others you usurp God’s position as the judge, that is rebellion, and not only so but your judgement is hypocritical since you do the same thing. So then how will you escape this judgement? With the same judgement you judge you will be judged. This is why the gospel of grace also talks of mercy. Judge others with mercy and then you too will receive mercy when God judges you.

4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

These ones who teach that everything goes, there is no hell, and we are not here to judge sin, this is to show contempt for the word of God. We are witnesses, that includes witnessing to God’s grace, God’s mercy, but also God’s righteousness and judgment. The gospel is to lead us to repent of sin, not ignore it, not cover our eyes to it, not to pretend it doesn’t exist.

5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.

That is a scary picture: “Storing up wrath”. Instead of repenting many hide or “cover up” their sins. Paul says to “cover up” sins is likened to someone with a storage cellar. they didn’t deal with it, they merely stored it away for a later day. On judgment day God will open up that cellar and you will be judged for every skeleton in there.

6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”

Yes, this is the New Testament, this is the fellowship of the apostles. The same book that teaches that we have been forgiven of all our sins teaches that “God will repay each person according to what they have done”. How do we reconcile these two? If you are in Christ, then you will be repaid according to what Christ has done, if you are in your self you will be repaid according to what you have done. How do I enter into Christ? I confess my sins and I repent. For example, lets say you robbed a bank and got away with it. You now need to go to the authorities and confess and pay the price which could include returning the money and going to jail. Confessing a sin that you had “gotten away with” demonstrates remorse, so even if you killed a person a judge will usually use evidence of remorse to avoid the death penalty.

7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

We have two different groups here. Just like the parable of wheat and tares. The two are growing together. Just because Paul does not judge those who are self seeking, those who reject the truth and follow evil, it doesn’t mean he isn’t aware of what they are doing. He was following evil until he met the Lord and then he had a 180 degree turn and sought glory, honor and eternal life. We know that there are satanists, but our gospel of the glory of the eternal God is more powerful than anything they have. The big prize right now is to have someone caught by Satan confess, repent and seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness. At some point in the near future God will judge, but prior to that the best thing that can happen is people repent and come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism.

Favoritism, racism is one form of favoritism. Religious extremism is another form of favoritism. The satanic worldly system is built on favoritism. Secret societies, the KKK, all these evil organizations are built on favoritism. That is why they have secret handshakes, pins, and symbols. They can signal to someone they are a member of this secret society and then people will show them favoritism and they get the job, they get promoted. This is how the deep state works. The gospel of glory is different, the word touches your spirit and operates from within. We do not have to operate in secret, in the dark, rather we can walk in the light.

12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

This is the New Testament. God writes His laws on our heart. Yes, people have secrets, but the day will come when God will judge people’s secrets. People assume if you have a secret it must be something wicked. Seeking glory, honor and eternal life can also be the secret of your heart. During Jesus’ ministry He had a secret, He was the Son of God yet He forbid the demons from sharing this secret. He healed people but often wanted that to be kept secret as well.

 

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Romans 2:17-29 Storing up praise from God

17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; 18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

Do not misread what Paul is saying. He is not saying that we should not boast in God, or that we shouldn’t know His will, or that being instructed in the Law is a superior education. He is not denying that the church is to be a light in the dark. What he is saying is that every word needs to be internalized. We need to live what we teach and what we preach.

25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.

Circumcision is like a wedding ring, it signifies you have a covenant. If you live according to that covenant then the wedding ring has value, but if you do not live according to your wedding vows then the ring is something of ridicule and scorn.

26 So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?

Suppose you have two women, one has a wedding ring but is a prostitute, the other does not have a wedding ring but is faithful and true. People will have much greater respect for the woman that lives according to the wedding vows even though she doesn’t have a ring than the woman who has a ring but doesn’t honor her vows.

27 The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.

These words must be written on our heart. When God reveals the secrets of our heart this is what must be stored there.

 

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James 3:13-18 Earthly, unspiritual, demonic wisdom of the pandemic

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. 17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

False prophets have one kind of wisdom that is earthly, unspiritual and demonic. They will boast that it was due to their “wisdom” that they got where they are. But if you dig deeper you discover that Hitler took power by killing others, the ugly facts that they will deny. 9/11 was an inside job, it allowed the Patriot act to be passed, an act enabling much greater surveillance in the US. Hitler’s public speaking created some of the most memorable spectacles seen this century, they also exhibited a man who was mentally unhinged. He was boastful, had bitter envy and selfish ambition. With the Nazi’s we found every evil practice. It was the expression of the wrath of man. The wandering sheep is the canary in the coal mine, an indicator of a much bigger problem. The mortgage crisis should have alerted all of us of a much bigger problem, NAFTA should have alerted us of a much bigger problem. The Stop the Steal rallies should alert us to a much bigger problem. Wisdom should be first pure, if someone is willing to do things that are impure for a “greater good” then beware. We are seeing political leaders like AOC willing to openly and brazenly lie "for a greater good". That is not pure. Heavenly wisdom is peace loving, a rabble rouser, someone looking to incite a riot is an indicator of someone who is full of envy. We have seen politicians jump on a shooting event to fan the flames of a race war, that is not peace loving. If they are not considerate of others, they are not submissive to authority, then that is evil and demonic. They will be full of vengeance instead of mercy, full of poisonous fruit, they will have blatant prejudices and they will be a liar. Your ministry must be that of a peacemaker who sows in peace and reaps in righteousness.

