Russia Attacks 3 Days of Darkness 01/16/2023
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Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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Matthew 12:22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
Let's compare this to what has happened recently with Twitter. No doubt Twitter was possessed by a devil and this made it blind (unable to see what was going on) and dumb (censoring all those who tried to say what was going on). This company was brought to the Lord and now it can both see and speak, this is the "twitter files". Now some think this may be some big trick of the devil, that the "deep state" is still firmly in control. But what we are seeing is that the "house is divided against itself". For example all this information about Biden and classified documents coming out, clearly the house is divided against itself. This means that Jesus is the one who is casting out the devils.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
Let's compare this to what has happened recently with Twitter. No doubt Twitter was possessed by a devil and this made it blind (unable to see what was going on) and dumb (censoring all those who tried to say what was going on). This company was brought to the Lord and now it can both see and speak, this is the "twitter files". Now some think this may be some big trick of the devil, that the "deep state" is still firmly in control. But what we are seeing is that the "house is divided against itself". For example all this information about Biden and classified documents coming out, clearly the house is divided against itself. This means that Jesus is the one who is casting out the devils.
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
As we see these things take place know that the kingdom of God is come unto us.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
CNN has been bound, Twitter has been bound, MSNBC has been bound. Once we were able to bind them we were able to expose the hypocrisy, lies, and crimes. The Twitter files is Twitter being spoiled. This impacts Facebook and Youtube. CNN's ratings are in the toilet while Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson are ascendant. They are plundering the deep state, they are plundering the sorcerers who made this vaccine, they are plundering the Biden Whitehouse, they are plundering the Republican party.
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
This is so obvious, there are two completely different narratives coming out of a show like Bannon's WarRoom pandemic or The View. What this is doing is making it obvious to all who is with the Lord and who is against the Lord. Who is gathering with the Lord here, or who is working with the globalists to scatter us abroad.
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
You can insult and slander Steve Bannon and then realize you made a mistake, confess your sins, repent and be forgiven. That is fine. But if you take the mark of the beast, if you become a cyborg where your mind is no longer open to the Lord but is controlled by AI, then you can no longer confess, repent, and be forgiven.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
For six thousand years we have seen what dictatorial rule by man looks like. Pharaoh's, Kings, Emperors, Dictators, Generals, Chairman Mao, etc. What is the fruit of that tree? Is the fruit ever anything other than corrupt? Jesus is the vine tree, His fruit is good. Make your choice.
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
How can AI speak good things? It is searching the abundance of the internet. If the abundance of the internet is evil it will speak evil.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
AI is bringing out evil things from the evil treasure. How do we know it isn't "the good man"? Because AI moves everyday to becoming a dictator with total control.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Every word we are speaking is being recorded. The only analogy we can make of this is a video game where every key stroke is recorded.
As we see these things take place know that the kingdom of God is come unto us.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
CNN has been bound, Twitter has been bound, MSNBC has been bound. Once we were able to bind them we were able to expose the hypocrisy, lies, and crimes. The Twitter files is Twitter being spoiled. This impacts Facebook and Youtube. CNN's ratings are in the toilet while Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson are ascendant. They are plundering the deep state, they are plundering the sorcerers who made this vaccine, they are plundering the Biden Whitehouse, they are plundering the Republican party.
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
This is so obvious, there are two completely different narratives coming out of a show like Bannon's WarRoom pandemic or The View. What this is doing is making it obvious to all who is with the Lord and who is against the Lord. Who is gathering with the Lord here, or who is working with the globalists to scatter us abroad.
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
You can insult and slander Steve Bannon and then realize you made a mistake, confess your sins, repent and be forgiven. That is fine. But if you take the mark of the beast, if you become a cyborg where your mind is no longer open to the Lord but is controlled by AI, then you can no longer confess, repent, and be forgiven.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
For six thousand years we have seen what dictatorial rule by man looks like. Pharaoh's, Kings, Emperors, Dictators, Generals, Chairman Mao, etc. What is the fruit of that tree? Is the fruit ever anything other than corrupt? Jesus is the vine tree, His fruit is good. Make your choice.
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
How can AI speak good things? It is searching the abundance of the internet. If the abundance of the internet is evil it will speak evil.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
AI is bringing out evil things from the evil treasure. How do we know it isn't "the good man"? Because AI moves everyday to becoming a dictator with total control.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Every word we are speaking is being recorded. The only analogy we can make of this is a video game where every key stroke is recorded.
The Antichrist is a counterfeit Christ
Just as the Lord had a 3 1/2 year ministry so also Satan will get a chance with the Antichrist to have a 3 1/2 year ministry. We get hung up on the fact that Christmas is not when Jesus was born and therefore all the other days like Candleamas when Jesus was presented was also not when He was presented.
But look at this from a different angle. Jesus was born according to the prophecy, circumcised according to the prophecy, ministry began according to the prophecy, etc. Therefore with the counterfeit Christ we would expect to see some counterfeit prophecies also that are being fulfilled for the Antichrist.
Just as the Lord had a 3 1/2 year ministry so also Satan will get a chance with the Antichrist to have a 3 1/2 year ministry. We get hung up on the fact that Christmas is not when Jesus was born and therefore all the other days like Candleamas when Jesus was presented was also not when He was presented.
But look at this from a different angle. Jesus was born according to the prophecy, circumcised according to the prophecy, ministry began according to the prophecy, etc. Therefore with the counterfeit Christ we would expect to see some counterfeit prophecies also that are being fulfilled for the Antichrist.
43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
So why is this a wicked generation? According to the story the unclean spirit was kicked out, then the house was clean and swept. The problem is the evil spirit needs to be replaced with the Holy Spirit. Yes, they kicked out the unclean spirit but they never replaced it with the Holy Spirit. The generation is wicked because they think they can do this on their own, they feel they have no need of God and thought they had kicked out the unclean spirit on their own. If you look at American history it is very clear that we had some great revivals, great ministry of the word, while at the same time we were dealing with some very unclean spirits, witchcraft, and pure evil. That is why they are wicked.
44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
So why is this a wicked generation? According to the story the unclean spirit was kicked out, then the house was clean and swept. The problem is the evil spirit needs to be replaced with the Holy Spirit. Yes, they kicked out the unclean spirit but they never replaced it with the Holy Spirit. The generation is wicked because they think they can do this on their own, they feel they have no need of God and thought they had kicked out the unclean spirit on their own. If you look at American history it is very clear that we had some great revivals, great ministry of the word, while at the same time we were dealing with some very unclean spirits, witchcraft, and pure evil. That is why they are wicked.
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2 Thess 2:1-8 -- The Rebellion comes first
1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him,
These are two things, the Lord’s coming and our being gathered to Him, what we refer to as the rapture. It appears that the Lord comes secretly immediately before the rapture.
we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
Everyone should be very clear that a rebellion occurs first and the man of lawlessness is revealed before the day of the Lord -- the last seven years, the 70th week. There has been some wonderful exposition of Isaiah that the US is the transplanted vineyard of the Lord, the vineyard He surrounded with hedges to the East across the sea. Some have even overlaid the pattern of the temple and the items in the temple over the US and the pattern is quite fascinating. So let’s look a little closer at this, the antichrist who is to come, the “man of lawlessness” will be “impudent and brazen”. To a lesser degree we saw this with Hitler, but it will be on full display with the man of lawlessness. Second, he will be a master of intrigue.
What this verse tells us is that the rebellion occurs first. We have a rebellion in the book of Esther which is a type of the end of the age and the rapture. I am reminded of Esther and Mordecai by this mysterious "Q" and Steve Bannon dealing with election fraud and the rebellion of the deep state here in the US. I would include Fauci and this whole pandemic, vaccine fraud as well.
We also have a rebellion taking place first in the story of Noah with the angels and the nephilim. Recently we are seeing the worship of Moloch, Baal, and the occult become very bold and in your face. They were screaming about the ruling on abortion which was totally illogical. If 50% of Americans support abortion then 50% of the states probably do to, so even if you live in a state that makes it illegal you are probably less than an hour's drive from a state where it is legal. So the response was truly illogical, satanic or demonic would be a more accurate description.
Then there is the rebellion that we see in Daniel. Many have theorized that Daniel in the Lion's den refers to the tribulation that the raptured saints go through prior to the rapture and the three boys in the furnace of fire is the tribulation that those who are left behind go through. Daniel was arrested because he prayed to God, recently a woman in the UK was arrested because she was praying quietly. After this we have Daniel being called in by the profligate king's son to read the "writing on the wall" and interpret it. That night the rebellion takes place. I suspect there will be a terrifying sign that will take place immediately before the rapture. We are told that the three days of darkness will precede the attack by Russia. Other prophecies say that as the bombs go down the saints go up. Therefore this "writing on the wall" by a "hand" might be fulfilled by this three days of darkness with terrifying demonic visions seen out the window.
We also have a rebellion with Adonijah who tried to be king before Solomon. Adonijah is a type of the Antichrist and Solomon is a type of Jesus Christ in His glorified kingdom. Prior to this the Shulamite woman is brought into the palace to keep King David warm (supposedly during winter time). I would think the party of Davos and all the globalists are depicted in this rebellion by Adonijah.
4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
We just shifted from past tense to future tense. Before the day comes the rebellion takes place and the man of lawlessness is revealed. That takes place before we are gathered to the Lord, i.e. raptured. But in the future, after the rapture, He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped. It does not say that he does this prior to the rapture. That is not how he is revealed. He is revealed because he is uniquely impudent and brazen, because he is a master of intrigue, because he destroys the mighty. He will oppose God, even setting himself up in the temple and proclaiming himself to be God. He doesn’t destroy the mighty with his own power, but he does take full credit for it. To exalt himself over everything that is called God includes the governmental authority we see in Esther, the rebellion of the angels we see with Noah and the fleshly lasciviousness we see with Sodom. To set himself up in God's temple is a direct reference to the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem where Antiochus sacrificed a pig, but it could also be this recent example of putting a pig's heart into a man, and it could also refer to the genetic vaccines they are giving people to change their DNA similar to what the angels did to create the Nephelim.