We are now learning that the pandemic was not some natural event, it was a man made crisis, it was demonic wisdom that resulted in such an evil practice. The pandemic was an unspiritual wisdom, they wanted greater control, they wanted to give every person a "social score" a way to monitor and promote people submissive to the totalitarian regime while being able to punish those who don't bow the knee. They wanted to put the middle class out of business since the backbone of democracy is the middle class. The oligarch overlords wanted to force everyone to use their platforms and the pandemic has been very profitable to them while putting their competition out of business. Look deeper and you find the pandemic was rooted in envy and selfish ambition.

True wisdom is first pure, those who were completely wrapped up in this pandemic were liars. Fauci has been proven to be a liar, many other scientists and news outlets and politicians have also lied to promote the narrative they wanted. There was nothing peace loving or considerate about the pandemic. They were happy to cause irreparable harm to children, to bankrupt small business owners, and to kill the most vulnerable in nursing homes so that they could win an election and increase their power.

 

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Rabbi Kaduri's prophecy concerning the signs that would precede the messiah's return "when there will be elections but there will not be a government". I find this interesting that it is plural rather than one election. Everyone assumes this refers to Israel, but suppose it refers to the US and Israel. This could be an interesting prophecy of the current issue with election fraud in our country. On the one hand this is exactly what has happened in Israel with multiple elections and no government, but the strange situation in the US seems eerily similar. What does this mean "elections but no government", it means that democracy is in crisis. It means the hirelings have run away when they see the wolves. It means that the total focus on the politicians is running for office and not on governing.

Then his prophecy he left to be read after his death "He will raise the people and confirm that his word and law are standing". It was an acronym for Jesus name, but it also gives you an idea of the end of the age. The Lord's word (the New Testament) and the Law (the Old Testament) stand. That is what the attack will be focused on. He will raise His people precedes this, the rapture, a testimony that His word and the law stand.

 

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This is a very interesting interpretation of the days of Noah, and how the mark of the beast will be like the days of Noah by corrupting the flesh of man and removing the image of God from all flesh.

Basically the point is that at the days of Noah the angels came down and mixed their DNA with humans creating the mighty men of renown. Just like someone cheating at baseball by taking steroids. It may sound far fetched but the mark of the beast is mentioned with the sin of sorcerers which is an OT term for pharmaceutical companies that make these RNA vaccines which change your DNA. Not only so but the discovery of "the god gene" a few years ago and the idea that they could design a vaccine which would counteract the God gene as a way to deal with religious extremists all ties in with this. It is certainly one plausible interpretation given everything we know today.

 

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Rabbi Kaduri's prophecy concerning the signs that would precede the messiah's return "when there will be elections but there will not be a government". I find this interesting that it is plural rather than one election. Everyone assumes this refers to Israel, but suppose it refers to the US and Israel. This could be an interesting prophecy of the current issue with election fraud in our country. On the one hand this is exactly what has happened in Israel with multiple elections and no government, but the strange situation in the US seems eerily similar. What does this mean "elections but no government", it means that democracy is in crisis. It means the hirelings have run away when they see the wolves. It means that the total focus on the politicians is running for office and not on governing.

Then his prophecy he left to be read after his death "He will raise the people and confirm that his word and law are standing". It was an acronym for Jesus name, but it also gives you an idea of the end of the age. The Lord's word (the New Testament) and the Law (the Old Testament) stand. That is what the attack will be focused on. He will raise His people precedes this, the rapture, a testimony that His word and the law stand.

I am reminded of Daniel's prophesy of iron mixed with miry clay for the feet. Miry clay refers to the swamp. Our government in the US is compared to a swamp and Washington DC is a swamp. The CCP and Putin are both totalitarian regimes, likened to iron. The one world government will be a mingling of these totalitarian regimes and these swampy democratic regimes.