5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
We know what is holding him back. We may not be “master’s of intrigue”, we may not know the deep things of Satan, but all Christians know Jesus Christ and the Spirit of God. This is what is holding him back. Think logically, if we know what is holding him back then we obviously observe this struggle and the Spirit holding him back prior to the rapture. There will be a rebellion and rapture prior to the tribulation, then the Christians who remain will stand against the Mark of the Beast, and Finally the Jews will stand against the Antichrist in the temple in Jerusalem just like the story of the Maccabees standing against Antiochus Epiphany.
7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
We are the salt and the light. When we speak the word of God it restrains evil and holds it back. We must continue to do so right up until we are taken out of the way during the rapture. Many are referring to this as the "Red Sea" moment. The secret power of lawlessness is tied to blood sacrifices, however the blood of Jesus is much more powerful than anything they can conjure up.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
So then we are seeing all of these rebellions. We have not yet gotten to the writing on the wall. Adonijah's party takes place after the Shunamite woman (raptured saints) is taken to the palace. However, we are watching Esther and Mordecai battle Haman for the last two years. We are also seeing evidence of Nephilim and demons growing stronger and stronger.
1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him,
These are two things, the Lord’s coming and our being gathered to Him, what we refer to as the rapture. It appears that the Lord comes secretly immediately before the rapture.
we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
Everyone should be very clear that a rebellion occurs first and the man of lawlessness is revealed before the day of the Lord -- the last seven years, the 70th week. There has been some wonderful exposition of Isaiah that the US is the transplanted vineyard of the Lord, the vineyard He surrounded with hedges to the East across the sea. Some have even overlaid the pattern of the temple and the items in the temple over the US and the pattern is quite fascinating. So let’s look a little closer at this, the antichrist who is to come, the “man of lawlessness” will be “impudent and brazen”. To a lesser degree we saw this with Hitler, but it will be on full display with the man of lawlessness. Second, he will be a master of intrigue.
What this verse tells us is that the rebellion occurs first. We have a rebellion in the book of Esther which is a type of the end of the age and the rapture. I am reminded of Esther and Mordecai by this mysterious "Q" and Steve Bannon dealing with election fraud and the rebellion of the deep state here in the US. I would include Fauci and this whole pandemic, vaccine fraud as well.
We also have a rebellion taking place first in the story of Noah with the angels and the nephilim. Recently we are seeing the worship of Moloch, Baal, and the occult become very bold and in your face. They were screaming about the ruling on abortion which was totally illogical. If 50% of Americans support abortion then 50% of the states probably do to, so even if you live in a state that makes it illegal you are probably less than an hour's drive from a state where it is legal. So the response was truly illogical, satanic or demonic would be a more accurate description.
Then there is the rebellion that we see in Daniel. Many have theorized that Daniel in the Lion's den refers to the tribulation that the raptured saints go through prior to the rapture and the three boys in the furnace of fire is the tribulation that those who are left behind go through. Daniel was arrested because he prayed to God, recently a woman in the UK was arrested because she was praying quietly. After this we have Daniel being called in by the profligate king's son to read the "writing on the wall" and interpret it. That night the rebellion takes place. I suspect there will be a terrifying sign that will take place immediately before the rapture. We are told that the three days of darkness will precede the attack by Russia. Other prophecies say that as the bombs go down the saints go up. Therefore this "writing on the wall" by a "hand" might be fulfilled by this three days of darkness with terrifying demonic visions seen out the window.
We also have a rebellion with Adonijah who tried to be king before Solomon. Adonijah is a type of the Antichrist and Solomon is a type of Jesus Christ in His glorified kingdom. Prior to this the Shulamite woman is brought into the palace to keep King David warm (supposedly during winter time). I would think the party of Davos and all the globalists are depicted in this rebellion by Adonijah.
4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
We just shifted from past tense to future tense. Before the day comes the rebellion takes place and the man of lawlessness is revealed. That takes place before we are gathered to the Lord, i.e. raptured. But in the future, after the rapture, He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped. It does not say that he does this prior to the rapture. That is not how he is revealed. He is revealed because he is uniquely impudent and brazen, because he is a master of intrigue, because he destroys the mighty. He will oppose God, even setting himself up in the temple and proclaiming himself to be God. He doesn’t destroy the mighty with his own power, but he does take full credit for it. To exalt himself over everything that is called God includes the governmental authority we see in Esther, the rebellion of the angels we see with Noah and the fleshly lasciviousness we see with Sodom. To set himself up in God's temple is a direct reference to the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem where Antiochus sacrificed a pig, but it could also be this recent example of putting a pig's heart into a man, and it could also refer to the genetic vaccines they are giving people to change their DNA similar to what the angels did to create the Nephelim.
5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
We know what is holding him back. We may not be “master’s of intrigue”, we may not know the deep things of Satan, but all Christians know Jesus Christ and the Spirit of God. This is what is holding him back. Think logically, if we know what is holding him back then we obviously observe this struggle and the Spirit holding him back prior to the rapture. There will be a rebellion and rapture prior to the tribulation, then the Christians who remain will stand against the Mark of the Beast, and Finally the Jews will stand against the Antichrist in the temple in Jerusalem just like the story of the Maccabees standing against Antiochus Epiphany.
7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
We are the salt and the light. When we speak the word of God it restrains evil and holds it back. We must continue to do so right up until we are taken out of the way during the rapture. Many are referring to this as the "Red Sea" moment. The secret power of lawlessness is tied to blood sacrifices, however the blood of Jesus is much more powerful than anything they can conjure up.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
So then we are seeing all of these rebellions. We have not yet gotten to the writing on the wall. Adonijah's party takes place after the Shunamite woman (raptured saints) is taken to the palace. However, we are watching Esther and Mordecai battle Haman for the last two years. We are also seeing evidence of Nephilim and demons growing stronger and stronger.
And, why not? For centuries now self-proclaimed prophets and dreamers have tried to speculate, calculate, and guess, and as far as I can tell =
Little wonder then, that skeptics and critics laugh/mock Christians who, without all this nonsense, Actually believe in "looking, watching, and patiently waiting" for our Blessed Hope:
Pre-Trib Great GRACE Departure I
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Pre-Trib Great GRACE Departure II
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Precious friend(s):
Grace, Peace, And JOY In Christ, And In His Word Of Truth, Rightly
Divided (+ I and II)!
0% success rate = 100% failure rate.
Little wonder then, that skeptics and critics laugh/mock Christians who, without all this nonsense, Actually believe in "looking, watching, and patiently waiting" for our Blessed Hope:
Pre-Trib Great GRACE Departure I
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Pre-Trib Great GRACE Departure II
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Precious friend(s):
Grace, Peace, And JOY In Christ, And In His Word Of Truth, Rightly
Divided (+ I and II)!
Let's itemize some of the most blatant errors.
1. Up until 100 years ago Bible expositors felt that the reference to Israel being reformed and having a temple was allegorical and couldn't refer to an actual Israel and temple.
2. Other verses were seen as figurative like the whole world seeing the two witnesses killed and seeing their bodies lie on the ground for 3 1/2 days. Prior to the 1950s that was simply some kind of figurative speech.
3. The same is true of the mark of the beast with no one on earth being able to buy or sell without the mark. Simply did not computer until about 1980.
4. Or how about Daniel being arrested and thrown into the Lion's den for praying in his house. Very hard for anyone to imagine that ever happening until about two weeks ago when a woman in the UK was arrested for praying quietly.
5. Or how about the "army of the beast" that no one can make war with? After TV and computers we were able to interpret the beast as a huge supercomputer with AI running it. We could understand the mark of the beast after we had RFID and digital currency. But if you connect all those dots then what is the "army" of the beast? Now that we have drones and robots and cyborgs that can all be run by AI we can understand that as well.
Should we laugh at people because they couldn't understand these things 100 years ago or should we be amazed at the Lord, the Bible and the prophecies that told us all this would take place?
1. Up until 100 years ago Bible expositors felt that the reference to Israel being reformed and having a temple was allegorical and couldn't refer to an actual Israel and temple.
2. Other verses were seen as figurative like the whole world seeing the two witnesses killed and seeing their bodies lie on the ground for 3 1/2 days. Prior to the 1950s that was simply some kind of figurative speech.
3. The same is true of the mark of the beast with no one on earth being able to buy or sell without the mark. Simply did not computer until about 1980.
4. Or how about Daniel being arrested and thrown into the Lion's den for praying in his house. Very hard for anyone to imagine that ever happening until about two weeks ago when a woman in the UK was arrested for praying quietly.
5. Or how about the "army of the beast" that no one can make war with? After TV and computers we were able to interpret the beast as a huge supercomputer with AI running it. We could understand the mark of the beast after we had RFID and digital currency. But if you connect all those dots then what is the "army" of the beast? Now that we have drones and robots and cyborgs that can all be run by AI we can understand that as well.
Should we laugh at people because they couldn't understand these things 100 years ago or should we be amazed at the Lord, the Bible and the prophecies that told us all this would take place?
There is a Satanic stratagem to attack prophesy.
What differentiates the Bible from all other books including the Koran is prophesy. As God says He is the only one who can tell you the end from the beginning.
If you are not familiar with it you should look up the Berisheet prophesy on Youtube. The first word in the Bible is Berisheet which is translated "In the beginning" and this word tells you the story of Jesus' salvation.
On one hand prophesy is the proof given to us by God that the Bible is the word of God.
On another hand these prophesies tell us what is going to happen and as we see these things take place we get encouraged knowing that the Lord told us this from the beginning. This is why there is so much attack over this from the kingdom of darkness. Keep people in the dark is one of Satan's primary goals. Therefore we should not be surprised that there are many false prophets. That is simply proof that you are over the target. Suppose you are in the war, you are coming in with the bombers, if there is no antiaircraft fire then you are in the wrong place.
Christians who justify ignoring 25% of the Bible that is prophesy because of false prophets are simply cowards. If you are on the front lines of the war you will be seeing enemy fire on a daily basis.
What differentiates the Bible from all other books including the Koran is prophesy. As God says He is the only one who can tell you the end from the beginning.
If you are not familiar with it you should look up the Berisheet prophesy on Youtube. The first word in the Bible is Berisheet which is translated "In the beginning" and this word tells you the story of Jesus' salvation.
On one hand prophesy is the proof given to us by God that the Bible is the word of God.