 

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Some of the things he teaches here are completely new to me and I don't know that I agree with them. I think it is an interesting twist, I think it is directly tied to the word of God so you can take this word in prayer before the Lord. I do feel there is something very off about giving out lottery tickets or beer to entice people to receive this vaccination, threatening people with being cut off from society if they don't, and it is illogical to make people who already had Covid get the vaccine. I don't think any believer should get the vaccine if you don't have life and peace in your spirit. As for me, my wife and my son we are not getting the vaccine. I had covid a year ago, my wife and son must have been exposed as well and so we see no need and we are unsettled by the way in which it is being forced on people. So one thing I totally agree with is every believer needs to be warned to pray about it and don't blindly trust that these people have your welfare at heart.

 

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Romans 3:1-20 -- How to please the Lord

1 What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?

Circumcision is like a wedding ring. Living according to your wedding vows is far more important than the wedding ring, but that doesn’t mean the wedding ring doesn’t have any value.

2 Much in every way! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.

This word is spoken to us, the Gentiles. We should thank God that the Jews gave us the words of God. The bible was entrusted to them, that is a very strong commendation. We know that Satan would do anything to prevent us from getting the word of God, so for all their other failings being entrusted with the word of God may very well be the most important thing the Jews did.

3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?

Let’s apply this to ourselves. We have seen many Christians who were unfaithful, does that nullify God’s faithfulness? Does some televangelist committing various sins nullify God’s faithfulness?

4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written:

“So that you may be proved right when you speak

and prevail when you judge.”

When the Bible says to “imitate God” we should imitate this. Humans are prone to “tit for tat”, someone does me wrong so I do them wrong. All that does is make you look very small.

5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)

Man’s unrighteousness is like a black background that causes God’s righteousness to shine brighter. Jesus is Lord. Compare Jesus to every other king, emperor, or lord and He shines all the brighter.

6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?

Let’s use a human example. Suppose a wife is unfaithful to her husband so in return the husband cheats on his wife. Once he does that he has forfeited his right to judge her. If I were sitting in the jury it would not be a very compelling argument to me that this man says “but she cheated first”. As far as I am concerned you are both cheats.

7 Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”

Wow, “some” have no shame.

8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!

God’s glory will increase but the unfaithful wife will still be bitterness to the soul. A wife needs to be a match for the husband, all this woman has done is shown that she is not a match.

No One Is Righteous

9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

This word is spoken to the Gentiles. Jesus was rejected and crucified by the Jews. As a result the gospel came to the Gentiles. This doesn’t mean that the Gentiles are better, nor does it mean that we have an advantage. What it means is that we need to deal with sin otherwise we will be just like the unfaithful wife that has been cast aside into outer darkness.

10 As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;

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there is no one who understands;

there is no one who seeks God.

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All have turned away,

they have together become worthless;

there is no one who does good,

not even one.”

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“Their throats are open graves;

their tongues practice deceit.”

“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”

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“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

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“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

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ruin and misery mark their ways,

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and the way of peace they do not know.”

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“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

This is a powerful condemnation.

19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

This is the flip side, let’s go back to the woman who is an adulterous woman. Suppose she volunteers at the church, would that make a difference to her husband? What if she donates 20% of her paycheck to feed the poor, does that make up for her being adulterous? No one will be declared righteous by doing works of the law.

 

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Romans 3:21-31 Righteousness Through Faith

21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Now let’s suppose there is another situation, you have a man and a woman and this woman appreciates the man, loves the man, and truly cares for him. How do we know? Because she hangs onto his words. His words are a lamp to her footsteps. Like Peter said “to whom can we go you have the words of life”. This is faith. This relationship is “right”. A marriage between a man and an unfaithful wife is not “right”. But if you have a situation where the woman loves and appreciates the words of her husband, that is right in the eyes of man.

25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

This woman, like the first, is also found in sin. However, the Lord paid the price for the sin. The first wife despised that sacrifice and she was cast off, the second wife can now walk in righteousness, not because of her works of the law but because she has faith in His words.

27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.

Faith is all about appreciating the Lord. If you are proud and appreciate yourself like some narcissistic boastful woman, then you could never have faith in His words. The two are like oil and water, the one excludes the other.

28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.

Wow, this is usually where the unbelievers start. They contend that if God is the God of all then all religions are good. But what are those other religions? They are the things that people are unfaithful to the Lord with. True, God is the God of all, however, God entrusted the Jews with the word of God. If you love God then you love His words. You treasure His words. If you despise His words then you are no different from the boastful unfaithful wife that was cast off. How is it that you see God in His creation, claim to seek God and love God every bit as much as anyone else and yet you don’t want His words?

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The poison of vipers is on their lips.” “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” How do you want the poisonous words that you have rather than the words of life?

“Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” You tell me that every religion is the same and yet you don’t know the way of peace, you are swift to shed blood, your way of life leads to shipwreck and misery.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” What kind of religion has no fear of God?