On another hand these prophesies tell us what is going to happen and as we see these things take place we get encouraged knowing that the Lord told us this from the beginning. This is why there is so much attack over this from the kingdom of darkness. Keep people in the dark is one of Satan's primary goals. Therefore we should not be surprised that there are many false prophets. That is simply proof that you are over the target. Suppose you are in the war, you are coming in with the bombers, if there is no antiaircraft fire then you are in the wrong place.
Christians who justify ignoring 25% of the Bible that is prophesy because of false prophets are simply cowards. If you are on the front lines of the war you will be seeing enemy fire on a daily basis.
Hebrews 10:1-10 -- Let's fix this once for all
Quick review of where we are. There are two kinds of covenants, two kinds of priesthood, two kinds of law. If this was just talking about Israel and the Jewish nation it would be out of place here in the New Testament. I will use my experience as a teacher to demonstrate these two kinds of laws, but it applies to any work that you do and it applies to governments. There are essentially two systems. In the one system the vast majority of people are “slaves” or “employees” who do what they are told. In the other system you are “the boss”. You walk by faith, you need to pray for wisdom. The ministry of Paul gives us the elemental teachings of the new covenant, James pushes us to maturity. In the elemental teaching you are justified by faith, as you go to maturity faith without works is dead.
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
The offerings were “an annual reminder”. There is a regular “reset” where you must start over and over. This is because this system is not sustainable. We see this with all the empires. Egypt, Rome, Greece, Meso Persian, Babylonian, etc. They all fell and became dust. There is a fundamental shortcoming in all these empires, they treat people like they are bulls and goats; beasts of burden.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
This is exactly the same way I feel. Every year the school system has professional developments and a variety of activities to improve the experience for students and yet it seems to me like a hamster wheel. They don’t actually achieve anything. You would think that the goal would be simple, say to improve our test results from the 50th percentile to the top 10 percent. Every year we make small but incremental improvements toward that goal. Perhaps we have 4 or 5 different initiatives, we carefully monitor their impact. If three had a positive impact then we roll out those three schoolwide and come up with three new initiatives to test. In a school with 40 teachers you find the four who showed the most improvement and have them discuss what works and push those strategies out to everyone else if they are practical. But that is not what they do. Instead it is as though every year we are “reinventing the wheel”. Never once in all my experience in the public school have we had teachers at our school step forward and say this is what we did last year that was very effective. Now that is not completely true, we do have meetings and teachers do discuss things they are doing that are effective and this in turn does get shared with the whole school. But they will ask things like “what did you do last week that worked well”. There is no rigorous testing it is all anecdotal, and you can’t tie that to a goal like improving the results on the exam because how do you know if what you did last week will have a positive impact on an exam that is six months away? They treat the teachers like they are dumb beasts of burden. The Lord looked at this situation and said this is not what God desires. God wants results, He wants a perfect work. So what did the Lord have? He had a body, He had a life, instead of giving a cow or goat He gave himself. He put His life on the line. When you become an employee you agree to become a beast of burden, but when you start your own business you put yourself on the line.
7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’”
I have a book that summarizes 400 different pedagogical studies and discusses how effective they were. These studies were done scientifically, with controls and tested and measured the results. I have another book that gives you the ten most effective strategies and it is quite eye opening. These books revolutionized my teaching, why should I reinvent the wheel? Why can’t I just take what they discovered and apply it to my teaching? It is a “perfect work” a “once for all” sacrifice. These studies do not specifically apply to my subject, so I must adjust and modify them. I was not directed to do this so if it doesn’t work my review will suffer. There was another teacher that I worked with. This teacher did exactly what the administrators asked her to do. They loved her lessons. She got top marks on her observations. They held her up as an example of what to do. I would visit her class and observe several times a year. We both taught the same subject. Yet despite this I never felt to adopt anything that she did in my classes. Her results were average whereas my students were scoring far above average.
8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Can you imagine how revolutionary this was? If you do away with the sacrifices and offerings you do away with the Jewish religion. No wonder they wanted to kill Him.
We need to measure our work by the results. Many years ago Bush passed the “No Child Left Behind” act and all teachers needed to use data to drive instruction. That meant we had to look at the results to determine what to do. Failing schools were closed. Administrators began telling teachers how to teach and the approach was called “teaching to the test” and it was a dismal failure. Most school administrators do not have a background in math and particularly statistical analysis. Instead of saying “hey I better study up on this” they just assumed they knew what to do. They would look at your results on the exam, pick out 10% of the questions that the students did poorest on and tell the teachers to spend more time on these. Imagine a teacher is “building a house” over the course of the year. You lay a foundation, you put up the structure, you enclose it by putting the roof on, the doors in and the windows in. You connect the electricity, plumbing, do finish work, paint the walls, lay carpet and you are done. Now the student who gets 100 on the exam has a finished house. Others have a house that is almost finished, but can be lived in, they got an 80 or a 75. Still others have a house that has windows, doors, and a roof. They got a 65. What do you think will be the thing that most students didn’t complete? Maybe they didn’t lay the carpet, maybe they didn’t paint all the walls. So the administrator's instruction was like telling the teacher to spend more time on painting walls and laying carpet?! That is idiotic. But many teachers dutifully did what they were told, got horrible results and then said “teaching to the test doesn’t work”. No, assuming you know statistical analysis when you have never studied it, that doesn’t work. Any reasonable person would look at this process and say “how can we do it more efficiently so that more students will get a house that is at least 65% done or 80% done or 90% done? If the problem is that too many students are failing the exam the answer might be to skip teaching about painting walls and laying carpet altogether. Those lessons don’t help anyone get to 65% they only help you get to 100% from 95%. This is what Jesus Christ did, He made a sacrifice “once for all”. That was the most efficient, the most effective.
Quick review of where we are. There are two kinds of covenants, two kinds of priesthood, two kinds of law. If this was just talking about Israel and the Jewish nation it would be out of place here in the New Testament. I will use my experience as a teacher to demonstrate these two kinds of laws, but it applies to any work that you do and it applies to governments. There are essentially two systems. In the one system the vast majority of people are “slaves” or “employees” who do what they are told. In the other system you are “the boss”. You walk by faith, you need to pray for wisdom. The ministry of Paul gives us the elemental teachings of the new covenant, James pushes us to maturity. In the elemental teaching you are justified by faith, as you go to maturity faith without works is dead.
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
The offerings were “an annual reminder”. There is a regular “reset” where you must start over and over. This is because this system is not sustainable. We see this with all the empires. Egypt, Rome, Greece, Meso Persian, Babylonian, etc. They all fell and became dust. There is a fundamental shortcoming in all these empires, they treat people like they are bulls and goats; beasts of burden.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
This is exactly the same way I feel. Every year the school system has professional developments and a variety of activities to improve the experience for students and yet it seems to me like a hamster wheel. They don’t actually achieve anything. You would think that the goal would be simple, say to improve our test results from the 50th percentile to the top 10 percent. Every year we make small but incremental improvements toward that goal. Perhaps we have 4 or 5 different initiatives, we carefully monitor their impact. If three had a positive impact then we roll out those three schoolwide and come up with three new initiatives to test. In a school with 40 teachers you find the four who showed the most improvement and have them discuss what works and push those strategies out to everyone else if they are practical. But that is not what they do. Instead it is as though every year we are “reinventing the wheel”. Never once in all my experience in the public school have we had teachers at our school step forward and say this is what we did last year that was very effective. Now that is not completely true, we do have meetings and teachers do discuss things they are doing that are effective and this in turn does get shared with the whole school. But they will ask things like “what did you do last week that worked well”. There is no rigorous testing it is all anecdotal, and you can’t tie that to a goal like improving the results on the exam because how do you know if what you did last week will have a positive impact on an exam that is six months away? They treat the teachers like they are dumb beasts of burden. The Lord looked at this situation and said this is not what God desires. God wants results, He wants a perfect work. So what did the Lord have? He had a body, He had a life, instead of giving a cow or goat He gave himself. He put His life on the line. When you become an employee you agree to become a beast of burden, but when you start your own business you put yourself on the line.
7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’”
I have a book that summarizes 400 different pedagogical studies and discusses how effective they were. These studies were done scientifically, with controls and tested and measured the results. I have another book that gives you the ten most effective strategies and it is quite eye opening. These books revolutionized my teaching, why should I reinvent the wheel? Why can’t I just take what they discovered and apply it to my teaching? It is a “perfect work” a “once for all” sacrifice. These studies do not specifically apply to my subject, so I must adjust and modify them. I was not directed to do this so if it doesn’t work my review will suffer. There was another teacher that I worked with. This teacher did exactly what the administrators asked her to do. They loved her lessons. She got top marks on her observations. They held her up as an example of what to do. I would visit her class and observe several times a year. We both taught the same subject. Yet despite this I never felt to adopt anything that she did in my classes. Her results were average whereas my students were scoring far above average.
8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Can you imagine how revolutionary this was? If you do away with the sacrifices and offerings you do away with the Jewish religion. No wonder they wanted to kill Him.
We need to measure our work by the results. Many years ago Bush passed the “No Child Left Behind” act and all teachers needed to use data to drive instruction. That meant we had to look at the results to determine what to do. Failing schools were closed. Administrators began telling teachers how to teach and the approach was called “teaching to the test” and it was a dismal failure. Most school administrators do not have a background in math and particularly statistical analysis. Instead of saying “hey I better study up on this” they just assumed they knew what to do. They would look at your results on the exam, pick out 10% of the questions that the students did poorest on and tell the teachers to spend more time on these. Imagine a teacher is “building a house” over the course of the year. You lay a foundation, you put up the structure, you enclose it by putting the roof on, the doors in and the windows in. You connect the electricity, plumbing, do finish work, paint the walls, lay carpet and you are done. Now the student who gets 100 on the exam has a finished house. Others have a house that is almost finished, but can be lived in, they got an 80 or a 75. Still others have a house that has windows, doors, and a roof. They got a 65. What do you think will be the thing that most students didn’t complete? Maybe they didn’t lay the carpet, maybe they didn’t paint all the walls. So the administrator's instruction was like telling the teacher to spend more time on painting walls and laying carpet?! That is idiotic. But many teachers dutifully did what they were told, got horrible results and then said “teaching to the test doesn’t work”. No, assuming you know statistical analysis when you have never studied it, that doesn’t work. Any reasonable person would look at this process and say “how can we do it more efficiently so that more students will get a house that is at least 65% done or 80% done or 90% done? If the problem is that too many students are failing the exam the answer might be to skip teaching about painting walls and laying carpet altogether. Those lessons don’t help anyone get to 65% they only help you get to 100% from 95%. This is what Jesus Christ did, He made a sacrifice “once for all”. That was the most efficient, the most effective.
Rebellions in the Bible
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
When we look at what is happening in the world today it doesn't make sense because it seems everyone is being weakened. The US is obviously under attack, but so is Europe. Russia is obviously an aggressor and yet it seems at best they will get a pyrrhic victory. A year ago China was ascendant but now with the collapse of their economy and the plague is sweeping through the country it seems they also are primed to crash and burn. Pakistan, Sri Lanka and a host of other countries are already in total collapse. But when you read these verses it is Lucifer against the nations, he weakens the nations in an attempt to "be like the most high".
Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
This is probably the single biggest rebellion of the people of God against God recorded in the Bible. When Paul says that the rebellion comes first before the coming of the Lord and our being gathered to Him this should be the primary example. Before the children of Israel entered the Good land, this rebellion came first. Not only so but this rebellion took place about forty years prior to the children of Israel entering the good land and in the last 40 years we have seen a very clear split as many Christian churches do not consider the Bible to be the ultimate authority in some respects, most notably with the LGBTQ+ community and also with pastors needing to be the husband of one wife. There are supposedly Christian denominations now that are "returning to Egypt" with their new age, pagan and occult worship mingled with their Christian worship. Obviously this process began at the time of the apostles, and was certainly evident in the Catholic church. Shortly after the wheat was planted by the Lord Satan came in an planted tares. However, for two thousand years they have grown together and it is only recently that the rebellion has been so open and brazen.
This reminds me of King Saul rebelling against killing all the Amalekites in 1Samuel 15, deciding to keep the "good things" and only kill the bad. We have definitely seen this kind of rebellion with Pastors and religious leaders using their own opinion and idea of what things they need to obey and what things they can ignore.
Ezekiel 20:8-9 says the Israelites would not listen to God and would not cast away the detestable thing. They did not forsake their idols from Egypt. How many Christians are like this, they are very clear that they are a believer in Christ and yet at the same time they refer to some football or basketball team like it is an idol, or they love their worldly music, or their Hollywood actors.
Hosea 8:1 is worse. Here they are likened to an adulterous wife that transgressed the covenant and rebelled against God's law. If you fail to keep the Lord's commandment, but you know it, you confess it, you repent of it, you ask God for mercy, that is not rebelling. To rebel against the law is to openly say we will not keep this law. The Bible says that the pastor needs to be the husband of one wife. They openly rebel against that.
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
When we look at what is happening in the world today it doesn't make sense because it seems everyone is being weakened. The US is obviously under attack, but so is Europe. Russia is obviously an aggressor and yet it seems at best they will get a pyrrhic victory. A year ago China was ascendant but now with the collapse of their economy and the plague is sweeping through the country it seems they also are primed to crash and burn. Pakistan, Sri Lanka and a host of other countries are already in total collapse. But when you read these verses it is Lucifer against the nations, he weakens the nations in an attempt to "be like the most high".
Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
This is probably the single biggest rebellion of the people of God against God recorded in the Bible. When Paul says that the rebellion comes first before the coming of the Lord and our being gathered to Him this should be the primary example. Before the children of Israel entered the Good land, this rebellion came first. Not only so but this rebellion took place about forty years prior to the children of Israel entering the good land and in the last 40 years we have seen a very clear split as many Christian churches do not consider the Bible to be the ultimate authority in some respects, most notably with the LGBTQ+ community and also with pastors needing to be the husband of one wife. There are supposedly Christian denominations now that are "returning to Egypt" with their new age, pagan and occult worship mingled with their Christian worship. Obviously this process began at the time of the apostles, and was certainly evident in the Catholic church. Shortly after the wheat was planted by the Lord Satan came in an planted tares. However, for two thousand years they have grown together and it is only recently that the rebellion has been so open and brazen.
This reminds me of King Saul rebelling against killing all the Amalekites in 1Samuel 15, deciding to keep the "good things" and only kill the bad. We have definitely seen this kind of rebellion with Pastors and religious leaders using their own opinion and idea of what things they need to obey and what things they can ignore.
Ezekiel 20:8-9 says the Israelites would not listen to God and would not cast away the detestable thing. They did not forsake their idols from Egypt. How many Christians are like this, they are very clear that they are a believer in Christ and yet at the same time they refer to some football or basketball team like it is an idol, or they love their worldly music, or their Hollywood actors.
Hosea 8:1 is worse. Here they are likened to an adulterous wife that transgressed the covenant and rebelled against God's law. If you fail to keep the Lord's commandment, but you know it, you confess it, you repent of it, you ask God for mercy, that is not rebelling. To rebel against the law is to openly say we will not keep this law. The Bible says that the pastor needs to be the husband of one wife. They openly rebel against that.
Audible Voice, Innocence Lost & Obituary 01/17/2023
https://rumble.com/v25yg0m-audible-voice-innocence-lost-and-obituary-01172023.html
He interprets the fall of America in one hour as referring to a seven year period. I do not interpret it that way and he is the first that I have heard from that interprets it that way. The impression I get is people are amazed at how quickly the US falls, and the Bible never exaggerates, so 1 hour is literally 1 60 minute period in time.
He also doesn't see the use of terms like "now" to refer to now, but rather the next six years. I on the other hand interpret the rapture, rise of the antichrist with the implementation of the mark of the beast, and the fall of the US as the "new" Babylon to all take place at the outset of the 70th week for Israel. I also think as a best interpretation that the 70th week begins this Nisan.
https://rumble.com/v25yg0m-audible-voice-innocence-lost-and-obituary-01172023.html
He interprets the fall of America in one hour as referring to a seven year period. I do not interpret it that way and he is the first that I have heard from that interprets it that way. The impression I get is people are amazed at how quickly the US falls, and the Bible never exaggerates, so 1 hour is literally 1 60 minute period in time.
He also doesn't see the use of terms like "now" to refer to now, but rather the next six years. I on the other hand interpret the rapture, rise of the antichrist with the implementation of the mark of the beast, and the fall of the US as the "new" Babylon to all take place at the outset of the 70th week for Israel. I also think as a best interpretation that the 70th week begins this Nisan.
What does God mean by Few days?
Psalm 109: Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
This word translated "few" means little, slight, a tiny amount. Judas betrayed the Lord on Passover night, and then after seeing the Lord crucified returned the silver and hung himself. For him, "let his days be few" referred to less than a week.
Genesis 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
This is a different word and we would probably translate it more accurately as "one". It seemed but one day. I don't think that is an appropriate understanding of this word "few" even though this is what Stan is looking at, thinking that 7 years is but "few" days.
Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
There is no word "few" in the Hebrew, it was put in to explain what is being said. They were asking that she stay with them a "period" of days. A week is "period of days", a month is a "period of days", a season is a "period of days". Again, I don't think this is what the Lord said, He didn't say "a short period" or "a season".
Psalm 109: Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
This word translated "few" means little, slight, a tiny amount. Judas betrayed the Lord on Passover night, and then after seeing the Lord crucified returned the silver and hung himself. For him, "let his days be few" referred to less than a week.
Genesis 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
This is a different word and we would probably translate it more accurately as "one". It seemed but one day. I don't think that is an appropriate understanding of this word "few" even though this is what Stan is looking at, thinking that 7 years is but "few" days.
Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
There is no word "few" in the Hebrew, it was put in to explain what is being said. They were asking that she stay with them a "period" of days. A week is "period of days", a month is a "period of days", a season is a "period of days". Again, I don't think this is what the Lord said, He didn't say "a short period" or "a season".
Behold a sower went forth to sow
Matthew 13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
The Lord is very clear in His ministry that this is the beginning of the season, His ministry was a sower going forth to sow. His crucifixion was His being sown into the ground.
From Adam to Abraham was 2,000 years. From Abraham to Jesus was 2,000 years. This shows that 2,000 years is a reasonable amount of time by God's reckoning for a harvest.
Many of the scoffers try to depict the Bible and the NT as saying the Lord's second coming would take place at the time of the apostles. That is not what the NT teaches. Rather the NT teaches we should walk with the Lord's second coming in mind. You should live and behave knowing that one day you will appear before the Lord to be judged for the things done in this life. But Jesus was sowing the seeds, Paul also said that he "planted".
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
This is what we have seen these last two thousand years. I would point out that every field must deal with the birds of the air trying to steal the seeds. Every field has a "way side" where they drive the plow to and from the field. Every field must deal with weeds trying to choke out the crop. A field full of weeds is because the farmer is negligent. You can put up a wall that prevents people from driving through your field with a plow, you can be out there pulling weeds every day. Get rid of the TV, get rid of video games and you will be amazed at how much time you have to spend in the word of God. He who has ears to hear means this word is to everyone, if you want your heart to be good ground then you must do a few things. Pray over your house and your field that Satan and his minions cannot steal the word.
Matthew 13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
The Lord is very clear in His ministry that this is the beginning of the season, His ministry was a sower going forth to sow. His crucifixion was His being sown into the ground.
From Adam to Abraham was 2,000 years. From Abraham to Jesus was 2,000 years. This shows that 2,000 years is a reasonable amount of time by God's reckoning for a harvest.
Many of the scoffers try to depict the Bible and the NT as saying the Lord's second coming would take place at the time of the apostles. That is not what the NT teaches. Rather the NT teaches we should walk with the Lord's second coming in mind. You should live and behave knowing that one day you will appear before the Lord to be judged for the things done in this life. But Jesus was sowing the seeds, Paul also said that he "planted".
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
This is what we have seen these last two thousand years. I would point out that every field must deal with the birds of the air trying to steal the seeds. Every field has a "way side" where they drive the plow to and from the field. Every field must deal with weeds trying to choke out the crop. A field full of weeds is because the farmer is negligent. You can put up a wall that prevents people from driving through your field with a plow, you can be out there pulling weeds every day. Get rid of the TV, get rid of video games and you will be amazed at how much time you have to spend in the word of God. He who has ears to hear means this word is to everyone, if you want your heart to be good ground then you must do a few things. Pray over your house and your field that Satan and his minions cannot steal the word.
